Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, are famous in the NFL world, but if you’re new to the sport, you probably don’t know much about the football power couple.
02.11.2023 - 11:19 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Blossoms’ lead singer Tom Ogden revealed that music legend Rick Astley spent the night at his house in Stockport. The Never Gonna Give You Up was visiting the band and ended up staying in Tom’s spare room.
Earlier this year Rick performed with Blossoms at Glastonbury. Tom shared the story on BBC Breakfast after it was announced Blossoms will play a huge gig at Wythenshawe Park next August bank holiday, dubbed the ‘biggest’ headline show of their career.
Ogden told BBC Breakfast: “He slept over at my house, we call it the Rick Astley suite.” Asked if Astley stripped the bed, Ogden replied: “He was great, I can’t remember if he stripped it but it was very well made.”
READ MORE: You're twistin' my masala man - Happy Mondays star Bez puts in shift at favourite Manchester restaurant
READ MORE: Manchester restaurant named best pizza spot in the UK
He continued: “He was in Stockport hanging out with us. And he was like, ‘Where should we stay in Stockport?’, and we’re like, ‘I’m not sure there’s gonna be like… you know, he’s Rick Astley, I don’t know where you want to stay’.
“There’s no Ritz in Stockport. No diss to the hotel in Stockport. I said, ‘Why don’t you stay at my house?’. We’ve got a spare room and he was up for it.
“We made dinner and we had a few drinks and everyone came around. It was lovely.
“We went to The Blossoms pub actually and then all the other pubs started coming like, ‘Why don’t you come to our pub for a drink?’. Word was getting round that Rick Astley’s in town.”
The Stockport-based band announced the news of their homecoming gig at Wythenshawe Park which will take place on Sunday, August 25. They follow in the footsteps of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, who played their first gig at Wythenshawe
Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, are famous in the NFL world, but if you’re new to the sport, you probably don’t know much about the football power couple.
Valerie Wu Intern AMC’s “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” featuring the return of beloved characters Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) from the original series, has released a new teaser. The series is the next installment of the popular “The Walking Dead” franchise and will premiere Feb. 25, 2024, on both AMC and AMC+.
Music legends, including an X Factor icon, have led tributes to influential media director James Masters, who has died aged 50. James was the head of media for Manchester's iconic Hacienda and was behind media campaigns for the popular Hacienda Classical events and club nights. Joy Division and New Order star Peter Hook broke the news on his social media platforms on Thursday.
Gossip are back with details of their first album in 11 years, ‘Real Power’, along with beautiful new single ‘Crazy Again’. Check it out below along with some exclusive insight from the band.The Beth Ditto-fronted indie icons have not released an album since 2012’s ‘A Joyful Noise‘. Now, the ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ trio will release their sixth album ‘Real Power’ in March 2024, produced again by Rick Rubin after he worked on the band’s 2009 album ‘Music For Men‘.
Glastonbury Festival 2024 sold out in just 25 minutes after going on sale last today (November 16).Britain’s biggest festival is making its trumphant return to Worthy Farm this year from June 26 through to Sunday June 30, 2024. Its spectacular 2023 edition saw Elton John, Arctic Monkeys, Rick Astley and more take to the stage.After going on sale at 6pm today, the expected ticket frenzy has resulted in coach and ticket packages selling out within 25 minutes.Glastonbury Festival announced the news on social media: “The Glastonbury 2024 tickets with coach travel on sale this evening have now all been sold.
It's raised over half a million pounds to date, and now Maggie's On The Runway returns for its final flight. The huge charity fashion event launched back in 2016 in aid of Maggie's Manchester, a cancer support centre based in the grounds of The Christie Hospital.
Oasis’ classic …There And Then live concert film can now be streamed.Available now to buy or rent on Apple TV, the film uses footage from three of the shows on the band’s ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’ tour, which ran between 1995 and 1996.…There And Then was first released on VHS on October 14, 1996 and saw the band storm through renditions of fan favourites including ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ and ‘Live Forever’. It also featured a range of exclusive interviews with the band.“The concert film ‘Oasis: …There and Then’ […] is now available for purchase and rental for the very first time,” read an update on X/Twitter, announcing the release to fans.The three shows featured in the film include a massive homecoming gig at Maine Road in Manchester and a then-record-breaking stop at London’s Earl’s Court.…There And Then is available now on Apple TV and can be found here.The news of the concert film now arriving on streaming platforms comes as the Britpop icons are currently celebrating various milestones from in their discography.This includes the 25th anniversary reissue of their famous compilation album ‘The Masterplan’.
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves took their pants off for a good cause. The couple is launching a new brand of tequila called Pantalones Tequila, with the two fittingly leaving their pants at home for the shoot. Camila Alves McConaughey’s flowy maxi dresses are the perfect summer to fall transition looksMatthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson: Separated at birth? A DNA test may reveal the truthA post shared by Matthew McConaughey (@officiallymcconaughey)The two teased their collaboration on Instagram, with the two discussing their idea behind the name and their basic requirements for their company.
Singer Rick Astley will host the BBC’s New Year’s Eve show this year.
Rick Astley is set to perform on the BBC’s New Year’s Eve celebration event, ‘New Year’s Eve Rocks’ this year.Broadcast to viewers live from Camden’s Roundhouse, the event will see Astley “joined on stage by some very special guests”, according to a statement from the BBC today (November 11). Tickets for the event go on general sale at at 9am on November 14 and can be purchased here.It added: “Performing his global hits and some surprise numbers, Rick and his all-star guests will party right into 2024.
As you probably have heard by now, writer Tom Perrota, the author of 1998’s novel “Election,” which was adapted into a very successful feature film by filmmaker Alexander Payne, has written the sequel, 2022’s book “Tracy Flick Can’t Win.” And some years back, it was announced that Payne and Reese Witherspoon would reunite to adapt that book into a movie. READ MORE: ‘The Holdovers’ Review: Alexander Payne & Paul Giamatti Reunite For A ’70s Nostalgia Dramedy [Telluride] Some thought it would be Payne’s next movie.
Noel Gallagher has said Oasis never became as popular in the US as they were in the UK because America “couldn’t handle” that “we didn’t give a fuck about anything”.Gallagher was speaking in conversation with the legendary rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky ahead of her new exhibition, which will include images of Oasis that she was able to capture during the band’s peak.“America, they couldn’t handle the fact that we didn’t give a fuck about anything,” said Gallagher, when asked about Oasis’ relationship with the country. “I mean, I think that’s the reason we’ve never really had a number one album in America – they wouldn’t go the extra mile for us because we wouldn’t go the extra mile for them.”“That’s why we’ve never been nominated for a GRAMMY – you’ve got to do all that stuff over there, you’ve got to kind of fake it a little bit and we just we couldn’t do it which is why we’d always stall at number two.”All seven of Oasis’ studio albums reached the Number One spot on the UK Albums Chart, whereas none achieved the same feat in the US, with 1997’s ‘Be Here Now’ reaching the highest position of Number Two.
PinkPantheress accidentally missed an important text from Kendrick Lamar while she was on a movie date. In a recent cover interview with i-D, the U.K.
Oasis are on course to score their ninth UK Number One album with the 25th anniversary reissue of their B-sides record ‘The Masterplan’.The 1998 album reissue was released last Friday (November 3) and made available in various formats, including CD, cream cassette and limited-edition double vinyl in a variety of colours.It was released as a compilation LP of B-sides and originally featured on singles from Oasis’ first three albums, ‘Definitely Maybe’ (1994), ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ (1995), and ‘Be Here Now’ (1997).Should it reach the chart summit, it will be Oasis’ first Number One album since their 2010 compilation ‘Time Flies… (1994-2009)’.Taylor Swift‘s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ which is this week’s Number One, is set to come in at Number Two, according to the Official Charts Company while BTS singer Jungkook looks set to score the highest-charting solo album from any member of the K-pop boyband in the UK with his debut ‘Golden’.Liam Gallagher recently announced the ‘Definitely Maybe’ 30th anniversary tour, due to take place in 2024. Full dates and tickets will be available here.
Noel Gallagher has shared his new single ‘We’re Gonna Get There In The End’.Taken from his recent album ‘Council Skies’, the track follows previous singles with his High Flying Birds, ‘Open The Door, See What You Find’, the title track, ‘Dead To The World’, ‘Easy Now‘ and ‘Pretty Boy’.Speaking about the track, Gallagher said: “I wrote this in one night during the pandemic. I wrote it and put the demo out.
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes – check it out above.Directed by Wes Ball (Maze Runner), the film serves as the sequel to 2017’s War For The Planet Of The Apes and is the fourth instalment in the reboot franchise overall.In Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, set several generations after Caesar’s reign where apes are now the dominant species on Earth, his son Cornelius (Owen Teague) is forced to contend with a new tyrannical ape leader who threatens to seize control.A synopsis reads: “As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.”Alongside Owen Teague, other cast members include Freya Allan (The Witcher), Kevin Durand (Locke & Key), Peter Macon (Shameless) and William H. Macy (Fargo).The film’s screenplay is written by Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Patrick Aison, with Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping serving as executive producers.Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes is released in cinemas on May 24, 2024.As reported by Deadline’s Justin Kroll in June last year, Disney is apparently planning a “new trilogy of films” after being “very high” on the first film’s script.Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, Planet Of The Apes was first adapted for the screen in 1968.
This is so sad…
Banijay has added to its UK scripted roster with the acquisiton of Help and The Buccaneers producer The Forge.
Blossoms have today announced the 'biggest' headline show of their career. The Stockport five-piece will perform a huge homecoming gig at Wythenshawe Park next August bank holiday weekend.
A couple has shared an eerie video of the moment they learned that Matthew Perry had passed away.