Slowthai announces intimate UK tour and shares video for new single ‘VEX’

Ladyhawke has shared her new single ‘Guilty Love’, which features BROODS’ Georgia Nott – you can hear the track below.The song follows on from December’s ‘River’ collaboration between Ladyhawke (AKA Pip Brown) and PNAU, and is a preview of the New Zealand artist’s forthcoming new album, which is due later this year.Speaking about ‘Guilty Love’, Ladyhawke explained: “‘Guilty Love’ came about after some writing sessions with Tommy English in Los Angeles.

Circa Waves have confirmed details of their rescheduled UK tour, which will now take place in the summer.The band had been hoping to tour last year in support of their most recent album ‘Sad Happy’, which was released in March 2020.

Rishi Sunak has outlined his Budget to MPs in the Commons on Wednesday as the government seeks to recover from the huge financial cost of the pandemic.The Chancellor said it has fundamentally altered our way of lives and the Budget was intended to be a three-part plan to protect jobs and livelihoods of British people.The Covid-19 support package amounts to £352 billion of support.He said: "Coronavirus has caused one of the largest, most comprehensive and sustained economic shocks this country

The Staves have announced an extensive run of tour dates in support of their latest album ‘Good Woman’.The folk trio will kick off an extensive nationwide run in Swansea in September, and conclude a month later in Bristol.

Mogwai have announced a special homecoming concert to celebrate scoring their first UK Number One album.The Glasgow group’s 10th studio record, ‘As The Love Continues’, beat Ghetts‘ ‘Conflict Of Interest’ to the top spot by 2,900 sales on Friday (February 26).Today (March 2), Mogwai shared news of “a special hometown show” at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on November 7.

direct to your inboxToday Morrisons delighted shoppers after it revealed it had acquired a British business to help feed the nation.The supermarket announced that it has acquired Falfish, a family-owned wholesaler of sustainably sourced seafood based in Cornwall.

Pillow Queens have shared details of their rescheduled UK tour – check out the new dates, including venue changes, below.The band took to Twitter to share the news this week (February 26), writing: “UK TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT! All tickets for original dates still valid. Venues upgraded due to demand.

coronavirus lockdown.While this year’s Glastonbury, set for late June, has already been cancelled, and May’s The Great Escape is going online instead, a number of festivals taking place later in summer revealed this week that they would be going ahead as planned as the government outlined plans for England to gradually exit lockdown by the end of June.Since the announcement, a number of festivals including Reading & Leeds, Green Man and 2000 Trees have all revealed that they now hope to go ahead

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJade Bird is one of the more promising British singer-songwriters to emerge in the past few years, and Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb — who has helmed albums by Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, the Highwomen and many more — is one of Nashville’s reigning producers.

direct to your inboxSupermarket giant Aldi has issued an important message to anybody who buys its eggs.Aldi has committed to remove plastic packaging from its entire egg range.The supermarket is switching from plastic packaging to pulp trays on its remaining egg lines, meaning all egg packaging in England and Wales will be plastic-free by the end of the year. The change will see the removal of 900 tonnes of non-recyclable plastic each year – equating to 24 million pieces of plastic. It’s part

Seasick Steve has announced a string of new UK tour dates that are set to take place later this year.The singer-songwriter’s ‘Just Steve, A Guitar And You Tour’, which will support his latest album, ‘Blues In Mono’, kicks off on November 4 at Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion and ends at Bristol’s Hippodrome on November 17.“I‘m lookin’ forward to coming and playing for y’all,” Steve said of the tour. “Just gonna be me, you and my guitar.

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direct to your inboxA new female lead has been announced for the next series of Bridgerton.The Netflix drama has already been confirmed for a second season following its worldwide success after its release on Christmas Day.With that, Sex Education star Simone Ashley has been cast as the as new lead which we already know will focus on Anthony Bridgerton.The 25-year-old British actress will appear as Kate who is described as "a smart, headstrong young woman who suffers no fools - Anthony