Earth Wind and Fire are headed to the Garden State.On Friday, Dec. 8 and Saturday, Dec.
12.08.2023 - 20:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
In the mid-2000s, on Friday nights in the sweaty basement of Retro Bar, the DJs would play The Walkmen song The Rat.
As the music came to a clattering halt, and the dancefloor would attempt to compose itself, instead of picking a new track they’d just play the same one again.
“[The song] was such a massive part of us,” says Jon Wickstead, one half of Manchester promoters Now Wave and one part of the duo on the decks those nights in the Sackville Street club.
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“When me and Wes [Jones] met, before we started Now Wave, we were going out in Manchester there was nowhere playing the music we wanted to listen to - like The Strokes and The Walkmen - so we started our own club night. The Walkmen was a massive part of that night.
"It used to always culminate with us playing The Rat at Retro Bar, a really dingy small basement, an amazing crowd every time we did it. You’d play it and everyone was going crazy.”
While it might be reductive to introduce The Walkmen with a reference to easily their biggest hit, the presence of the single at the turn of the century is difficult to ignore. Amid the early-2000s white-hot invasion of US acts - documented in Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 oral history Meet Me In the Bathroom - the song was a behemoth.
You’d be forgiven for thinking the 2004 single opened a million doors for the New York band. Yet while peers like The Strokes, Kings of Leon, or the White Stripes, were the toast of the UK, things were a little different for The Walkmen.
Despite widespread critical acclaim and a song Pitchfork named the 20th-best of the 2000s, on this side of the Atlantic something didn’t quite translate.
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Earth Wind and Fire are headed to the Garden State.On Friday, Dec. 8 and Saturday, Dec.
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How well does a couple know each other? That’s the question behind the upcoming drama “Foe,” which chronicles a marriage’s disintegration with a sci-fi twist. And director Garth Davis has two of the UK’s great young acting talents as his stars: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal.
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter New York Film Festival will serve as the world premiere of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s genre-defying series “The Curse,” led by Emma Stone; and Garth Davis’s science-fiction drama “Foe,” starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal. They will screen as part of Spotlight, which Film at Lincoln Center describes as a selection of “significant and surprising films, one-of-a-kind presentations including adventurous portraits of creative minds, one-night only events with live musical accompaniment, bold short films by acclaimed directors, and probing documentaries.” As previously announced, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” will hold its North American premiere on Oct.
Garth Davis’s science-fiction sci-fi drama Foe, directed by Garth Davis (Lion) and starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.
Don’t expect Ed Sheeran to be in the running as the next Super Bowl halftime show performer.
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.Marie’s daughter, Georgiana “Noopy” Guy Rodrigues, recently got candid about the issues that occurred between the former child star, Moore (who died in 2017) and Van Dyke, 97.“Mary was up and coming,” Rodrigues told Fox News. “There was a little bit of conflict between my mother and Mary on the show.” She counted: “Originally, my mother was told that the show was about the writers.
with The Sun last week. Lydon was mainly there to talk about the new PiL album ‘End Of World’, but he got a little bit retrospective as well.“I’ve heard an awful lot of American journalists pretending that the whole punk influence came out of New York”, he mused.
William Earl Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has faced many demons since the release of the 2017 album “Villains”: cancer, divorce, rehab and court battles. And the new Queens record, the just-released “In Times New Roman…,” definitely adds weight to the band’s woozy, bluesy rock — a dour energy far removed from the dancier sound conjured by producer Mark Ronson on “Villains.” “Roman,” self-produced by band founder Homme and one of his strongest QOTSA lineups ever, is one of the rawest and heaviest albums the band has delivered, and during Saturday’s Queens, New York stop of their “The End Is Nero Tour,” they proved that sometimes the new material can be a live standout, even as the band approaches its fourth decade of existence.
Kelsea Ballerini had a super-fan in the audience when she filmed a performance for NBC’s Today Show in New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza on Friday morning (August 11) – boyfriend Chase Stokes.
It's fair to say many of us will be feeling a little hard done by after the weather we've had so far this summer. Manchester may be known for its rain, but it feels like there's been little respite from the grey skies of late.
Aaron Rodgers is one of the best-ever quarterbacks to play in the NFL, but it’s often his antics off the field that get the most people talking.
Film at Lincoln Center has set the 32 features from 18 countries making up the Main Slate of the New York Film Festival, from Cannes prize-winners Anatomy Of A Fall by Justine Triet (Palme d’Or) and Zone Of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (Grand Prix), to the latest by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Hong Sangsoo, Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos and Alice Rohrwacher.
Fairy tales come in all shapes and sizes. Growing up, you’re probably familiar with the Disney brand of fairy-tale.
TidalWave Music Festival is splashing its way into Atlantic City, NJ’s beaches for three days of good times, country jams and huge stars by the water.Just a few of those big name country icons on the lineup include Thomas Rhett, Jelly Roll, Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn and Cole Swindell.Other can’t-miss artists this year include Dustin Lynch, Mitchell Tenpenny, Dylan Scott, Randy Houser and Jo Dee Messina.In total, 34 acts are set to perform over the long weekend.And if you want to see all of them live, last-minute tickets are still available.They’re not that expensive either compared to other major music festivals.At the time of publication, we found some three-day general admission passes going for as low as $194 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $104 before fees.Want to catch the waves at TidalWave?We’ve got everything you need to know and more about the country music extravaganza below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the cheapest single and multi-day passes for the TidalWave Music Festival can be seen here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
First showing in spring of 1988, The Wonder Years was a cultural phenomenon with coming-of-age fans worldwide. It became an instant ratings hit, but there’s one fan-favourite character in particular who has drastically changed. Former child star, Josh Saviano, now 47, looks completely different and in a fun twist of fate, he has ended up working in the same job as his character Paul Pfeiffer did 35 years ago.
recently shuttered “New York, New York,” and wrote the songs for the Disney movies “Moana” and “Encanto,” along with some new tunes for the live-action “The Little Mermaid.” His Tony Award-winning “In the Heights” was turned into a Warner Bros. movie, and he directed Netflix’s musical film “Tick, Tick… Boom!”.As Broadway’s only celebrity composer (who’s not a pop singer), a brand new musical by Miranda would be an instant draw for ticket-buyers and a major coup for the struggling theater business.A premiere date and location are not yet known, though a tryout of the show would be a boon for the Public Theater, which was recently forced to lay off 19% of its staff and slash programming for budgetary reasons.Wherever it lands, he’s picked a fascinating title.Some viewers will remember the culty 1979 film “The Warriors,” which is fun to watch now for its authentic shots of the bad old days of New York City.
Mike «The Situation» Sorrentino is all about that sober life and putting his family first — even when his willpower is put to the test while filming Mike and his wife, Lauren, walked the red carpet at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City on Wednesday at the premiere of 's new episodes, and he spoke with ET's Rachel Smith about his health and his sobriety journey.«I sometimes like think about it, and I'm like, 'Oh my god, like, I can't believe I've come so far.' And then I look in the mirror, and I'm like, 'Wow, I'm just a tough son of a bitch,'» Mike said with a laugh.«I mean there are always temptations, but when you have the secret sauce, when you have the blueprint of what's working, you never fall away from that, you know? You stick to what's working,» he added, «and what's working for me is God and family.»Mike explained how he was «saved» by his loving «beautiful wife,» and he's managed to overcome years of addiction and excess and turn his life around.«I'm a dad first, I'm a husband first, my sobriety [comes] first. And sometimes, when I'm dealing with the cast and those type of those situations, it's not easy,» he said.