‘Lewis Capaldi has done so much for the Tourette’s community - Glastonbury gave me goosebumps’

The 1975 have stepped into the breach to replace Lewis Capaldi in his headline slots at the Leeds and Reading Festivals. The Wilmslow lads, who are good friends with Capaldi, announced the news to their fans late last night, while on stage at the TRNSMT Festival in the Scottish singer’s hometown of Glasgow.

Edith Bowman has revealed she spoke to her two sons about mental health after watching Lewis Capaldi struggling at Glastonbury.

Music fans still have time to buy a ticket for Scotland’s biggest festival, which begins on Friday.

Official Charts Company‘s rundown of the 40 biggest tracks of the past six months is Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’, the lead single from the singer’s eighth album ‘Endless Summer Vacation’.The track gave Cyrus her first UK chart-topper in almost a decade, and achieved a 10-week stay at Number One.‘Flowers’ shifted 1.2million UK chart units overall since its release in January, according to data obtained by the Official Charts Company. The single racked up more than 147million streams and in excess of 80,000 downloads, making it the most-streamed and most-downloaded song of 2023 so far.Additionally, ‘Flowers’ claimed the biggest week of any track this year – pushing 126,000 chart units during its second week at Number One.Cyrus also scored the longest-running UK Number One by a female artist, equalling the 10-week stint of Whitney Houston‘s ‘I Will Always Love You’ and Rihanna‘s ‘Umbrella’.Coming in at Number Two on the Official Charts Company‘s biggest songs of 2023 so far is ‘Escapism’ by RAYE. The 070 Shake-featuring single gave the London singer her first UK Number One in January.RAYE told NME at the time that the feat felt like the “ultimate validation” as an independent artist.

Madonna has been forced to postpone her global tour after falling ill and needing to stay in intensive care for a few days.

Following his Glastonbury performance last weekend, Lewis Capaldi has announced that he is cancelling all upcoming live shows in order to concentrate on improving his physical and mental health.Earlier this month, Capaldi cancelled several dates in the UK and Europe, saying that he needed time to “rest and recover” in order “to be at my best and ready for Glastonbury”. During a well-received performance at the festival on Saturday, the musician nonetheless visibly experienced ‘ticks’ as a result of his Tourettes syndrome – with which he was diagnosed last year – and later in the set began to lose his voice.In a statement posted to social media yesterday, he told fans: “The fact that this probably won’t come as a surprise doesn’t make it any easier to write, but I’m very sorry to let you know I’m going to be taking a break from touring for the foreseeable future”.“I used to be able to enjoy every second of shows like this and I’d hoped three weeks away would sort me out”, he continued.

Later this week, Castlefield Bowl will welcome thousands of music fans for the 2023 edition of Sounds of the City. Every year, the open-air music series brings together some of the biggest names in rock, indie and pop - and this year is no exception.

Lewis Capaldi is being 'supported' by his loved-ones including his girlfriend Ellie MacDowall during his career break.

Guns N' Roses musicians have been spotted meeting fans in Glasgow ahead of their gig later today.

Rock band Foo Fighters have announced that they will be heading to Glasgow next summer as part of their Everything Or Nothing At All Tour.

Lewis Capaldi has broken his silence following his performance at Glastonbury on Saturday and has announced that he will be taking a break from touring 'for the foreseeable future'.

Maisie Peters is casting a spell over the Official Albums Chart this week, with The Good Witch on track to become her first Number 1. 

Elton John, Rina Sawayama, Rick Astley and more have spiked after their performances at Glastonbury this weekend.According to a new Spotify round-up of this year’s Glastonbury tracks and artists that was shared with NME, streams of John’s songs increased 294 per cent in the UK in the hour after his career-spanning headline set on the Pyramid Stage yesterday (June 25).Gun N’ Roses‘ opening track of their headline set on the Pyramid stage on Saturday (June 24), ‘It’s So Easy’, saw a 300 per cent increase in streams in the UK on Sunday.Meanwhile, Friday (June 23) headliners Arctic Monkeys, were identified as the artists with the most tracks on user-generated Glastonbury playlists.Rick Astley’s debut Glastonbury performance was also followed by a 294 per cent spike in steams of his song ‘Dance’ in the UK.

Lewis Capaldi‘s set at Glastonbury 2023 has been described as “amazingly powerful” by the mother of a teenager with Tourette’s.While onstage on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday (June 24), Capaldi was noticeably experiencing vocal difficulties, and exhibiting tics from his widely-publicised Tourette’s.Speaking to the PA, Laura Hummersone, whose 19-year-old son Harry has Tourette’s, said that the performance and visibility of the condition was “amazingly powerful” as the pair watched at home on TV.“Watching Lewis yesterday, in that moment, I think he did more for Tourette’s than any charity or education on the topic in all the times I’ve known about Tourette’s,” she said. “I was in tears.”She added: “[Capaldi] was openly ticing and my son tries to suppress his most of the time when he’s out, which means that when he comes home, he has these huge tic attacks where he can barely do anything.“Some of the tics that Lewis was doing were tics that my son does on a regular daily basis, jerking the head.”Hummersone went on to hail the “acceptance, tolerance, understanding, empathy and compassion which the crowd showed yesterday,” calling it “phenomenal”.“I wanted Harry to see the love from that crowd,” she added.

Elton John raised the roof at Glastonbury last night in what could be the Rocketman singer’s last ever performance, and he was watched by more than 7M viewers on the BBC.

Lewis Capaldi was excited to headline Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, June 24, before his voice cracked in the middle of “Someone You Loved.”

Dave joined fellow rapper Central Cee onstage at Glastonbury Festival 2023 during the rapper’s set yesterday (June 24).During Central Cee’s set at The Other Stage on day four of Glastonbury, he brought out Dave to perform their hit collab ‘Sprinter’ together. The track was the penultimate song on Central Cee’s setlist, parked in between ‘Day In The Life’ and set closer ‘Doja’.Watch the moment below.Elsewhere in his set, Central Cee performed hits like ‘Khabib’, ‘Let Go’, ‘One Up’ and ‘Obsessed With You’ among others.Check out Central Cee’s full Glastonbury 2023 setlist below. ‘Sprinter’, which released earlier this month (June 2), marked the first time the two London rappers have collaborated on a track.

UK chart-topper Lewis Capaldi emotionally thanked the Glastonbury crowd for helping him through his last number after he struggled with Tourette’s syndrome.

Last night, Lewis Capaldi took to the iconic Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury for his first show in three weeks, after taking some time off to focus on his mental health.The 26 year old had previously cancelled all commitments leading up to the festival, citing that “the last few months have been full on both mentally and physically.” While also revealing in his emotional Instagram post that he hasn’t “been home properly since Christmas” and that he’s “struggling to get to grips with it all.” Lewis previously opened up about his mental health and Tourette’s diagnosis - a neurological condition that causes involuntary movements and tics - in his recent Netflix documentary, How I’m Feeling Now, which showed fans a more serious side to the happy go lucky Glaswegian musician. But upon returning to the spotlight ahead of his major Glastonbury slot, Lewis revealed that he had been “sh*t scared” to take to the stage, and that he’ll be taking another break following the festival.

Bette Midler in, has died. He was 86.It was Midler who announced the tragic news on Friday night, tweeting, «The great and beloved Frederic Forrest has died. Thank you to all of his fans and friends for all their support these last few months.