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Foals, Wolf Alice, Sleaford Mods, The Charlatans and Pale Waves.Per the establishment’s official website, it is “Derby’s longest serving and biggest grassroots independent live music venue”.Today (February 22), a post on The Venue’s social media pages confirmed that it would be closing for good this month. “Thank you for all the support over the years, it’s been a blast! x,” it reads.pic.twitter.com/EEbl4ers6x— The Venue – Derby (@TheVenueDerby) February 22, 2023In a separate tweet, booker Brett James wrote: “From 2015 I wanted to bring as much live music to Derby with quality over quantity at mind, The Venue being the home of this.  Countless shows, the ups, the downs the everything inbetween was a pleasure.“I managed to bring some of the biggest names in the industry to this little city of ours.

Sleeper have announced a special live show at The Garage in London – find all the details below.The Britpop band are due take to the stage on Friday, May 26 as part of the Highbury venue’s 30th anniversary celebrations. Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT today (February 17) – buy yours here.Sleeper first played at The Garage back in 1993.

Uh oh! It sounds like the stress from Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis’ former nanny’s allegations are taking a toll on the Don’t Worry Darling director and Harry Styles!

Louis Tomlinson has shared a new track called ‘Out Of My System’ and announced a 2023 UK and European tour – listen to the track below and buy tickets for the tour here.‘Out Of My System’ is the latest preview of the singer’s second solo album ‘Faith In The Future’, which follows his debut full-length effort, 2020’s ‘Walls’, and will be released on November 11. You can pre-order/pre-save the record here.Tomlinson’s forthcoming album was produced by Mike Crossey, who’s previously worked with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, The 1975 and Wolf Alice.

Wolf Alice have spoken about supporting Harry Styles on his recent European tour dates.The band opened for the pop star at shows in Paris, Stockholm and Berlin this summer as he toured his third album, ‘Harry’s House‘. In July the indie rock quartet’s final show saw lead singer and guitarist Ellie Rowsell join Styles on stage for a duet of her band’s 2021 single ‘No Hard Feelings’.“That duet was great.

BRIT Awards have been announced with the event set to be staged for the first time on a Saturday.The bash will be held on February 11 at the O2 Arena and will be broadcast on ITV again for the 30th year.Award organisers also announced that Managing Director of Atlantic Records, Damian Christian will be taking over as Chair of the BRIT Committee for 2023.Commenting on the new date, Christian said: “The BRITs is the biggest night of the year for the UK music industry, and we want as many eyes on it as possible as we showcase the best and most diverse British talent.

Louis Tomlinson has announced his second solo album ‘Faith In The Future’ – listen to new single ‘Bigger Than Me’ below.The former One Direction star will release the follow-up to his debut full-length effort, 2020’s ‘Walls’, on November 11. You can pre-order/pre-save the record here.Tomlinson’s forthcoming album was produced by Mike Crossey, who’s previously worked with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, The 1975 and Wolf Alice.

Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn has confirmed to NME that “three and a half” out of six main stage headliners have already been booked for 2023’s festival – as well as revealing his highlights of this year’s event.This past weekend’s edition of the twin-site iconic festival at Bramham Park in Leeds and Little John’s Farm in Reading was the second year of having two main stages and six headliners – with Arctic Monkeys, Megan The Stallion, Bring Me The Horizon, Dave, The 1975 and Halsey all topping the bill, alongside performances from the likes of Wolf Alice, Fontaines D.C., Run The Jewels, Pale Waves, Charli XCX, Polo G and many more.Speaking to NME backstage on the final day of the event, Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn said that significant progress had already been made securing many of 2023’s big acts.“We’ve booked three and a half headline acts,” he said. “Three are booked and one is pretty close to finishing.

Krept & Konan headlined the BBC 1Xtra stage on Saturday (August 27) – paying a loving tribute to their late friends and family.This marked the group’s first live performance since their Revenge Is Sweet tour,  with Krept telling the Reading crowd that they needed to “light this place up” with their phone torches in tribute before playing the emotive ‘Broski’ from their second album, ‘Revenge Is Sweet‘.“If you’ve ever lost someone, I need you to put your lights up,” he said ahead of the track inspired by the passing of the duo’s long-time friend and business partner, Nyasha “Nash” Chagonda. Chagonda took his own life days before the opening of the three’s restaurant, Crepes and Cones.

Poppy caught up with NME at Reading Festival 2022 to tell us what to expect from her upcoming EP ‘Stagger’. Watch our video interview with the nu-metal star above.Before making her main stage debut, the nu-metal star confirmed that her next record will be a four-track EP called ‘Stagger’ – following on from her acclaimed 2021 album ‘Flux‘ – and should be out by October.“Well the EP is consisting of four songs and I just feel like they are a mini-chapter in my life,” she told NME.

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.

Charli XCX and AJ Tracey have been announced by Reading & Leeds Festival as replacements for Måneskin and Jack Harlow.Earlier this week, the festival organisers released a statement saying they were “saddened” after it emerged that Måneskin and Harlow had pulled out of this year’s festival in order to attend the MTV VMAs.Harlow had been due to perform alongside Arctic Monkeys on Leeds Festival’s final day, with Måneskin appearing before Rage Against The Machine on Reading’s closing day (August 28) – the same day as this year’s VMAs in Newark, New Jersey.“We are working on some exciting replacements to join Arctic Monkeys, Dave, Bring Me The Horizon, The 1975, Halsey, Megan Thee Stallion, D-Block Europe, PinkPantheress, Joy Crookes, Fontaines DC, Bastille, Willow, Wolf Alice, Glass Animals, Hybrid Minds and many others at Reading & Leeds Festivals this August Bank Holiday weekend, watch this space!” R&L organisers said in their statement.The festival organisers have now announced that Charli XCX and AJ Tracey will be the acts replacing Jack Harlow and Måneskin on the line-up.You can see the amended line-up here:6 DAYS TO GO

VMAs, the music festival has said in a statement.The musicians were confirmed to play at the annual festivals, set for August 26 to 28, but have now been added to the line-up for the awards show in New York City on August 28.Reading and Leeds organisers issued a statement on the cancellation, saying: ‘We are saddened to hear that Jack Harlow and Maneskin have decided to perform at an award show the same weekend that they were confirmed to playing Reading & Leeds.‘We are working on some exciting replacements to join Arctic Monkeys, Dave, Bring Me The Horizon, The 1975, Halsey, Megan Thee Stallion, D-Block Europe, PinkPantheress, Joy Crookes, Fontaines DC, Bastille, Willow, Wolf Alice, Glass Animals, Hybrid Minds and many others at Reading & Leeds Festivals this August bank holiday weekend, watch this space!’Maneskin announced last week that they would not be performing at Reading and Leeds ‘due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts’.‘We love and miss the UK and all of our beloved UK fans and we’re absolutely gutted to no longer be able to play these shows,’ they added.‘We’re really excited for the year to come and want to thank you for your support and patience, we’ll hopefully be back in the UK soon and we can’t wait to see you at the O2 Arena in London next year.

Reading & Leeds Festival organisers have said that Måneskin and Jack Harlow pulled out of this year’s festival to play an awards ceremony.This year’s R+L falls on the same weekend that both acts will be performing at the MTV Video Music Awards.Harlow had been due to perform alongside Arctic Monkeys on Leeds Festival’s final day with Måneskin appearing before Rage Against The Machine on Reading’s closing (August 28) – the same day as this year’s VMAs in Newark, New Jersey.Måneskin, however, announced earlier this month that they were pulling out of this year’s Reading & Leeds due to “scheduling conflicts”.In a statement issued at the time on social media, the band wrote: “We are sad to announce that unfortunately due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, we are no longer able to perform at Readings & Leeds festival this year.

While it's nothing new, and we're certainly not complaining, Harry Styles' name is inescapable right now. Not content with scoring ten weeks atop the Official Singles Chart with As It Was, claiming the year's first Official Charts Double as Harry's House simultaneously nabbed Number 1, making moves in the beauty business with Pleasing and starring in upcoming movie Don't Worry Darling with girlfriend Olivia Wilde (that TRAILER, though), the One Direction star's now preparing to treat fans across Canada and the USA to Love On Tour.

Wolf Alice guitarist Joff Oddie has written an op-ed for NME regarding the ongoing problems for UK artists wishing to tour Europe post-Brexit, arguing that action is needed now for Britain to retain it’s “world-leading position” in music.Last year, the UK music industry spoke out together on how they had essentially been handed a “No Deal Brexit” when the government failed to negotiate visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits for musicians and crew. As a result, artists attempting to hit the road again after COVID found themselves on the predicted “rocky road” for the first summer of European touring after Britain left the EU.Last month, a study by Best For Britain – a group “pushing for closer relationships with Europe and the world” – showed that the number of British artists scheduled to perform in Europe as part of this year’s festival season had fallen by 45 per cent when compared to 2017-2019 (pre-Brexit).Today, NME published news of the industry insiders claiming that the first summer of touring post-pandemic proves that the ongoing situation is “strangling the next generation of UK talent in the cradle”, Wolf Alice’s Joff Oddie has written of the true scale of the problem and why the government should act on the recent report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music.“Live music really matters.

NME about how the first summer of post-pandemic touring has shown that the complications of Brexit are “strangling the next generation of UK talent in the cradle”.Last year, the UK music industry spoke out together on how they had essentially been handed a “No Deal Brexit” when the government failed to negotiate visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits for musicians and crew. As a result, artists attempting to hit the road again after COVID found themselves on the predicted “rocky road” for the first summer of European touring after Britain left the EU.As major touring across the continent returned after a two-year break due to the COVID pandemic, the spring saw artists, managers, and more tell us of how the “nightmare” of new red tape saw artists suffering due to “Brexit fuck-ups and a lack of government control” – with White Lies making headlines as one of the major acts forced to cancel dates in Europe due to their equipment being held up.Last month, a study by Best For Britain – a group “pushing for closer relationships with Europe and the world” – showed that the number of British artists scheduled to perform in Europe as part of this year’s festival season had fallen by 45 per cent when compared to 2017-2019 (pre-Brexit).Best For Britain CEO Naomi Smith told NME that the government needed to act now in order to open the pipeline of new UK talent to develop by being allowed to afford to tour in Europe.“Arguably, music is Britain’s most famous export, so it’s just insanity that the government is refusing to improve the Brexit deal for UK musicians and are strangling that next generation of talent in the cradle,” said Smith.

Sam Fender, Wolf Alice, Arlo Parks, Dua Lipa, George Ezra, Glass Animals, Griff, Lewis Capaldi, Mabel, PinkPantheress and Rag N’ Bone Man.Recent BPI research also highlighted that the pool of talent is coming from across the nations and regions of the UK with nearly two-thirds of the past year’s most successful UK albums having been recorded by solo artists and groups from outside of London.More than 120 UK artists whose debut albums have been released since 2015, each amassed more than 100 million global audio streams last year, according to BPI analysis of data from Luminate (formerly MRC Data).

Elbow and Easy Life have been announced as headliners for this year’s Glastonbury Pilton Party.Both acts will perform at the Worthy Farm bash, which will be held for the first time since 2019, on September 2. They also appeared on the Pyramid Stage during the summer.Every September, a few bands return to Worthy Farm for the annual bash, which is put on as a “thank you” fundraiser event for nearby residents and workers.The Velvet Hands and Inkara are also on this year’s bill.

The X Factor has released an extended cut of Harry Styles’ original auction for the talent show.A week after The X Factor expanded on how the show put together boy band One Direction, it’s now shared the original, extended cut of Styles’ addition as a solo artist prior to being put into the group.While it was Styles’ a capella rendition of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Isn’t She Lovely’ that was aired on television in 2010, Styles first performed a Train song, ‘Hey Soul Sister’, for the judges.In the clip, which you can watch below, Simon Cowell can be seen stopping Styles’ performance mid-song and asking him to sing without a backing track.“I don’t know whether it’s the track that’s throwing you, but can I hear something just you, without any music?” Cowell said.Styles then performed ‘Isn’t She Lovely’ before being put through to the next round of the competition – check out the moment here:The previously unseen footage also includes some talk about Styles’ former weekend bakery job and how his “mum’s always” told him he was a good singer.“I think I could do it, but I think with your help I could be a lot better than I am,” Styles said.In other news, during the last date of his European ‘Love On Tour’ run, Styles brought out Wolf Alice frontwoman Ellie Rowsell to duet on a cover of the opening band’s own song, ‘No Hard Feelings’.Wolf Alice opened for Styles on all 17 dates of the Euro trek, which wrapped up last night (July 31) in Lisbon, Portugal.