One Liners: Take That, Pink, Bastille, more

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APPOINTMENTSSecretly Publishing has hired Trinity Hood as an A&R associate and Tony Messina-Doerning as an A&R.

Both will be based in the company’s LA office. “I’m THRILLED to welcome Tony and Trinity to the Secretly Publishing family as part of our A&R team”, says Senior Director Of A&R Eddie Sikazwe. “Their addition is another display of our commitment to providing first-class service to our writers.

After multiple conversations with Tony and Trinity, I have no doubt that they’ll bring exciting and unique concepts to the team”.————————————————–RELEASESGary Barlow has confirmed that Take That are working on their first album since 2017. “We have started a little bit of writing, but we’re not due to officially start until the New Year”, he told Zoe Ball on her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show. “Hopefully there will be an album out next year, but we’ve got to write some hits”.Pink has released new single ‘Never Gonna Not Dance Again’, which sounds exhausting.

She’s also announced UK shows next summer where you can see how her commitment to always dancing is going, including two performances at the British Summer Time festival in London’s Hyde Park on 24-25 Jun.Bastille have released the video for ‘Hope For The Future’, which appears on both their recent ‘Give Me The Future + Dreams Of The Past’ album and the soundtrack of new climate change documentary ‘From Devil’s Breath’. “I was given the chance to watch ‘From Devil’s Breath’ a while back, and was really moved by the incredibly powerful story that [director] Orlando Von Einsiedel and the team have woven together”, says frontman Dan Smith. “It’s a heart-breaking story that’s beautifully told, so when they asked me to write a song for the end credits, it seemed important to.