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Don Broco are teasing a secret set at Reading Festival today (August 27).Taking to Twitter this morning, the band wrote: “Hope everyone has a great [Reading & Leeds] weekend” with added sunglasses emoji.Fans then spotted the location the tweet was sent from as Reading, with the festivals’ official account then reposting and saying: “Peep the location.”No official confirmation has been given yet of a Don Broco secret set, but they would join the likes of Wargasm and Pendulum in teasing last-minute shows at the pair of festivals.It would also be the second time in two years that the band have played a secret set, with them popping up at Reading & Leeds in 2021 for sets on the Lock Up Stage.Peep the location

Polo G used his main stage set at Reading Festival 2022 last night (Friday August 26) to pay tribute to Juice WRLD.Coming out on stage with just his DJ, the 23-year-old got the crowd to illuminate themselves with phone torches, invoking hysteria for his bass-driven trap hits. Ahead of ‘Martin & Gina’ track, he called out: “Where are all my sexy ladies at? If you’re a sexy lady, make some noise.

Dave was joined by special guests Stormzy and AJ Tracey during his Reading Festival headline set last night (August 26) – see the full setlist, footage and reaction below.The rapper was co-headlining the festival’s first evening alongside Megan Thee Stallion, and played a career-spanning set featuring tracks from both his studio albums.Alongside a cover of Headie One’s ’18HUNNA’, Dave was joined by AJ Tracey to perform ‘Thiago Silva’, while later on in the set, Stormzy came on stage to perform ‘Clash’, returning the favour Dave paid him last summer by coming on during Stormzy’s headline set at the festival.See footage of the special guest appearances and Dave’s full setlist below.A post shared by Reading & Leeds Festival (@officialrandl)#randl22 #readingfestival #fyp ♬ original sound – postaccountt ‘We’re All Alone’‘Professor X’‘Funky Friday’‘Wanna Know’‘No Words’‘Heart Attack’‘Thiago Silva’ (with AJ Tracey)’18HUNNA’‘System’‘Location’‘Twenty To One’‘Both Sides Of A Smile’‘Clash’ (with Stormzy)‘Starlight’Elsewhere on Friday at Reading, Megan Thee Stallion invited two groups of fans on stage to dance with her. At the start of the set, Stallion said security wouldn’t let any fans on stage.

Halsey has revealed that they played their Leeds Festival headline set last night (August 26) with “terrible food poisoning,” saying: “I have no idea how I’m still alive.”The singer was co-headlining the first night of the Yorkshire event alongside The 1975, and took to social media this morning (August 27) to detail the “messed up conditions” with which she played the show.On their Instagram Stories, Halsey wrote: “I have no idea how I’m still alive after my Leeds set. I have terrible food poisoning STILL! It started yesterday at 2pm and I somehow made it on stage (after the medical team at the festival were soooo helpful!).”They added: “I have played shows under some messed up conditions but last night might be the worst in recent memory.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The Nashville Film Festival announced the full lineup Friday for a fall gathering of filmgoers in Music City that will begin with the Brandi Carlile-produced documentary “The Return of Tanya Tucker” as the gala opening on Sept. 29 and end with director Sacha Jenkins’ “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” for closing night on Oct. 5. The 53rd annual edition of the festival will take place both in-person and virtually, with a selection of more than 150 films that includes 38 full-length features, about 30 of which will be world, North American or U.S. premieres. Although the virtual component continues to be strong for the festival, its leaders note that of the 150 or so films in the festival, more than 50 will screen for audiences in Nashville venues, starting with the Tanya Tucker doc, which will be seen in the historic main auditorium of the city’s beloved Belcourt Theater, one of the original homes of the Grand Ole Opry. Other locations include the Franklin Theater in the nearby city of that name, and the TPAC Andrew Johnson Theater in downtown Nashville.

Megan Thee Stallion has performed her set at Reading Festival this evening (August 26) and invited two groups of fans on stage to dance with her.At the start of the set, Stallion said security wouldn’t let any fans on stage. Later, she brought a security guard on stage and told fans he was going to help get her “hotties” on stage.Before they arrived, Stallion said there were “rules” for when they are on stage.

Variety’s top takeaways from the three-day festival:

And just like that, summer is over, and the festival season is about to start. That’s right, blockbuster season is essentially over, and now it’s time for the fall film festival circuit to produce and premiere the film titles that will be vying for Oscars later this year.

Wargasm have announced a last-minute show at Reading Festival 2022.The London duo – comprising Milkie Way and Sam Matlock – will open the event’s Main Stage East at 12pm tomorrow (August 27) ahead of sets from the likes of AJ Tracey, Wolf Alice and headliners Arctic Monkeys.Enter Shikari – whose new single ‘The Void Stares Back’ features a guest appearance from Wargasm – are also scheduled to perform at Reading tomorrow (Main Stage West, 16:50), suggesting that a live collaboration could be on the cards.It’s not yet known whether Wargasm will fill the same vacant slot at Leeds Festival on Sunday (August 28).

EXCLUSIVE: The Points North Institute today announced recipients of three of its prestigious fellowship programs, ahead of next month’s Camden International Film Festival in Maine.

Disney+ has commissioned a doc on the sensational ‘Wagatha Christie’ legal case, another on fashion magazine Vogue and a Keanu Reeves-voiced Formula 1 series as part of its UK slate.

Alternative MacTaggart lecturer Rose Ayling-Ellis has revealed the crushing pressure of feeling like “the poster girl for the deaf community” as she urged the TV world to “be braver and have the courage to make changes.”

Pendulum appear to be teasing a secret set at Reading Festival 2022.Today (August 26) marks the first day of music at this year’s Reading & Leeds, which will host headline performances from the likes of Arctic Monkeys, The 1975 and Dave across the weekend.As some attendees have noted on Twitter, a cryptic poster displaying Pendulum’s band logo has been spotted at R&L’s southern edition. It features a UK phone number (+44 7888 863751) that, when called, plays a pre-recorded message regarding a mystery show.“Ladies and gentlemen, we understand that you have come tonight to bear witness to the sound of drum and bass,” a voiceover states.

Succession star Brian Cox has said Logan Roy, the arch-villain he plays in the HBO/Sky epic, would “hate me,” but claimed he “loves” and “respects the character.”

SIR Sean Connery's family have held a secret send-off to celebrate the actor's life. Micheline Roquebrune, 93, was joined by other family members at Dalmeny Estate near Edinburgh, the Daily Record reported. And arrived on the privately hired Royal Scotman train yesterday morning.

British pay-TV network Sky expects to continue its relationship with HBO “one way or the other,” as Warner Bros. Discovery’s plans to merge HBO Max and Discovery+ in Europe next year gather pace.

Sky has unveiled seven original comedy shorts at the Edinburgh Television Festival written by and starring the likes of Rosie Jones, Desiree Burch and Jordan Stephens, while ordering Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir (working title) and greenlighting a fifth season of Brassic.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 was the big winner at the Edinburgh TV Awards, winning six of the 20 awards on offer, including Channel of the Year. The awards returned as an in-person event this year as part of the Edinburgh TV Festival, supported by Screen Scotland. Jodie Comer, who won the 2021 Variety Outstanding Achievement Award, won the best TV actor in a drama award for her performance in Jack Thorne’s Channel 4 drama “Help.” Actor, writer and director Diane Morgan received the 2022 Variety Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of her extensive body of work, which ranges from Ricky Gervais’ “After Life” to “Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe” and includes fan-favorite “Motherland” and and her much loved character Philomena Cunk.

Apple TV+’s Pachinko and Netflix’s Sex Education are among the big winners at the Edinburgh TV Awards. Jodie Comer, Mo Gilligan and Sharon Horgan’s indie also scooped goings at the event, held this evening in Scotland’s capital as the Edinburgh TV Festival’s second day comes to an end.