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Massive Attack, The National and The Chemical Brothers will headline its 2022 event.The latest addition to the Scottish festival calendar will take place at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre from August 26–28.Other names on the bill for the rebooted event, which was announced yesterday (February 22), include Mogwai, Little Simz, Self Esteem, Black Country, New Road, Jon Hopkins, Black Coffee, Bonobo, Bombay Bicycle Club, John Grant, LOW, Idlewild and more.Massive Attack will take to the Grand Parade Stage on the Friday; The Chemical Brothers will top the bill on the Saturday; and The National will close out proceedings on the Sunday.“We are delighted to be announcing our line-up for Connect today,” said DF Concerts & Events CEO, Geoff Ellis. “For some time now we have been working tirelessly and carefully to curate a captivating line-up for the first edition of our new iteration of Connect and we have been really excited to share it.“While Connect is a brand new festival proposition, it will still retain many qualities from – and the ethos of – its namesake from 2007 and 2008, especially regarding the music, entertainment, food and drink programmes.Ellis added: “We are thrilled to be welcoming the very best in left field talent from grassroots through to award-winning headliners to perform this year and we cannot wait to welcome fans to the Royal Highland Showgrounds this August.”This is Connect 2022.Sign-up for access to pre-sale:https://t.co/ZVj8UkwnJGFor your chance to win 4 weekend tickets to Connect 2022, head over to our Instagram account.

Jon Hopkins has soundtracked and helped create an installation which can induce hallucinations.By combining flickering lights and electronic music, Hopkins, with the help of neuroscientists, philosophers and trance music producers, has formed an out of this world experience for users called ‘Dreamachine’.The new project uses ambient music from Hopkins as a soundtrack to the experience, which researchers called “stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations.”It sees visitors enter a room, lie-down and close their eyes before the experience begins.“The important thing about these practices is the loss of ego and the beginning of shared experience,” Hopkins told The Guardian. “These are alternatives to our problem-solving, scientific consciousness of reality.”The project will tour the UK this spring and more information can be found here.Earlier this month, Hopkins shared his first new music of 2022 – ‘A Gathering Of The Tribe’.The track is described as a sonic companion piece to Hopkins’ meditative 2021 album, ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’, which came out in November.Speaking about the new piece, which was originally written with the intention of scoring an animated short film featuring an excerpt from Charles Eisenstein’s book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Hopkins said: “I haven’t done much scoring in the last few years, but occasionally something comes along that I fall in love with and feel like I just have to work on.

Buckingham Palace released a short statement on Wednesday (February 23), just hours after a major death hoax spread across the Internet.

Love Island is coming back – at a new home.

The leader of the opposition at Salford council stormed out of a meeting today (February 23) after saying he was 'attacked' during a debate about the budget.

on the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s website.“Drive-Thru provides a democratic platform that celebrates neighborhood voices,” said Soft-Firm co-founder Talitha Liu. “After another year of distance and uncertainty, the installation projects a portal into the rich cultural fabric of Brooklyn.” The installation indeed feels like a tongue-in-cheek reference to the pandemic trend of distance-friendly drive-in movies.

Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has expressed his concern about his old club persisting with veteran strikers Cristiano Ronaldo and Edinson Cavani.

Supermarket fashion brand George at ASDA has been flooded with praise for its budget £12.50 jeans.

Just as life appeared to be on a more even keel for former loan shark Gary Windass, the Corrie character has been spotted looking very shifty in dramatic new scenes being filmed for the soap.

The website founded by Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert, says there are certain places you should put your Wi-Fi box in your home to get the highest internet speeds.

struggled with addiction prior to her death, welcomed her daughter Genevieve «Evie» Shae Taylor. during the series. Shortly after her daughter’s birth, she signed over temporary custody rights to Derek’s mother.In 2017, Jordan was arrested for drug possession.

is back! After initially being canceled after season 20 in 2010, creator Dick Wolf’s mothership series, which has spawned a number of spinoffs and an expansive TV universe, is returning with season 21. Led by executive producer and showrunner Rick Eid, the revival features returning stars Sam Waterston as District Attorney Jack McCoy and Anthony Anderson as Det. Kevin Bernard.

Angelique Jackson Inspired by the new Warner Bros. TV series “All American: Homecoming,” Warner Bros. Television Group has established a scholarship to support students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).The studio partnered with the NAACP to develop the Warner Bros.

Donny Davis, the comic and impersonator who appeared frequently as a guest on Chelsea Lately, performed as a comedian and dancer for Britney Spears’ 2013 Las Vegas residency and was a longtime member of the Hollywood and Las Vegas nightclub variety show Beacher’s Madhouse, where he often appeared with a fake tan and blond wig as “Mini-Trump,” died Tuesday in Las Vegas. He was 43.

EXCLUSIVE: Deanna Allison is set as a lead opposite Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon in Dark Winds, AMC’s Western noir thriller series based on Tony Hillerman’s popular Leaphorn & Chee book series. It hails from creator Graham Roland and executive producers George R.R. Martin and Robert Redford. Rainn Wilson, Noah Emmerich and Jessica Matten also star.

Following the tragic death of Management 360 partner Chris Huvane, the Huvane family announced today that they will hold a private memorial service for their beloved son, husband, brother and uncle, who passed away on February 6.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Anne del Castillo will continue to serve as commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as he unveiled new members of his economic development team Wednesday, led by Deputy Mayor for Economic and Workforce Development Maria Torres-Springer.

Don’t cross Hannah Waddingham or you’ll be hearing that bell.

Joanna Cherry has insisted she has no plans to join Alex Salmond’s Alba party after the former First Minister published a picture of himself with the SNP MP.

A writer has claimed she was dropped from an upcoming Scottish Government ad campaign because of a poem she wrote about former first minister Alex Salmond.

A crime writer who is friends with Nicola ­Sturgeon was allowed to hold a book launch at the First Minister’s ­official ­residence.