Manchester Arena will officially reopen on Saturday 9th of September with We Are Manchester – a special benefit concert to honour those impacted by May’s atrocities, and welcome back live entertainment fans to the Arena.
We Are Manchester will feature some of the city’s finest talent, alongside some of the biggest names in music. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Courteeners, Blossoms, Rick Astley and ‘Longfella’ poet Tony Walsh will perform to Manchester crowds along with a pre show DJ set from Clint Boon, with more acts to follow. Pixie Lott, Louisa Johnson and Manchester grime artist Bugzy Malone have also been added to the stellar line-up for the show.
All profits from the concert will raise money for the Manchester Memorial Fund, a charitable trust overseen by the Lord Mayor of Manchester which will go towards establishing a permanent memorial for the 22 May attack.
James Allen, General Manager of...
We Are Manchester will feature some of the city’s finest talent, alongside some of the biggest names in music. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Courteeners, Blossoms, Rick Astley and ‘Longfella’ poet Tony Walsh will perform to Manchester crowds along with a pre show DJ set from Clint Boon, with more acts to follow. Pixie Lott, Louisa Johnson and Manchester grime artist Bugzy Malone have also been added to the stellar line-up for the show.
All profits from the concert will raise money for the Manchester Memorial Fund, a charitable trust overseen by the Lord Mayor of Manchester which will go towards establishing a permanent memorial for the 22 May attack.
James Allen, General Manager of...
- 8/18/2017
- Look to the Stars
Alex Westthorp Oct 3, 2016
It's 40 years since Multi-Coloured Swap Shop made its television debut and kick-started the Saturday morning kids' TV slot...
Imagine the excitement - it's just before 9.30am on Saturday 2nd October 1976. It's almost like Christmas has come early, such is the anticipation. The nation's kids, who hitherto got their kicks at the Saturday morning pictures, settle in front of their television screens and press the button marked 'BBC1'. Those who read their parents' Radio Times know a new show is about to start with Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ Noel Edmonds at the helm. 28 year old Noel is cool and down with the kids. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen - the Doctor and Sarah Jane from Doctor Who - are to be the first star guests, and you can actually speak to them live by telephone! The TV set warms up and the familiar blue and yellow BBC...
It's 40 years since Multi-Coloured Swap Shop made its television debut and kick-started the Saturday morning kids' TV slot...
Imagine the excitement - it's just before 9.30am on Saturday 2nd October 1976. It's almost like Christmas has come early, such is the anticipation. The nation's kids, who hitherto got their kicks at the Saturday morning pictures, settle in front of their television screens and press the button marked 'BBC1'. Those who read their parents' Radio Times know a new show is about to start with Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ Noel Edmonds at the helm. 28 year old Noel is cool and down with the kids. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen - the Doctor and Sarah Jane from Doctor Who - are to be the first star guests, and you can actually speak to them live by telephone! The TV set warms up and the familiar blue and yellow BBC...
- 9/28/2016
- Den of Geek
Ant & Dec have revealed that they feared for their careers following the phone-in scandal involving their shows.
Back in 2007, it emerged that phone-in competitions had been rigged on their ITV shows Gameshow Marathon and Saturday Night Takeaway.
ITV was later fined over £5 million by TV regulator Ofcom in relation to the misconduct.
Declan Donnelly told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs: "We thought that was probably it. I think the viewers would have been justified in thinking their trust had been breached and if that had been the end I don't think we could have had many complaints.
"It was, without doubt, our worst moment, our worst point. Totally. We couldn't quite comprehend how it was allowed to happen."
Ant McPartlin added: "I think our audience trust us and with that case we worried that the trust had gone.
"It did affect us... it was probably the worst part of our career.
Back in 2007, it emerged that phone-in competitions had been rigged on their ITV shows Gameshow Marathon and Saturday Night Takeaway.
ITV was later fined over £5 million by TV regulator Ofcom in relation to the misconduct.
Declan Donnelly told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs: "We thought that was probably it. I think the viewers would have been justified in thinking their trust had been breached and if that had been the end I don't think we could have had many complaints.
"It was, without doubt, our worst moment, our worst point. Totally. We couldn't quite comprehend how it was allowed to happen."
Ant McPartlin added: "I think our audience trust us and with that case we worried that the trust had gone.
"It did affect us... it was probably the worst part of our career.
- 12/29/2013
- Digital Spy
Tony Fletcher/Tom Hingley 26 November 2012 Waterstones Deansgate, Manchester
Just around the corner from this evening's Manchester proceedings, I once saw an elderly British actor make an early afternoon appearance in the hallowed arena known as the Royal Exchange Theatre. The thespian in question was Dirk Bogarde, who was promoting one of his self-seeking, closeted novels, with which he interspersed his equally closeted and self seeking volumes of autobiography. Bogarde wasn't averse to selling himself, although he was very particular about the parts he chose to throw into the marketplace.
Bogarde admitted that in his days as a matinee idol in the 1950s he had to resort to sewing up the button flies of his sharp suits with dark cotton. In the ensuing scrum of over-heated ladies, whose varnished fingernails immediately went for the area they weren't supposed to access, this was his only means of preventing over-exposure, although it didn't...
Just around the corner from this evening's Manchester proceedings, I once saw an elderly British actor make an early afternoon appearance in the hallowed arena known as the Royal Exchange Theatre. The thespian in question was Dirk Bogarde, who was promoting one of his self-seeking, closeted novels, with which he interspersed his equally closeted and self seeking volumes of autobiography. Bogarde wasn't averse to selling himself, although he was very particular about the parts he chose to throw into the marketplace.
Bogarde admitted that in his days as a matinee idol in the 1950s he had to resort to sewing up the button flies of his sharp suits with dark cotton. In the ensuing scrum of over-heated ladies, whose varnished fingernails immediately went for the area they weren't supposed to access, this was his only means of preventing over-exposure, although it didn't...
- 11/29/2012
- by robert cochrane
- www.culturecatch.com
Speakers include Col Needham, founder and head of IMDb.com, who grew up in Denton and worked in Curry's at Stockport
"Build it and they will come". That was very much the philosophy that led to the creation of Screen Stockport Film Festival around two years ago. What started out as making a short film with my friends, turned into a desire to create a film festival in Stockport to give fellow young filmmakers an opportunity to share their films with an audience.
Screen Stockport was then born, with the ambition of it becoming an inclusive, grassroots film festival for filmmakers of all ages and experiences. I wanted to give young people who aspired to have a career in the media an environment to share their passion and enthusiasm with other creatives and connect with industry professionals from the North West.
This year we're at the Plaza Super Cinema in...
"Build it and they will come". That was very much the philosophy that led to the creation of Screen Stockport Film Festival around two years ago. What started out as making a short film with my friends, turned into a desire to create a film festival in Stockport to give fellow young filmmakers an opportunity to share their films with an audience.
Screen Stockport was then born, with the ambition of it becoming an inclusive, grassroots film festival for filmmakers of all ages and experiences. I wanted to give young people who aspired to have a career in the media an environment to share their passion and enthusiasm with other creatives and connect with industry professionals from the North West.
This year we're at the Plaza Super Cinema in...
- 10/10/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Noel Gallagher would still be a roadie if his music career hadn't worked out. The former Oasis star went on the road with indie band the Inspiral Carpets back in the late Eighties. And he believes that would have been his job for life if success hadn't come his way. He told The Sun newspaper: 'I would have been out there now, probably in an ill-fitting black T-shirt with a tattoo and some scruffy Converse trainers. Because that is what they all wear.' Despite the different sense of fashion he may have had, Noel admitted that his speedy skills on the job would have worked well with the outfits often associated with the musical technicians. He continued: 'But I was...
- 8/23/2012
- Monsters and Critics
In music, film, art and fashion, the 1990s are now making a comeback. But is this driven by nostalgia or does it reflect a shift in the national mood?
Between the whitewashed walls of Visions Video Bar, a London club, a crush of brothel creepers and flannel shirts throws spry shapes in the air as Nas's NY State of Mind segues deftly into Camp Lo's Luchini. "Tune!" howls a boy in a peaked cap to his girlfriend with an undercut.
London in the 90s? Wrong. This is Dalston in east London last weekend.
For many of us, the 90s was a decade imbued with anti-fashion, grunge and naff hair, seemingly mercifully resistant to a revival. But with the return of "Madchester" stalwarts the Stone Roses, a proliferation of grunge on the catwalk and yet another sequel to American Pie, it seems that the 90s are making a return.
From art...
Between the whitewashed walls of Visions Video Bar, a London club, a crush of brothel creepers and flannel shirts throws spry shapes in the air as Nas's NY State of Mind segues deftly into Camp Lo's Luchini. "Tune!" howls a boy in a peaked cap to his girlfriend with an undercut.
London in the 90s? Wrong. This is Dalston in east London last weekend.
For many of us, the 90s was a decade imbued with anti-fashion, grunge and naff hair, seemingly mercifully resistant to a revival. But with the return of "Madchester" stalwarts the Stone Roses, a proliferation of grunge on the catwalk and yet another sequel to American Pie, it seems that the 90s are making a return.
From art...
- 2/12/2012
- by Morwenna Ferrier
- The Guardian - Film News
Inspiral Carpets will support Happy Mondays on their upcoming May tour. The Mondays this week officially confirmed a reunion with their full original lineup for an 11-date tour this spring. Organisers have confirmed that Inspiral Carpets will now support their fellow Manchester band on the UK jaunt. The full Happy Mondays tour dates are as follows:
May 3 - Newcastle O2 AcademyMay 4 - Glasgow O2 AcademyMay 5 - Manchester ArenaMay 6 - Sheffield O2 AcademyMay 9 - Bournemouth O2 AcademyMay (more)...
May 3 - Newcastle O2 AcademyMay 4 - Glasgow O2 AcademyMay 5 - Manchester ArenaMay 6 - Sheffield O2 AcademyMay 9 - Bournemouth O2 AcademyMay (more)...
- 1/30/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Former Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll has hinted that Wayne Rooney may buy his old drumkit off him. The musician, who left Oasis after featuring on their 1994 album Definitely Maybe, took the band to court in 1999 to claim lost profits from his time working with them. He finally took £600,000 as an out-of-court settlement, but has now admitted that he may sell off his old memorabilia after struggling to maintain a career over the past decade. McCarroll told The Sun: "I've never taken advantage of the Oasis connections over the years. There have been a lot of offers and opportunities but I just never felt the need to. "I've been living a really normal life, nothing much has been going on. I've been looking into DJing with Clint Boon." Speaking about selling his Oasis drumkit, (more)...
- 1/25/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Inspiral Carpets have announced a brand-new single and details of a full UK tour for March 2012. The Manchester band, who recently reformed with their first ever frontman Stephen Holt, release 'You're So Good For Me' on limited vinyl and CD on January 3, Xfm reports. The track is available on iTunes now and backed with a rerecorded version of early song 'Head for the Sun'. Holt replaced Tom Hingley, who was the band's singer for their classic period from 1989 to 1995 and again from their 2003-2011 reunion. Inspiral Carpets (more)...
- 11/21/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
London, Sept 3: British rock band Inspiral Carpets is said to have snubbed Noel Gallagher when he auditioned as their frontman after singer Stephen Holt first quit in the 1980s.
The band parted ways with Holt in 1989 and fellow Manchester native Gallagher, 44, tried out as the star's replacement - but the remaining members decided he wasn't good enough.
The then-aspiring rocker went on to garner worldwide success in Oasis with his brother Liam Gallagher.
Now Inspiral Carpets keyboardist Clint Boon has said he can only imagine how famous they might be had they signed Noel to the band.
"When.
The band parted ways with Holt in 1989 and fellow Manchester native Gallagher, 44, tried out as the star's replacement - but the remaining members decided he wasn't good enough.
The then-aspiring rocker went on to garner worldwide success in Oasis with his brother Liam Gallagher.
Now Inspiral Carpets keyboardist Clint Boon has said he can only imagine how famous they might be had they signed Noel to the band.
"When.
- 9/3/2011
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Singer Stephen Holt has returned to Inspiral Carpets after 22 years. The Oldham band, whose had a 1990 number two album with Life, have been without a frontman since February when lead singer Tom Hingley decided to quit. Bassist Clint Boon told Xfm: "We've not actually started writing new material yet, but we are getting in the studio with the intention of doing just that. "We're also going to be re-recording some of the songs we did back in the mid to late '80s. We're celebrating the birth of the band and going back to the garage-y roots." Inspiral Carpets will make their return with original (more)...
- 9/1/2011
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
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