Newly renovated music venue Forum Birmingham is launching this summer

COVID pilot test events for clubbing and a small festival set-up featuring Blossoms, The Lathums and ZuZu.With the current roadmap showing May 17 as the penultimate stage easing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the UK before a planned return to full capacity social activity on June 21, the Music Venue Trust surveyed all of its English members to discover what a summer of live music might look like in grassroots independent gig spaces.Their survey found that that over 2,534 socially-distanced

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Mike Tindall has shared the dramatic details of helping to deliver wife Zara’s baby on their bathroom floor. Zara, who is the Queen’s granddaughter, gave birth to her third child in March - a boy called Lucas - who made an unexpectedly quick arrival at home.

Mike Tindall has revealed the Royal Family were all told “you need to leave” at the end of Prince Philip’s funeral, leaving him unable to comfort the Queen.The former England rugby player spoke to Good Morning Britain on Friday about having been one of the 30 mourners allowed to attend the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.

The Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley StudioCanal feature The Last Letter From Your Lover will hit Netflix on July 23 and in select territories.

Vivienne Chow Inside a makeshift cafe set at Hong Kong’s luxurious Rosewood Hotel, local actor-producer Josie Ho sits across from British actor Julian Sands. Both are giving director Mike Figgis their full attention as he explains the scene that they are going to film.What was said could not be heard from afar, despite the set being unusually quiet.

Here’s your first look at Emma Mackey – BAFTA-nominated today for Sex Education – in new UK feature Emily, the origin story biopic of Wuthering Heights scribe Emily Bronte.

Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer‘s huge Hella Mega Tour has been rescheduled to 2022 – check out the new dates below.The jaunt, which saw its opening leg in Asia axed due to coronavirus concerns, was due to hit the UK, Europe and US last summer before heading to Australia and New Zealand in November.After all dates were pushed back due to ongoing pandemic-related restrictions, new dates were announced for summer 2021 in the UK and Europe, along with US dates also set for summer.While the US

Chinese pop music superstar JJ Lin has signed with UTA for U.S. and European representation in all areas.

Royal Blood frontman Mike Kerr has spoken out about the need to normalise the idea of sobriety – especially in the UK and the music industry.The duo were speaking to NME for the latest Big Read cover story, when Kerr opened up about how he got sober in 2019 after a period “destroying himself” through drink and drugs as a result of the heady lifestyle of touring.As well as discussing in-depth about his decision to go sober, Kerr also talked about the support and information that was available to

Slowthai, Bicep and Honey Dijon have all been announced for the re-opening of the newly renovated Forum Birmingham.The city centre venue, located at 52-54 Dale End, has previously operated under the names of The Ballroom, the Hummingbird and the Carling Academy Birmingham.

DC‘s 2019 film Joker is to be screened in UK concert venues with a live orchestra playing composer Hildur Guðnadóttir’s award-winning score.The event is part of a UK tour dubbed ‘Joker – LiveIn Concert’ and it will kick off at London’s Eventim Apollo on September 26.The tour will also call at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Cardiff.

His final wishes. Zara Tindall‘s husband, Mike Tindall, thinks the British royal family planned the “perfect” sendoff for the late Prince Philip.