Watch Sam Fender perform ‘Spit Of You’ at his “favourite pub in the world”

Sam Fender, Kasabian, Bombay Bicycle Club, Blossoms and The Kooks have been announced for next year’s Truck Festival.The Oxford bash makes its return at Hill Farm from July 22-24 in 2022 for its 25th anniversary, after three years away.This year, the festival was cancelled after the government failed to back up an insurance scheme for live events and it didn’t go ahead in 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak.Other acts on the bill include Sigrid, Easy Life, Sports Team, Inhaler, Kelis, Black

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have continued riding the wave of their collaborative album ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’ with new grin-inducing performances of ‘Fly As Me’ and ‘Smokin’ Out The Window’.The newly minted duo Silk Sonic opened the 2021 BET Soul Train Awards with two vintage-influenced live performances, which both took place at the Apollo Theater in New York.This marks the latest of a string of live appearances the pair have made over the course of the album’s cycle, with Silk Sonic

Wolf Alice have shared a live video of the band performing ‘Delicious Things’ at London’s Abbey Road studios.The clip, which you can watch below, sees the band backed by a full orchestra and choir.“We were thrilled to get a chance to record a live version of ‘Delicious Things’ at Abbey Road, we’d never been there before and were so happy to do a version of one of our fave songs with a whole orchestra and choir,” the band wrote on Instagram.The track featured on their recent album ‘Blue

Holly Humberstone duetted her song ‘Friendly Fire’ with Bombay Bicycle Club frontman Jack Steadman.Their performance of the track – which closes out Humberstone just-released second EP, ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’ – came towards the end of the singer-songwriter’s set, performed at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Monday November 8.It’s a faithful recreation of the slow-burning track, sans its swelling atmospherics and pared-back drum beat.

TRNSMT Festival 2022 has announced another wave of acts, including Sam Fender, Nile Rodgers & Chic and Self Esteem.The three-day festival will return to Glasgow Green between July 8 and July 10 with headline performances from Paolo Nutini, The Strokes and Lewis Capaldi.Today (November 25) organisers have confirmed that Sam Fender will appear in a special guest slot before Nutini on the Friday night (July 8).

BandLab NME Awards return for 2022, with Halsey, Sam Fender, Griff and Rina Sawayama in attendance at the wildest night in music.After a huge comeback in 2020 and a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, our Awards will return to London’s O2 Academy Brixton on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 to celebrate the best in music and entertainment from around the globe.

Sam Fender will front a BBC Four documentary about Lindisfarne’s late frontman Alan Hull later this week.The film Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story will see Fender tracing the ’70s band’s history – who were famous for hits such as ‘Lady Eleanor’ and ‘Fog On The Tyne’ – through Hull.The documentary will also feature a number of celebrity talking heads including Sting, Elvis Costello, Mark Knopfler, Eurythmics‘ Dave Stewart and Peter Gabriel.

Red singer Taylor Swift was unable to make it to the 2021 American Music Awards on Sunday night, but she was sure to thank her fans for all their support.

Sam Fender teamed up with Gang Of Youths frontman Dave Le’aupepe in London last night (November 21) for a cover of Bruce Springsteen‘s ‘I’m On Fire’.The pair performed the 1985 hit single during Fender’s encore at Alexandra Palace, after Gang Of Youths supported the singer earlier in the night.

Olivia Rodrigo performed ‘Traitor’ at the American Music Awards 2021 tonight (November 21) in Los Angeles.The ceremony was hosted by rapper Cardi B and also featured performances by the likes of BTS and Coldplay, Silk Sonic and Tyler, The Creator in its opening hour.Going into the ceremony, Rodrigo was the most-nominated artist shortlisted for the AMAs this year, with seven nods.The pop star performed ‘Traitor’ from her debut album ‘Sour’ at the ceremony, appearing on stage in front of an open

Dry Cleaning made their late-night US TV debut on Friday (November 19) – watch them perform ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon below.The single appears on the 4AD-signed band’s debut album ‘New Long Leg’, which came out earlier this year.The Fallon performance came at the end of the band’s first live shows in the US.

David Bowie performing early single ‘Can’t Help Thinking About Me’ has been released – check it out below.Originally released in 1965, ‘Can’t Help Thinking About Me’ was the first single Bowie released after changing his name from David Jones. Bowie performed the track during the 90s as he set to work on ‘Toy’, an album of re-recorded songs from his early days that was eventually scrapped due to a disagreement with his label.Ahead of the release of the forthcoming ‘David Bowie 5.

Black Midi have announced a special live album and released videos of them performing tracks from their recently released second album ‘Cavalcade’ – check them out below.‘Live-Cade’ is a special, five-track album featuring live recordings of the band at Soup Studios in London. The limited-edition 12” vinyl is being released this Friday (November 19) and is available to pre-order now via Rough Trade Records.The tracklisting for ‘Live-Cade’ is as follows:1. ‘Crazy John L’2. ‘Chondromalacia

Nominated for five awards - best artist, best pop, best UK & Ireland act, best song, and best video (both of which are for his single "Bad Habits") - the singer-song-writer performed his latest single, "Overpass Graffiti," at the Papp László Budapest Sportaréna. For his first EMA appearance and performance, Sheeran wore a pretty questionable two-piece suit to the ceremony, which he later explained on the red carpet was inspired by his new song.

Kendrick Lamar performed his only show of the year last night (November 12) at Day N Vegas festival.The Las Vegas event saw the Compton MC celebrate the 10th anniversary of his breakthrough debut LP ‘Section.80’, performing a number of the record’s deep cuts: ‘A.D.H.D.’, ‘HiiiPower’, ‘Fuck Your Ethnicity’, ‘Hol’ Up’, ‘Ronald Reagan Era (His Evils)’ and ‘Chapter Ten’, the latter of which Kendrick had never performed live before.For the rest of his performance, the TDE rapper ran through a

Damon Albarn delivered a live performance of ‘Darkness To Light’ on US TV last night – you can watch the video below.The Blur and Gorillaz frontman appeared as the musical guest on yesterday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (November 12) in support of his new solo album, ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’.Filmed in black-and-white, the moody clip sees Albarn perform under a spotlight in a large studio space alongside his band.

Suede performed a duet of ‘The Wild Ones’ with Nadine Shah last night (November 11) at London’s Alexandra Palace.The singer, who opened for the legendary rockers on all seven dates of their ‘Coming Up’ anniversary tour, teamed up with frontman Brett Anderson for an acoustic rendition of the track.

Sam Fender, Kasabian and Madness have been announced as headliners for next year’s Tramlines festival.Sheffield’s biggest city-based music festival will take place at Hillsborough Park on July 22-24. Day tickets and a limited amount of weekend tickets will go on sale at midday on Friday (November 12).

Billie Eilish has performed a kid-friendly rework of her track ‘Happier Than Ever’ for an upcoming episode of Sesame Street.For the episode, Eilish performs a duet with the Count about the joys of counting, beginning with the lyrics “When I’m counting with you, I’m happier than ever“. Watch the duet below:Eilish was recently announced as one of the guest stars on Sesame Street’s 52nd season, which premieres on November 11.

Sam Fender turned down the opportunity to appear on Elton John‘s new album ‘The Lockdown Sessions’.The pair teamed up for a collaborative live version of Fender’s single ‘Will We Talk?’ at John’s post-Oscars charity party in February 2020. John has since hailed the North Shields singer-songwriter as “the best rock and roll artist there is”.Speaking to the Daily Star‘s ‘Wired’ column, Fender revealed he had to decline an offer to duet with John on the legendary artist’s latest record.