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Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and other industry figures are among those who have signed a statement against using creatives’ work to train AI.The statement, which you can find here, reads: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”It follows ongoing legal issues between the creative world and tech firms over the use of their work to train artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT.Among the 11,500 signatories from across the music, film, theatre and writing world pushing back against the use of intellectual property without permission are Billy Bragg, Kevin Bacon, Robert Smith, Julianne Moore, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ann Patchett, Rosario Dawson and more.Today we’re publishing a statement on AI training, signed by 10,000+ creators already:“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”Signatories include… pic.twitter.com/AqVaEThMs4— Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) October 22, 2024Following the release of the statement, Gee Davy, the interim CEO for the Association of Independent Music has said: “On behalf of the UK’s independent music community – businesses who are proud to work in partnership with artists – we support this statement from Fairly Trained.“To achieve the benefits of AI for creativity, we urge policymakers not to lose sight of the need for strong copyright protections.

The Rasmus have announced a series of ‘Weirdo’ tour dates, taking place across the UK and Europe next year – find ticket details below.Announced today (October 22), the new run of shows will see the Finnish rock band take their ‘Weirdo’ tour on the road across the continent throughout late 2025.Six new UK dates have been added to the schedule, kicking off with a night at the SWG3 Galvanizers Yard venue in Glasgow on November 30, and continuing the following week with shows in Manchester and Cardiff on December 1 and 2.From there, a show at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London is scheduled for December 4, as is a follow-up stop at the 1865 venue in Southampton the following night (5). The dates conclude with a final date at Nottingham’s Rock City on December 6.The UK dates come after a huge stretch of European shows The Rasmus have planned, beginning in Tampere, Finland on September 12.

David Bowie Centre.The new working store and visitor attraction will be open to the public from May 31, and located at East Bank – the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It is set to home over 500,000 works, including the Glastonbury Festival Archives, costumes from PJ Harvey and Elton John, designer couture, vintage shirts, Samurai swords and many more.

Coldplay‘s Chris Martin sat down for an impromptu interview in a park recently – watch footage below.He was approached in New York’s Washington Square Park by Dutch music journalist Sagid Carter, who previously worked in radio but recently launched her own interview series on YouTube.In the video, she recalled how she saw Martin with his manager Phil Harvey on her last day in New York (October 1). She proceeded to “just wanted to shoot her shot” by asking for some interview time.

Liam Gallagher has addressed the fans who are unhappy with Oasis not booking younger bands for a support slot.After weeks of speculation about who’ll be supporting them on their reunion tour, they confirmed Richard Ashcroft as a special guest for their 2025 UK and Ireland reunion tour earlier this month.The former frontman of The Verve is set to open for the Britpop band on each date of the trek next summer, which includes seven nights at London’s Wembley Stadium and five gigs at Manchester’s Heaton Park.The news came after recent reports suggested that Ashcroft and Cast (who have not yet been announced) would join the Gallaghers on the road for Oasis Live ’25.In a statement about the forthcoming massive support slots, Ashcroft said: “As a fan from day one I was buzzing for many reasons when the news of Oasis’ return was announced.“I can say with no exaggeration that the songwriting talent of Noel and Liam’s pure spirit as a lead singer helped to inspire me to create some of my best work. It was the perfection of ‘Live Forever’ that forced me to try and write my own.”However, some fans felt it was a wasted opportunity to spotlight younger, more up-and-coming bands, particularly after many took to social media to speculate that Fontaines D.C.

Celebrity Gogglebox.The duo, who are most famous for The Lightning Seeds‘ football anthem ‘Three Lions’, will be making an appearance on the Channel 4 show this Friday (October 25) for the Stand Up To Cancer charity.Skinner told The Sun: “It is an amazing cause and Dave and me, back on a sofa, seems a better deal than cycling up K2, carrying a fridge to Istanbul or any of that sweaty stuff people do for charity.”Baddiel added: “I’m a big fan of Gogglebox, Stand Up To Cancer, and Frank Skinner, so this wasn’t a difficult yes.

sign up for access here.Today (October 22), organisers shared the initial batch of names for next summer’s bash – featuring Bonobo, Floating Points and Ben UFO.Other artists on the bill include Or:la, Nosedrip, Sleep D, SHERELLE, Vladimir Ivkovic, Crazy P, Chaos In The CBD, Horse Meat Disco, Luke Una, Craig Richards, Ellie Stokes and Midland.“2025 marks 10 years of Love International and also 20 years since the original Garden Festival, which became Love International in 2016,” a statement read.“Next year’s programme pays homage to these roots, with some guests joining us in 2025 who were a key part of The Garden’s story and Love International’s formative years.”Check out the line-up poster below.A post shared by Love International Festival (@loveintfestival)Crazy P will be represented by remaining members Hot Toddy and Ron Basejam following the “sudden and tragic” death of lead vocalist Danielle Moore recently.In a statement at the time, Moore’s surviving bandmates said: “We cannot believe the news ourselves and we know it will be the same for all of you. She gave us so much and we love her so much.

LCD Soundsystem have shared a surprise new song ‘X-Ray Eyes’. Check it out below.Debuted as a “worldwide exclusive” on NTS Radio today (Tuesday October 22), the song marks the first new material from James Murphy and co – aside from the standalone ‘New Body Rhumba‘ from Noah Baumbach’s 2022 film White Noise – since 2017 comeback album ‘American Dream’, which itself arrived after a seven-year hiatus following 2010’s ‘This Is Happening’.“I have a very, very, very special exclusive for you,” said host Anu, introducing the song which she promised would drop “very soon”.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has hit out at Donald Trump over women’s rights in America.The star, who previously played a female vice president in Veep, took to social media ahead of the US presidential elections on November 5 to criticise the former US President.Louis-Dreyfus, who recently endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, said: “OK, let’s cut to the chase. Donald Trump and his merry band of yes men are obsessed with what we women do with our bodies.“They want to reach into our doctors’ offices and our bedrooms to control our access to birth control and IVF and, of course, abortion – even though they wouldn’t know a uterus if they had to crawl out of one for a second time.”I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.

Some astronomers believe the 10th-brightest star in the night sky, Betelgeuse, is on the brink of exploding as a supernova because of the way it brightens and dims. Now a new theory has emerged that the observed pulsing of Betelgeuse is probably caused by an unseen companion star orbiting it.

Venom: The Last Dance have hailed it as “the best of the trilogy”.Starring Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach and Stephen Graham, the new sequel will open in cinemas this Friday (October 25). A trailer for the movie was shared last month with fans reacting positively to it.A synopsis for the The Last Dance reads: “Eddie and Venom are on the run.

Peaky Blinders movie in Birmingham.Cillian Murphy reprised his role as Tommy Shelby for a scene on Cornwall Street yesterday (October 21) which saw him riding a horse and wearing a heavily mud-stained coat and suit.Fans shared footage of the star in the scene on social media, which you can view below.Later in the evening, Stephen Graham made his return as Hayden Stagg after recently being confirmed to be appear in the forthcoming Netflix movie.

Alessia Cara has shared new single ‘(Isn’t It) Obvious’ and announced her upcoming album ‘Love & Hyperbole’.Her fourth full-length album, which she told fans on Instagram is her “best work to date”, arrives on February 14, 2025, and you can pre-order and pre-save it here.The new track, which features a guitar solo from John Mayer, follows the release of ‘Dead Man’, and sees her touch on long distance relationships, with her singing: “I see it on your face and on your mind / You see the cracks in the ice / Without my hand to hold / I’m the first to know / You’re gripping on the waist of other times.”“If ‘Dead Man’ is about emotional distance, then ‘(Isn’t It) Obvious’ is about being physically apart from someone but reminding them how much you love them,” said Cara in a press release.“As I was coming up with the lyrics I was pulling a lot of inspiration from singer/songwriters like John Mayer, so it’s mind-blowing to me that he ended up actually playing on the song.”Ahead of the release of her third album ‘In The Meantime’, Cara appeared in NME‘s In Conversation series, and touched on dealing with the pressure that came with her breakout success as well as writing songs with Salaam Remi – the producer who worked with her musical hero Amy Winehouse.“[The success of debut single ‘Here’] gave me a soapbox that I hadn’t intended to stand on – it was like, ‘Oh, now I’m like speaking for all the introverts in the world,’ which is wonderful,” she said.

Dinner for Vampire.““You tell her this show is about f—ing and sucking and if she’s gonna have a problem with that, she shouldn’t come in tomorrow,” her manager said after speaking to one of the show’s execs.The actress says she and her manager were speechless at this explanation.Even with the bluntness from the exec, Lenz writes, she was attracted to the show because it “felt different from most bubble-gum TV with subliminal agendas” in her memoir.“Grit didn’t scare me, and the ‘One Tree Hill’ pilot had grit,” she continued.During this time, Lenz said, she had turned down the opportunity to star in “What I Like About You,” which went to then-teenager Amanda Bynes.Lenz, who was raised in an Evangelical Christian household, said she was worried that portraying a woman living with her boyfriend would “normalize ‘living in sin’ for young girls.”Lenz later wrote she felt comfortable with the “awkward girl next door” character, whom she viewed as the “most wholesome” member of the main cast.“I didn’t feel too at risk of being objectified,” Lenz wrote. “I believed in this show and its ability to send meaningful, uplifting messages to the audience.” Her character would go on to get pregnant, engaged and live with Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) while she was in high school.

People if Andrew has seen the project, in which she confesses to having an affair.“The ex-husband? I have no idea. I haven’t talked to him for over 20 years.

death of her co-star Michael Newman, who died at age 68 on Sunday.“Michael ‘Newmie’ Newman was an inspiration to all. From his knowledge, skill and willingness to share to his long fight with Parkinson’s disease, he was a beacon of strength,” Eggert, 52, told the Post in a statement Tuesday.“The beaches will never be the same and my heart goes out to his family at this time of tremendous loss,” she continued.

Fox News Digital in an interview published Tuesday. “When I think of islands, I think of the obvious places surrounded by water, and I was raised in New York. I just never thought of it as an island,” Mintz added.Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman outside his apartment in NYC on Dec.

Ricky Gervais from exploring the touchy subject on his ‘Mortality Tour,’ which will eventually be filmed for a Netflix special.“We’re all gonna die,” Gervais said in a statement. “May as well have a laugh about it.

"This is Us" actress Chrissy Metz is sharing the "abuse" she endured from her stepfather over her weight. Metz said that during her teen years, her stepfather shamed the actress for her weight and would pull out a scale. "He would weigh me in the kitchen or threaten to lock the cupboards," she said on "The Jamie Kern Lima Show." "And I’m like, ‘I don’t think you get it,’" Metz added.

A Pictionary game show is coming to ITV. Mel Giedroyc is set to host the programme based on Mattel's popular drawing game that has proved successful on US screens – where it is already in its third season.

King Charles is on the hunt for a new high-flying employee with a "competitive" salary and attractive benefits, which could be the "perfect" opportunity for Prince Andrew to make his royal comeback.The Daily Mail's Royal correspondent Richard Eden cheekily suggested that this could be the ideal way for the Duke of York to return to Royal duties after stepping back five years ago.The job in question is a helicopter pilot who would enjoy a "competitive" salary and be responsible for flying members of the Royal Family around the UK for official engagements. Prince Andrew has previous experience in this area, having served as a helicopter pilot and warship captain during the Falklands War aboard the HMS Invincible.The job advert on the Royal Household website is seeking an "experienced multi-engine helicopter commander" who could serve as either the main pilot or co-pilot.The ad reads: "The King's Helicopter Flight (TKHF) consists of a small team of pilots and ground support staff who provide an exceptional helicopter travel service to Members of the Royal Family undertaking official engagements across the UK." Alongside the technical requirements, including "extensive flying experience in multi-engine helicopters", the successful candidate will need to show "high levels of initiative, pro-activity and problem-solving capability," reports the Scottish Daily Express.