Reading Festival sells out after organisers confirm it will go ahead in August

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is moving from October 2021 to April of 2022, two industry sources with knowledge of the situation tell Variety.

Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately cancelled by the pandemic, will preside over this year’s jury instead.

It is truly beginning to feel like we’re in a time loop. It was only a year ago when the Cannes Film Festival announced that Spike Lee would be the Jury President for the film festival.

Chris Willman Music Writer“Life Is Beautiful” is hopeful — very hopeful — that life will be carefree for festival-goers by September, when Las Vegas will host what could be the first major post-quarantining music festival in the West. Ticket buyers returned that optimism in major numbers by selling out three-day passes for the annual festival “in record time” Friday, organizers reported.The possibly immunized herd is set to gather Sept.

Bethenny Frankel is apologizing to Meghan Markle after dissing the Duchess ahead of Markle and Prince Harry's tell-all interview.  star took to Twitter on Sunday after watching the sit-down to empathize with the former actress and say sorry if what she said hurt or offended Markle.«I watched M & H sit down. Emotional distress & racism must feel suffocating & powerless.

direct to your inboxA Tameside GP has said it is ‘shocking and disappointing’ that two of his trainee doctors have refused to have the Covid-19 vaccine.The revelation came as Dr Asad Ali, who co-chairs the Tameside and Glossop clinical commissioning group, proposed the creation of a coronavirus vaccine hotline in the area to give advice to people with doubts about the jab.Speaking at a meeting of the primary care committee on Wednesday afternoon, Dr Ali said this would also take pressure off GP

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has admitted that he lied to investors who pumped millions of dollars into the infamous Bahamas event.McFarland made the bold admission in an unauthorised interview from behind bars with radio host Jordan Harbinger for the Dumpster Fyre podcast – which has landed him in solitary confinement.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for

Fyre Festival could’ve been criminally fun. In a new jailhouse interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who put millions into funding his notorious 2017 luxury retreat failure — but blamed an impossible timeline for the scam he’s now doing time for co-organizing. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview which

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFollowing its acquisition of select Beach Boys assets last month, Irving Azoff’s new Iconic Artist Group has made another move into the lucrative catalog acquisition marketplace by partnering with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby.

Reading Festival 2021 taking place this summer.Festival organisers responded to last week’s publication of the UK government’s ‘roadmap’ out of coronavirus lockdown – which is hoping for a total lifting of restrictions by June 21 at the very earliest – by confirming that they intend to stage the festival as planned from August 27-29.Tickets for Reading 2021 sold out following that announcement, which was made last Wednesday (February 24).However, Reading Borough Council has since cast doubt on

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe latest music festival to give up on 2021 is Spain’s popular Primavera Sound Barcelona, which called off this year’s installment due to the pandemic. Tickets can be transferred to the 2022 edition, the lineup for which will be revealed on June 2; refunds will be available after that date.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“The Mandalorian” star Simon Kassianides is set to make his feature screenwriting debut.The actor, who plays Axe Woves on the hit Disney Plus Star Wars series, has sold the psychological thriller “The Weatherman” to U.K.-based production house Raw.The film is said to be female-led and in the vein of Christopher Nolan’s “Memento,” with elements of the Stephen King classic “Misery.” Raw’s notable credits include the heist drama “American Animals” and the

direct to your inboxAn Asda worker has become a viral sensation after he made a life-changing decision for one shopper. Employee Michael, who works at the Asda Eastlands store in Manchester, has been hailed a 'hero' for what he did.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLive Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K.