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Blossoms and Rick Astley have announced they’ll be teaming up for a pair of shows that will celebrate the songs of The Smiths.It comes after Blossoms surprised fans during the first of three nights at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum last night (September 13) by inviting Astley on stage to run through a selection of Smiths covers.Taking place at Manchester’s Albert Hall on October 8 and London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on October 9, the shows will see Blossoms become Astley’s backing band for a full

The Magic Gang begin a run of live dates this week as support for Blossoms, and the band have spoken to NME about the gigs and a new EP they have in the works.Tonight (August 30), the Brighton four-piece perform at Hull’s Bonus Arena to kick off the first of a handful of rescheduled dates on Blossoms’ UK tour which was postponed after its Bournemouth date in March last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.“We’re more keen than ever to connect with people,” frontman Jack Kaye told NME at this

Blossoms release their new ’70s-inspired single ‘Care For’, the band have spoken to NME about the track and shared a few details about their next album.Written in 2019 and recorded last year during lockdown with frequent collaborators James Skelly of The Coral and Rich Turvey, the Stockport band’s latest offering comes as the first taster of new material following their acclaimed third album, ‘Foolish Loving Spaces’.“It was literally the first one I wrote after the last record,” frontman Tom

Blossoms have shared a snippet of their brand new single, ‘Care For’, which is released tomorrow (August 17).The Stockport band, who released their third album ‘Foolish Loving Spaces‘ last year, look to be teasing what might appear on a forthcoming new album with the song.‘Care For’ will premiere as Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds show (6pm-10pm), hosted tomorrow by Yungblud.

George Ezra has announced a massive London show for 2022 – he will play Finsbury Park next summer.Blossoms and Holly Humberstone are set to provide support at the show, with “many more” artists set to be announced on the line-up.The show, set for July 17 next year, will be the singer’s first show since the coronavirus pandemic, and his biggest headline gig to date.“Hello, it’s been a while – I know that, I feel it – but I’ve got some exciting news,” Ezra told fans in a video recorded at Finsbury

Blossoms have surprised a group of school kids in Stockport by giving an impromptu performance at their leavers day festival.On Monday (July 26), students at St Thomas’ Church of England Primary School in Heaton, Stockport, were treated to a gig from the ‘Your Girlfriend’ hitmakers, along with a Q&A afterwards.It comes after Year 6 pupils had written a letter to the band – who are local to the area, with all five of the band members hailing from Stockport – a few weeks ago asking if they’d

Blossoms have announced details of their own beer in collaboration with Chicago-based brewery Goose Island.‘SK BREW TAKE 2’ is the band’s second collaboration with Goose Island, following their ‘SK BREW’ from 2019 which was brewed around their special London ‘Hop Party’ gig.Of the new beer – proceeds from which will go to the Stagehand fund to support live crew affected by COVID-19 – Blossoms said: “We’re excited to announce our collaboration with Goose Island – our new beer SK Brew Take 2! It’s

Zuzu is among the acts to have contributed to a new cover of The Farm‘s ‘All Together Now’ in aid of the Music Venues Trust’s #SaveOurVenues campaign – you can listen to it and read NME‘s interview with Zuzu below.The Liverpool singer-songwriter, who opened this month’s Sefton park COVID pilot, joined The Lathums, Lottery Winners, Trampolene and more in recording a new version of the 1990 classic at Elevator Studios.“There are so many cool musicians from Liverpool involved as well as it being

Zuzu is among the acts to have contributed to a new cover of The Farm’s ‘All Together Now’ in aid of the Music Venues Trust’s #SaveOurVenues campaign – you can listen to it and read NME‘s interview with Zuzu below.The Liverpool singer-songwriter, who opened this month’s Sefton park COVID pilot, joined The Lathums, Lottery Winners, Trampolene and more in recording a new version of the 1990 classic at Elevator Studios.“There’s so many cool musicians from Liverpool involved as well as it being for

Blossoms have told NME that they have completed work on their fourth album.The Stockport band spoke to NME backstage at the weekend’s COVID pilot gig at Sefton Park, where they discussed progress on the follow-up to 2020’s acclaimed ‘Foolish Loving Spaces’.“Yeah, we’ve done it, so it’s recorded and we’re sorting all the other stuff out now, like the artwork and all that sort of stuff,” frontman Tom Ogden told NME.

Blossoms covered a classic from The Beatles as part of their historic set in Liverpool last night (May 2) – watch footage below.Part of a weekend of pilot events in Liverpool this weekend, the city’s Sefton Park played host to 5,000 people – it usually holds 7,500 – with no requirement for attendees to socially distance, wear a face mask or have a vaccine passport to get into the venue.See footage, photos and reaction to the gig – which followed a two-day clubbing event in the city on Friday and

Blossoms‘ COVID-19 pilot gig in Liverpool has been shared online, showing what the return of live events could look like.It’s the second of a two-day event – alongside a clubbing gig that took place yesterday (May 1) – that doesn’t require attendees to socially distance, wear a face mask or have a vaccine passport to get into the venue.Liverpool’s Sefton Park is playing host to 5,000 people – it usually holds 7,500 – and the only requirement to attend was a negative lateral flow test produced

Blossoms, Bombay Bicycle Club and Stereophonics will headline this year’s Y Not Festival – check out the line-up so far below.The event will take place in Pikehall, Derbyshire between July 30 and August 1, returning after a coronavirus-enforced cancellation in 2020.

NME about what fans can expect from the upcoming COVID-19 pilot gig in Liverpool, claiming that fans will be able to “behave as if the pandemic never happened”.This weekend saw the long-awaited announcement of a pilot event for live music,with Blossoms, The Lathums and Zuzu all set to perform to 5,000 fans at Liverpool’s Sefton Park on May 2.With no social-distancing in place and no requirement for masks during the gig, attendees will have to take a lateral flow COVID-19 test at a local testing

coronavirus pilot concert has been announced in Liverpool, with Blossoms set to headline the May event.The gig, dubbed Sefton Park Pilot, comes as part of a host of government-organised pilot events in the lead up to England gradually exiting lockdown by the end of June.5,000 fans will be able to attend the May 2 event in Sefton Park, which normally holds 7,500 gig-goers.

Blossoms, Noel Gallagher and Carl Barât – put on popular late-night events across the UK, and have previously run new music stages at Isle Of Wight Festival, Leeds Festival and YNot.Now, This Feeling has partnered with ADA (part of Warner Music Group) to set up its new label – which has been inspired by the likes of Creation Records, Rough Trade and Fierce Panda.The venture will be headed up by This Feeling director Mikey Jonns alongside Fear PR’s Katie Gwyther, who’s worked for major artists

Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai (“In The Mood For Love”) moves secretly and at his own pace, often taking several years between projects. And per usual, the road to his latest film has been circuitous and perhaps filled with twists and turns and misinformation—perhaps some of it lost in translation or some of it warped from the notoriously controlling Chinese government, who knows.