Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Sam Fender

Elmiene, Good Neighbours and Myles Smith make up all-male Brits Rising Star shortlist

The last male artist to win the prize, which tips British acts for pop success, was Sam Fender in 2019

The Guardian - UK

Indie, R&B and folk musicians up for Brits Rising Star prize

Since Sam Fender in 2019, the last five awards have been won by female acts, with the 2025 shortlist featuring an all-male line-up.

Evening Standard

Sam Fender announces three huge stadium headline shows to promote new album ‘People Watching’

In a record booking that overtakes The Rolling Stones, Sam Fender has announced three huge stadium headline shows for next summer in support of his forthcoming new album ‘People Watching’.

BANG Premier

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Sam Fender set to release new album People Watching in February

Sam Fender has shared the tracklisting and released date for his eagerly awaited third studio album.

BANG Premier

How to get tickets as Sam Fender announces London dates and stadium shows for 2025

He’ll be playing London and Newcastle before setting off on a 2025 tour of Europe

Evening Standard

Sam Fender shares album update

Sam Fender's third album has been recorded and mastered.

BANG Premier

Glastonbury confirms who will headline Pyramid Stage in 2025

Olivia Rodrigo and The 1975 will be coming to the fore alongside golden oldies Neil Young and Rod Stewart

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

"The impact and influence of music artists like The Beatles, Oasis and others from the north of England have had on the music industry in decades past is redoubtable" – so why are young northern musicians less supported than the rest of the UK?

A new report highlights a north / south divide emerging

MusicRadar

“An absolutely genius video presentation”: New video for Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single reveals who played what on the 50-guitarist-strong instrumental epic

The cleverly put together clip picks apart the many pieces of the nine-minute track, putting the spotlight on the track's A-list contributors

Guitar World

“Brian May did an entire section, about a dozen guitar harmonies:” Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single, Going Home, is released – but who played what?

Featuring over 50 A-list guitarists, the expanded Local Hero theme opens with Jeff Beck's final solo, has Joan Armatrading rocking on electric and May going harmony mad to raise money for teen cancer charities

MusicRadar

"I think what we’ve had is an embarrassment of riches, really" – Mark Knopfler announces all-star charity band with over 60 members with Gilmour, Ringo, Jeff Beck, Sting, Clapton and Brian May all onboard

They've recorded a new version of Knopfler's Going Home: Theme From Local Hero

MusicRadar

‘I’d take a mediocre album rather than nothing!’: the new music readers want to hear in 2024

Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?

The Guardian - UK

"People are having big songs, but big artists are not coming through" – former Columbia Records UK boss on the outlook for breaking into the mainstream

Ferdy Unger-Hamilton was Columbia Music UK president and has worked with some of the industry's biggest success stories since the '90s

MusicRadar

Indie band the Last Dinner Party win Brit awards’ Rising Star category

Award previously won by the likes of Adele and Sam Fender tips new artists for success

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Hayley Squires’s cultural highlights

The Bafta-nominated British actor on the book that broke her heart, a gig to remember with 50,000 Geordies, and Daniel Kaluuya’s new film

The Guardian - UK

Reading and Leeds festival review – Billie Eilish and the Killers thrill at bucket-hatted blowout

The post-GCSE audience is suitably boisterous at a festival that is keeping its remit admirably broad, from Foals’ intense rock to Bicep’s beautiful techno

The Independent UK

Reading Festival review, day two: The Killers deliver one of the great Reading headline sets

Despite a guest drummer who struggles to keep up, The Killers are back to full bombastic pelt and slaying harder by the minute

The Independent UK

Reading Festival 2023 review, day one: Foals give us that Friday fever, with help from Yard Act and Wet Leg

On one of Reading’s strongest opening days in years, no one drops the ball

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Leeds Festival 2023: Set times and how to watch acts on TV

It’s set to rain a little this weekend so don’t forget your wellies and raincoats

Evening Standard

Reading Festival 2023: Set times and how to watch acts on TV

Reading Festival 2023 will see the likes of Billie Eilish, Foals and The 1975 take to the main stage

Evening Standard

Holly Humberstone: ‘I feel like it’s a race to be successful as soon as I can’

With a Brit award and millions of streams to her name already, singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone is on her way to stratospheric success. Ahead of the release of her new single, she tells Alexandra Jones about learning to get out of her head and enjoy the ride

Chronicle Live

Newcastle's Paul Dummett heads to new city centre bar as Magpies contract extended

Long serving Newcastle United defender Paul Dummett was among guests at the launch of a new bar in the city

Chronicle Live

Andy Burnham under fire for 'patronising' Geordie music dig at Sam Fender on Twitter

Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has delivered a bizarre verdict on Sam Fender and his music on Twitter

Chronicle Live

Sam Fender's TRNSMT set 'missing' from BBC iPlayer as fans left fuming over festival coverage

Annoyed Sam Fender fans have hit out at the BBC as the singer's set at TRSMT failed to appear on iPlayer

Daily Record

Lewis Capaldi spotted in TRNSMT crowd as he supports friends LF System

The West Lothian superstar, a friend of headliner Sam Fender, wore a black hoodie and kept a low profile during LF System's closing set on the King Tut's stage.

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Last Dinner Party

84 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.