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Scottish Sun
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Fans convinced huge rock band are playing secret show in Glasgow TOMORROW
It comes as the rockers gears up for a summer of exciting gigs GIG MYSTERY Fans convinced huge rock band are playing secret show in Glasgow TOMORROW Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A CRYPTIC website has been launched hinting that a huge rock band could be playing in Glasgow. Biffy Clyro fans have been sent into meltdown after an online page was set-up under their former moniker Screwfish. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 3 Fans are convinced that Scots rockers Biffy Clyro are performing in Glasgow Credit: Getty 3 The website contains details of the mystery gig and a link to buy tickets Credit: The trio, from Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, performed their first gig in 1995 under the name. And now a web platform has been created which reads: "Screwfish, Glasgow, 21st May." A link takes punters onto Ticketmaster and displays details of a gig at SWG3 Warehouse in the city's west end. It comes ahead of a string of other exciting concerts for the band this summer. The rockers, comprising of Ben Johnston, Simon Neil and James Johnston, will take to the stage at this year's Eden Sessions, Glastonbury and BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend. Scores of fans rushed online to comments on the mysterious music revelation. One said: "Paid £80 for a couple of tickets to see some unknown band called Screwfish. "I hope it's not a massive band in disguise doing some intimate festival warm up gig cause that would suck." Another commented: "Can't wait to see Screwfish tomorrow." A third wrote: "So anyone else seeing 'Screwfish' tomorrow night?" It comes after Biffy teased their return on social media after frontman Neil was took on a side project with an up-and-coming heavy metal duo. Elsewhere the Scots rockers are gearing up for their slot on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage. After the announcement, the band posted the lineup on their Facebook page and said: "See you in June." It will be the fifth time the Many of Horror stars have performed at the legendary festival.
Extra.ie
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
KNEECAP's Wide Awake headline gig fate revealed
KNEECAP will perform as planned at this year's Wide Awake Festival in London on May 23. The festival released a statement on their social media saying that 'after positive discussions with key stakeholders, Wide Awake Festival can confirm that, as planned, KNEECAP will be performing at this years festival.' Wide Awake also added that it has 'a proud history of supporting the alternative music scene, and we look forward to staging another unforgettable event showcasing the very best emerging and established talent'. KNEECAP's headliner in Brockwell Park will mark their first live performance since Coachella, where they projected a slogan saying 'Fuck Israel, Free Palestine' that made international headlines In response to their statements at Coachella, the rap trio has faced what they have described as a 'smear campaign' from concert organisers. A series of scheduled gigs such as Eden Sessions and Plymouth Pavillions in the UK and Hurricane and Southside Festivals in Germany were cancelled. Along with the announcement, Wide Awake Festival shared a statement from KNEECAP's label Heavenly Recordings titled 'We Stand for Freedom of Expression', which included hundreds of signatories from the music industry including Fontaines D. C. and CMAT. Today, the Belfast group released the sale of T-shirts where they are depicted as 'WANTED' by UK counter-terrorism units, likely in reference to the UK police reviewing their concert footage. View this post on Instagram A post shared by KNEECAP (@kneecap32)
BBC News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Libertines to headline at Cornwall's Eden Sessions in summer
Indie rockers The Libertines are to headline the Eden Sessions in Cornwall in summer, it has been band, whose songs include Don't Look Back into the Sun and Can't Stand Me Now, will perform on Sunday 13, the final concert of the by Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, the group were part of a British guitar music revival in the early Sessions managing director Rita Broe said: "To welcome them to the Eden Sessions for what promises to be an unforgettable, one-day celebration feels incredibly special." Other acts in the finale concert include punk-folk performers Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls, Sports Team and Celtic punk band Mên An Broe said the gig would be "a fitting finale for this years' Sessions season".
Irish Daily Mirror
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
It's shock 'n' roll for Kneecap in music controversy but they are not the first
A controversy embroiling Irish band Kneecap has resulted in gig cancellations – but it is not the first time an outspoken group has been hit. The furore surrounding the Belfast trio resulted from comments in support of Palestine where 50,000 people have been killed by Israel in the last 18 months. Israeli bombing of Gaza has reduced the city to rubble and caused approximately 50,000 deaths, according to its health ministry. The current conflict in Gaza followed an attack by Hamas that killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. Israel's air and ground strike response has been condemned worldwide and criticised as genocide, including by high profile musicians Kneecap. They have since been banned from playing at this summer's Eden Sessions festival in Cornwall, England, while gigs have been axed in German cities Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne and British Tory MPs have called for them to be dropped by the Glastonbury music festival. The group was formed in 2017 by three friends who go by the stage names of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí. They made a semi-fictionalised movie starring Oscar-nominated Irish actor Michael Fassbender and it won a British Film Academy of Film Award (BAFTA) in February past. The band's manager Daniel Lambert claimed that they are now being targeted in a "concerted campaign" amid "moral hysteria". He insisted that the lost gigs are the price for speaking out. Lambert said: "It's not for us to worry, it's for us to have the strength of conviction that we did the right thing." NWA propelled gangsta rap to a shocked mainstream America in the late 1980s. Their genre-busting, revolutionary album Straight Outta Compton in 1988 was immediately controversial amid accusations of promoting racial division. Lyrics on track two on the album, F**k Tha Police, were said by the band to be against police brutality and racial profiling. But the lyrics were said by the FBI to incite violence against police and disrespect of the law. The lyrics include: "F**k the police comin' straight from the underground…Beat a police outta shape…F**k the police…Of any Uzi or an AK…Cause the police always got somethin' stupid to say…Without a gun and a badge, what do ya got?" The partly dramatised 2015 movie biopic Straight Outta Compton tells the story of how the band was warned by the police not to play the song at a gig in the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit in 1989. They played it anyway and 30 seconds later apparent gunshots went off, the band ran backstage, were arrested, and taken away. Jim Morrison's band The Doors experienced several controversies with the police. Perhaps most infamous was the time Morrison was arrested onstage in New Haven in Connecticut in 1967. He was accused of inciting a riot, indecency, and public obscenity after taunting the police during a gig. Music historians say Jim was sprayed in the face with mace by an overzealous cop who found him making out with a woman backstage. The officer did not recognise Morrison and apologised – but when Jim went onstage, the angry singer unleashed his vengeance and during the song Back Door Man. He told his fans that he had been maced by the policeman, taunted the force, and branded the cop a "little blue man in a little blue hat" as well as a "little blue pig." He told the crowd: "I'm just like you guys, man. He did it to me, they'll do it to you." That's when the cops stormed the stage and ended the gig by arresting Morrison – which caused riot and 13 more arrests. The charges against him were later dropped. Two years later, Morrison was charged with exposing himself at a concert in Miami. The first globally famous white hip-hop act, the legendary Beastie Boys, sparked controversy because of their fashion passion for car badges. Band member Mike D (Michael Diamond) wore street jewellery like VW badges around his neck which prompted fans across the world to copy his look. Volkswagen appealed for fans to stop – and soon, international news outlets reported how car manufacturers, including VW, BMW, Mercedes, and Audi, were all receiving reports of mass thefts from motors. They replaced customers' emblems free of charge in an attempt to mitigate against the bad publicity. When the band toured the UK in 1987, there were calls for their gigs to be axed and for the band to be deported. Probably the most famous band ever, The Beatles, ruled the world for a brief intense period from the moment they stepped off their Pan Am flight 101 from London to New York 61 years ago. That day in February 1964 in John F Kennedy Airport was the start of Beatlemania after they celebrated their first No1 hit in the US. The mania spiralled after that and in an interview in 1966, John Lennon suggested that the band had become "more popular than Jesus". America's fundamental Bible belt Christians were far from forgiving, called for them to be boycotted by radio stations, staged public burnings of their records and the Ku Klux Klan protested outside a concert. Ireland's late national treasure Sinead O'Connor, who sadly died in 2023, aged just 56, shocked the Catholic world in 1992 when she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II during a performance. She sang Bob Marley's song War on American show Saturday Night Live. Sinead then tore the picture to pieces, threw it on the ground, and said: "Fight the real enemy." The Catholic Church was embroiled at the time in a series of high-profile sexual abuse scandals in Ireland and across the world. The show's broadcaster NBC received thousands of complaints and Sinead was criticised by Italian-Americans like singer Madonna and actor Joe Pesci. Pesci said during the following week's episode that he had taped the picture back together, the live audience applauded. Three years before Madonna criticised Sinead O'Connor's protest against clerical abuse, Madonna incurred the wrath of the Vatican for a raunchy pop video in which she was accused by some Catholic groups of simulating sex with a black Jesus. Her controversial 1989 song Like A Prayer was the title track from her fourth studio album and tells the story of a young woman's romantic relationship with God. The lyrics' sexual undertones and a video scene of Madonna dancing in front of a field of burning crosses did not go down well. There was also the love scene between the singer and a black saint in a Catholic church. Religious conservatives branded the controversy appalling and the Vatican called for Catholics to boycott. When Pepsi used the song in a commercial, it also faced calls to be cancelled. Music companies say they don't like it, but history shows that banning a song from airplay guarantees record sales. When British dance band The Prodigy released Smack My Bitch Up in 1997, it was banned by the BBC. The Beeb also banned the video, citing nudity and claims of misogyny, while it would only sanction an instrumental version on air. The album The Fat of the Land was removed from stores in the US, the single was criticised by acts like Tori Amos and the Beastie Boys, and it was condemned by the UK's National Organisation for Women. But the band still topped the charts in both Britain and America. Elvis Presley's swinging hips got him in trouble after his gyrations on TV sent people wild. Afterwards, to spare viewers' blushes, the Elvis snake hips controversy meant he was hit with censorship. He could only be filmed from the waist up when he appeared on programmes like The Ed Sullivan Show. When Elvis first burst onto the music scene, pop culture was just emerging. The enthusiastic twists on stage of the young singer, who was in his early 20s, were branded vulgar and sexually aggressive. He was threatened with permanent censorship, but he eventually became the king. Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose sparked outrage 34 years ago when he dived off stage to attack a biker fan with a video camera. He was later charged with inciting a riot – but it was more to do with the band leaving the stage and ending the gig. The controversy unfolded at the Riverport Amphitheater in St Louis, Missouri, in 1991. Fans had been warned not to film the band – but one was recording them belt out Rocket Queen when frontman Rose lunged. He allegedly punched a fan and then criticised security bag checks when he climbed back on stage. Reports quote him saying: "Well, thanks to the lame-ass security, I'm going home." Damage worth thousands of dollars was caused during the riot, which included fans rushing the stage and destroying the band's instruments and equipment.
Irish Independent
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
All of the Kneecap gigs that have been cancelled amid UK counter-terrorism police probe
UK politicians are pushing for the group to be dropped from the Glastonbury Festival line-up while artists including Pulp, Paul Weller, DJ Annie Mac, Massive Attack and Primal Scream have defended the band. The footage from November 2023 appears to show one member of the group saying: 'The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.' The group apologised on Monday to the families of murdered MPs but claimed footage of the incident had been 'exploited and weaponised', while they also said they have 'never supported' Hamas or Hezbollah, which are both banned organisations in the UK. Cancelled Kneecap gigs Eden Sessions The Irish rap group were due to perform their first show in Cornwall at the Eden Project on July 4. An Eden Sessions spokesperson said on Tuesday: 'Eden Sessions Limited announced today that the Kneecap show at Eden Project scheduled for July 4 2025 has been cancelled. 'Ticket purchasers will be contacted directly and will be fully refunded. 'The refund process will commence from Wednesday, April 30 2025. Refunds will be processed against the original payment cards used. 'Purchasers should allow six working days for funds to be received into their accounts.' The Eden Sessions are a series of concerts which take place at the Cornwall botanical gardens yearly, with this year's series including performances from Biffy Clyro, The Script and Texas. The Streets frontman Mike Skinner was slated for a DJ set at the Kneecap concert. A reason for the show's cancellation was not given. Plymouth Pavilions After their Cornwall gig was cancelled, Moglai Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Provai announced they would be playing at Plymouth Pavilions on the date they were due to play at the Eden Project. On Thursday, a note on the Plymouth Pavilions website said the concert had been scrapped. 'Having taken advice from relevant authorities and agencies, it has been agreed that Kneecap's performance at our venue will no longer go ahead', it said. 'The safety of our valued visitors is always our primary concern and as such we feel confident in this decision – no further communications will be entered into.' German festivals On April 25 the band announced in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that they would no longer be performing at Hurricane or Southside Festival in Germany. In the post they included links to performances in Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg, taking place in September, and wrote: 'Tickets for our first ever German headline shows are ON SALE NOW with links below.' The ticket websites now say that the event has been 'cancelled'. Where will Kneecap be performing this summer? Following their cancelled performances in Cornwall and Devon, The Depo in Plymouth announced they would be holding Kneecap concerts on July 2, 3 and 4. The band are also supporting Irish rock band Fontaines DC at Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, in August and said that tickets for the show sold out within half-an-hour after they went on sale on April 25. In the UK and Ireland they are billed to perform at Wide Awake Festival in London on May 23, Fairview Park in Dublin on June 19 and Finsbury Park on July 5. There are also due to play at 2000trees rock festival on July 10, TRNSMT in Scotland on July 11, Wythenshawe Park in Manchester on August 15 and Belfast Vital on August 29. An MP and the Board of Deputies of British Jews have written to Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis urging them to remove the hip hop trio from their slot at the festival on Saturday June 28. Regarding the controversy and subsequent police investigation, festivals in the Netherlands and Czech Republic told the PA news agency that they are 'monitoring the situation'. A spokesperson for Paradiso Festival in Amsterdam said: 'We are following the news around Kneecap and are aware of the investigation currently being conducted by the Counter Terrorism Police. 'We will see what comes out of that investigation. We will then take the investigation results into consideration and decide if it has consequences for the shows at Paradiso.' Rock for People in the Czech Republic said in a statement: 'We understand your concerns. We will monitor the situation and will consider next steps.' Kneecap previously came under fire for their performance at Coachella on April 18 where they displayed messages about the war in Gaza. The PA news agency understands that none of the band's US tour dates for October have been impacted or cancelled while they are in the process of securing a new sponsor for renewed US visas. Kneecap has been contacted for comment.
