Mark Sutherland: Last News

Police investigations are continuing following the deaths of two teenagers in Lanarkshire and Glasgow over the weekend.

Mark Sutherland “I spend a lot of my time trying to plan these things,” Taylor Swift said with a grin — and with classic understatement — as she strapped on her acoustic guitar for the “surprise songs” segment of her “Eras” tour stop in Cardiff, Wales. “I like to challenge myself to do different things every night [so] every single show is unique.” Considering the unprecedented levels of attention the tour has attracted since it kicked off in Glendale, Arizona, 100 shows and over a year ago, this seemed like a bold statement.

Mark Sutherland As he picked up his Ivor Novello Award in London Thursday, Bruce Springsteen told a story about the first time he came to the U.K.’s capitol city. In 1975, Springsteen and his band arrived at Heathrow Airport famished, and went in search of a cheeseburger — only to find that such exotic cuisine had yet to make it to that side of the pond, with only fish ‘n’ chips available.

Last summer, concert-goers turned out in their droves wearing flamboyant cowboy hats and funky feather boas draped around their necks.They made their way to stadiums in cities across the UK, including London, Edinburgh and Manchester, to see the one and only Harry Styles as the Watermelon Sugar singer finally brought his Love on Tour shows to the British Isles after much delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But it was surely worth the wait. Reflecting on the summer gigs, Matt Owen, programming manager at Wembley, hails Love On Tour as “a remarkable moment” in the stadium’s history.

Mark Sutherland Burna Boy is on fire. In September, the Nigerian singer created a little slice of U.K. chart history as his seventh album, “I Told Them…,” went straight to No.

Police investigating the deaths of two teenagers who both attended an event at a Glasgow nightclub have confirmed they are not connected but suspected to be drug related. Two 18-year-old males died after DJ Ben Hemsley headlined a rave at a SWG3, on Eastvale Place in the West End, on Saturday.

Mark Sutherland “It’s getting increasingly difficult to tell the real from the fake these days,” Peter Gabriel said with a smile as he strolled nonchalantly onto the stage at London’s O2 Arena. “It might surprise you to learn that you’re looking at an avatar. But unlike the wonderful ABBA show just down the road, my avatar is 20 years older, 20 pounds heavier and completely bald. Meanwhile, I’m ripped and lying on a beach…” For some musicians of a certain age, the past is not a foreign country: They’re happy to do things exactly the same way today as they did back then. Not Peter Gabriel. He has always maintained a primary interest in evolution — human, musical and technological — and at 73, that has not changed.

Mark Sutherland “I know you didn’t come here to listen to this,” sighed Roger Waters as he surveyed the O2 crowd. With most aging rockers on a “first-ever farewell tour”, that statement would likely mean they were about to play some new material. At Roger Waters’ show, sadly, it meant he was about to sing the same old song. Sure enough, an extended rant against “the Israeli lobby” and British MP Christian Wakeford followed.  “They are trying to cancel me,” he claimed, to at first hesitant, but then louder applause. “And it hurts. We’ve done 80 shows and we’ve done nothing but share our love for people. That’s why I’m so pissed off with this Israeli lobby bullshit.” He also accused his critics of, “Making up stuff because you’ve been told to by your masters from the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv.”

Celtic fans made their voices heard as they marched through Glasgow on their way to Hampden, lighting up the city with the colours of green and white.

Mark Sutherland Lauren Laverne is buzzing with excitement. She woke up to the news that Lizzo had given her a shout-out from the stage at London’s O2 Arena. “Lauren Laverne played my record on Radio 6 and just like that, I was flying to England every other weekend,” declared the singer, who had her first major radio exposure on Laverne’s BBC 6 Music show back in 2013. “What an utter queen,” laughs Laverne, who has been helming the station’s flagship breakfast show since 2019. “For everybody at 6, it’s a dream come true to have a world-changing, game-changing artist standing up on stage and describing what we do. We’re this little greenhouse; we plant these seeds and what grows out of them, who knows?”

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor ABBA’s ‘Voyage’ virtual concert — which opened in a specially built London arena last May and has sold more than 1 million tickets — will go on a global tour, Universal Music Group chairman Lucian Grainge confirmed during the company’s earnings call on Thursday. “Plans are now in development to take ‘ABBA Voyage’ around the world,” Grainge said on the call. Presumably, that means the show will be playing in specially modified arenas in major cities across the globe. Contacted by Variety, reps for ABBA and Universal, the group’s label, did not immediately have further information. While details are slim and the news is not a shock, it is the first official confirmation that the show — a multi-multi-million-dollar project, nearly six years in the making, that saw George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic using motion-capture technology to create “ABBA-tars” of the group as they looked in 1979 playing a 90-minute concert of their most-loved songs — will play somewhere besides the London theater. While technically not a hologram show, “Voyage” represents a new peak in that type of technology — the four bandmembers, who are now in their seventies, spent many hours performing for the motion-capture cameras to appear as lifelike as possible. It has received rave reviews nearly across the board.

Supporters from Celtic and Rangers had organised pre-arranged access to Hampden Park before Ultras clashed outside the stadium today.

More than 900 officers had to be deployed to patrol a single Orange Order parade in Glasgow this year, it has been revealed.

A police officer has been injured after football fans attacked cops with furniture during a mass street brawl on a busy Glasgow road. The shocking scenes took place on Paisley Road West, near Seaward Street, on Saturday ahead of the clash between Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur at Ibrox Stadium.

Mark Sutherland “To be or not to be, that is no longer the question,” declared ABBA co-founder and musical mastermind Benny Andersson at the start of “ABBA Voyage,” the Swedish quartet’s first “concert” in over 40 years. And if that sounds like a curiously existential way to begin a pop concert, well, this is no ordinary live show.For a start, despite Andersson’s insistence that “This is really me, I just look very good for my age,” it’s actually his de-aged, computer-generated avatar — or “ABBA-tar,” if you must — that is speaking his pre-recorded words.

Cops made five arrests in Glasgow last night following Rangers' Europa League final loss.

Six Celtic fans were arrested and four given fixed penalty notices as thousands gathered in Glasgow yesterday to celebrate to club winning the Scottish Premiership title.

Video footage has captured the shocking aftermath of Celtic fans partying in Glasgow’s Trongate after reclaiming the Scottish Premiership title.

Officers are working on a "proportionate policing plan" to allow Rangers supporters to watch the Europa League final safely amid calls for fan zones to show the match in Glasgow.

Seven people were arrested during yesterday's Old Firm clash at Hampden Park.

Glasgow today following "outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing" by some people attending processions. Police have condemned the "utterly unacceptable" behaviour and say they have seen a number of people intent in "stirring up hatred" at some marches.