Stacey Solomon has admitted that she may struggle to pay her energy bills this winter amid the cost of living crisis.
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Vinyl is the UK’s second best selling physical entertainment format in 2022, according to new research.Only Nintendo Switch games are ahead of vinyl in terms of sales so far this year, despite being down 12.5 per cent year-on-year while record sales are up 12.2 per cent, figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association show.According to ERA, vinyl has generated £80.9million in sales so far in 2022, up from £72.1million this time last year.The format is also outselling Playstation games, which saw a 6.5 per cent year-on-year rise and CDs which are down 8.1 per cent.“Vinyl’s rise and rise seems unstoppable,” said ERA CEO Kim Bayley. “For a 74-year-old analogue format to eclipse the digital-age technology of games platforms is quite extraordinary.
Ten years into its long climb back to favour, the vinyl revival is most definitely here to stay.”It comes after vinyl record sales in 2021 were at the highest they’ve been in 30 years, despite widely publicised issues with backlogs and delays.According to figures from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), more than five million vinyl records were sold last year, an 8 per cent increase on 2020. It marked the 14th year in a row that the format has increased sales, with vinyl records making up 23 per cent of all albums sold.The biggest-selling vinyl album of 2021 was ABBA‘s comeback record ‘Voyage’, while Adele‘s huge ’30’ and Sam Fender‘s ‘Seventeen Going Under’ – NME’s Album Of The Year – also sold big on wax.Campaigns such as LoveRecordStores, Record Store Day and National Album Day also helped rally sales for independent record shops and specialist chains.Meanwhile, Glasgow was recently named the vinyl collecting capital of the UK, according to a new study.
.Stacey Solomon has admitted that she may struggle to pay her energy bills this winter amid the cost of living crisis.
Angry protestors have thrown red paint over the entrance of the Scottish Power headquarters in Glasgow during a demo against rising fuel bill prices. Activists targeted the St Vincent Street building on Friday - just hours before a separate peaceful demonstration by campaigners and trade unionists.
Stacey Solomon has been left scrambling to reschedule work arrangements while awaiting for her husband Joe Swash's delayed return from a recent trip.The television star, 32, has been by herself looking after with their kids Rex, three, and Rose, almost one, and her two other children, whilst Joe has been away. And the mum-of-four has had to wait even longer for her husband's return after his flight back to the UK was delayed.
BBC The Apprentice star Amy Anzel is putting the boardroom behind her as she prepares to take to the stage after landing a lead role performing in a pantomime production of Aladdin this Christmas. The American actress, singer and dancer turned beauty entrepreneur will play The Spirit of the Ring in Aladdin - and she has lived her own real-life fairytale.
Stacey Solomon did not have the evening that she had planned for, as she revealed to fans that her husband Joe Swash's flight home had been cancelled.INSIDE: Loose Women stars' beautiful homes revealed – Stacey Solomon, Coleen Nolan and moreThe star took to her Instagram Stories to vent about the situation, writing: "Fuming. Joe's flight home has been cancelled." She then joked she was planning to give her husband a treat, saying: "Can't believe I've just shaved my legs.
Naman Ramachandran British-Sri Lankan actor Nimmi Harasgama has returned to the U.K. stage after nearly a decade with “Silence,” a co-production between Donmar Warehouse and Tara Theatre. Harasgama, who was a member of the U.K.’s National Youth Theatre and went on to get a BA in drama and theater arts at Goldsmiths College, London University, has also trained at Groundlings Improv School and Lesly Kahn and Co Drama School in Los Angeles. The actor shot to international prominence with a brace of films by Sri Lankan auteur Prasanna Vithanage – “August Sun” (2003), for which she won best actress at Las Palmas, and “Flowers of the Sky” (2008), which premiered at Busan. After some shorts and roles in BBC series “Doctors,” Harasgama had an extended run on the U.K. stage in productions such as “The Snow Queen” (Unicorn Theatre); “Gandhi and Coconuts” (Kali Theatre Company); “Aunty Netta’s Holiday for Asylum” (Tamasha Theatre Company – Edinburgh Festival Fringe); and “Handful of Henna” (Rasa Theatre Company).
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vinyl record that’s also a guitar pedal.The gadget is the creation of Indianapolis-based rock band Brother O Brother, who teamed up with Romanus Records and Audio Disruption Devices to release their new album ‘Skin Walker’ on a special vinyl release for the album.The limited edition will feature what are reported to be the thickest vinyl records ever made as part of a 2LP set on which the vinyl also serves as a guitar pedal.Both LPs in the set have different functions, with one for delay and one for boost. The controls for the pedal are located in the centre of the vinyl records, which can be played on turntables.In a video explainer, Romanus Records walk fans through the new creation, and explain in the description: “One overdrive boost, and one delay pedal.
Stacey Solomon, 32, took to social media for the first time since the Queen passed away last Thursday.MORE: Stacey Solomon answers fans' security concern over her £1.2m homeTaking to her Instagram Stories, the Loose Women star, who in the past has been critical of the royal family, shared a string of candid posts from inside her Essex mansion, Pickle Cottage, alongside her baby daughter Rose whom she and her husband Joe Swash welcomed last year.WATCH: Stacey Solomon breaks silence since the Queen's deathIn one of the clips shared by the star, she penned: "It's been an interesting week [laughing face emoji]. Joe's gone away for work for two weeks so I've just been trying to get into the swing of it all around work without him.
wrote to his 13,900 on Instagram followers. “[There was] a loud bang and … 5 hours at the hospital confirmed that I was STRUCK BY LIGHTNING through the open window! Never going to play cute cat games during a thunderstorm again.
Gogglebox viewers were left baffled as they noticed the Siddiqui family have had made a major reshuffle for the new series. The room in which the trio comment on the latest TV shows has had a big makeover, with an outlandish wooden duck now in full view and brand new purple décor.
Three Premier League football matches including Chelsea vs. Liverpool plus Arsenal’s European fixture against PSV Eindhoven have been cancelled this weekend due to preparations for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.