London Calling: Last News

NME about the highs and lows of playing live in the current climate, and shared advice for rising acts about taking to the stage.The event, showcasing unsigned music across the capital, is set to return for its second year tomorrow (Wednesday, February 28) as a core element of the ILMC. With over 1,000 agents, promoters and live music professionals in town, ILMC offers a platform for artists to perform in front of a potentially career-changing crowd.Across five intimate venues across Soho – The 100 Club, 21Soho, The Lower Third, Phoenix Arts Club and The Spice of Life – London Calling boasts a stacked line-up of August Charles, b1no*, Babymorocco, Backroad Gee, Emilia Tarrant, Forgetting The Future, freekind, Gia Ford, Hyphen, Lala Hayden, Luna Morgenstern, LYVIA, MAVICA, Noah and the Loners, Nxdia, The New Eves and YIIGAA.With the ILMC hosting talks, workshops, mentor sessions, special events and more during based around the business and culture of touring, festival and live entertainment, three of the acts appearing at London Calling caught up with NME to share some insight about their life on the road.Taking to the stage at the Phoenix Arts Club, Lala Hayden said that she was looking forward to the next step of her “surreal” journey after taking an “indefinite break” as frontwoman of previous band Anteros.

Callum McLennan Comedy docuseries “The World’s Strangest Jobs,” from Johannesburg-based Mannequin Pictures, one of South Africa’s key production, finance, and distribution companies, has sold to Prime Video the rights to the African continent. Mannequin is now pursuing sales in all other territories. The eight-part series is hosted by comedian and actor Schalk Bezuidenhout.

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Carole Horst Highland Film Group shared a first look at “London Calling,” an action-comedy that reunites director Allan Ungar with star Josh Duhamel after the success of the action heist thriller “Bandit.” Film also stars Jeremy Ray Taylor (“It,” “and “It: Chapter Two”), Rick Hoffman (“Billions,” “Suits”) and Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”) Written by Omer Levin Menekse and Quinn Wolfe, “London Calling” sees mediocre hit man Tommy Ward (Duhamel) go on the run and get stuck in L.A. after mistakenly killing a relative of London’s biggest crime boss (Gillen).

Ulrika Jonsson has taken to Instagram to show off her trim figure in a story post that highlighted her natural beauty.In the snap, the television presenter posed in a mirror wearing a black vest top which displayed her toned arms, covered in tattoos as they held her phone.She paired the look with dark trousers, wore her voluminous blonde hair in loose waves and accessorised with gold jewellery.Jonsson added in the caption: “An hour to go on air,” and tagged Talk TV.In another stunning snap, Ulrika could be seen pouting as she rode in a vehicle, wearing a black scarf and minimal makeup.Her striking blue eyes were the focus of the picture and her bronzed glow was complemented by the icy blonde hair.She captioned the post with a cryptic message: “Had a bit of a drama with a yellow tit earlier,” and wrote the hashtag “say no more”.Prior to her selfies, Ulrika shared a picture of the Talk TV logo and told her 191,000 followers that she was “on the way” to the studios.She added a video of the London Eye and covered it with The Clash’s London Calling.The 54-year-old also posted another cryptic message to her story which read: “Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you stop making efforts, a relationship or friendship ends? It was because it was never two-sided, it was just you.”The former Gladiators host owns four bulldogs and loves to update her fans on their lives together.One of her pups has recently celebrated their birthday and Ulrika shared pictures of her pampered pooch.The star added a snap and called him “beautiful” as she told her fans it was his “fifth birthday”.She then dressed him up in an orange ribbon and wrote that he “hates her so much right now” for his new outfit.Another picture of the pup showed him

Cue “London Calling.” Prince Harry has been photographed for the first time since his return to the United Kingdom last week. The Duke of Sussex, 36, looked deep in thought from the passenger seat of a black vehicle on June 30 at Kew Gardens, where he made a surprise appearance at the WellChild Awards, an annual event that celebrates the inspirational qualities of the U.K.’s ill children and young people and the people in their lives.