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Wales Online
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Live Euromillions results for Tuesday, June 17: The winning numbers from £208m draw and Thunderball
Below you'll find the winning numbers for tonight's Euromillions draw and Thunderball as they're picked. The Euromillions jackpot for Tuesday, June 17, was an enormous £208m. The Euromillions draw takes place every Tuesday and Friday and a ticket costs £2.50. That includes automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw which creates new UK millionaires every week. The overall jackpot can rise to €190m (approximately £167m). If you entered the Thunderball you stand to win up to £500,000. You can check your numbers below. Good luck! How many numbers do you need to win? If you have got two numbers or one number and two lucky stars or better then you are a winner. Players must match all five main numbers and two lucky star numbers to claim the jackpot. The Thunderball draw was also made tonight and the results will also be displayed below. The Thunderball draw takes place at 8pm and the Euromillions draw takes place at around 8.15pm. In May 2022 Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, became the UK's biggest-ever Euromillions winners after netting £184m with a lucky dip ticket. Their record did not last long, though, after another UK winner came forward in July 2022 to claim a jackpot of £195m. However they have not gone public. Prior to Mr and Mrs Thwaite's win the previous record was held by an anonymous winner who scooped £170m in October 2019. On June 4, 2021, a ticketholder in the UK scooped the £111m jackpot in the Friday-night draw, matching all seven numbers to become the country's ninth-biggest lottery winner ever at that stage. In June 2019 a single ticketholder in the UK won £123m in the Tuesday night Euromillions draw. It was the third-biggest Euromillions jackpot in the UK since the draw launched in 2004. It meant they instantly became as rich as Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James (£127m) and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (£125m). Euromillions is played in nine European countries. Get the results:
Perth Now
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Old school rock and roll to shine in one-night only show
Nostalgia seems to be everywhere at the moment. Whether it is reminiscing of simpler times before smartphones and the constant 'busyness' we seem to find ourselves in, or just a love of all things retro, a fondness for the past is real. A group that knows this well is The Zep Boys, a Led Zeppelin tribute band that has been around for five decades, shredding their way across stages worldwide. Your local paper, whenever you want it. Describing themselves as 'the ultimate concept band' with frontman Vince Contarino taking centre stage, the group and their band Kashmir Orchestra are unleashing on Crown Theatre on June 21 with their show, Zeppelin Soars Again. It is a powerful and exhilarating two hours of delicate and hard rock hits with howling vocals, dynamic rhythms and unbridled orchestral majesty, just as the original Led Zeppelin would have wanted. If belting out the high notes during a five decade successful career were not enough, the Zep Boys have recently been inducted into the Adelaide Festival Centre Walk of Fame, claiming the public choice star. 'I am overwhelmed with gratitude and humility for this wonderful recognition... this is such a special acknowledgement... Rock on!' Contarino said of the award. The night of nostalgia also includes Belle Hendrik channelling the raw, passionate energy of Janis Joplin, performing hits Mercedes Benz, Piece Of My Heart and Cry Baby amongst others. A performance that sounds as though it will be peak nostalgia that will honour the 60's Queen of rock and roll. A significant nod to legends of rock and roll past, with a significant dose of nostalgia, is sure to wow crowds of all ages.
Irish Independent
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Wicked' singalong and ‘The Salt Path' on Bray's packed summer cinema schedule
Bray People An afternoon of singing your favourite Wicked songs, while watching the hit new film, and an evening with one of this year's most moving book-to-screen adaptations, The Salt Path, headline the summer cinema schedule in Bray. With screenings at the Mermaid Arts Centre and some free open-air showings, movie-lovers have plenty to look forward to in the seaside town over the summer months, even when it's raining. The Wicked singalong is at the Mermaid on Saturday, July 12, with attendees encouraged to dress up as their favourite Wicked characters. It starts at 3pm. On Monday, July 14, the true story of Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, who embarked on a transformative 630-mile trek after losing their home and livelihood comes to the Mermaid screen at 8pm. The Salt Path is adapted from the book of the same name, written by Raynor to help Moth remember the trip they took that changed their lives in unimaginable ways. Steve Coogan's quirky new comedy The Penguin Lessons (August 4) is another 2025 release on the Bray calendar, as is the gritty feature film debut of British-Indian documentary maker Sandhya Suri, Santosh (August 25), which follows the story of a widowed woman who takes over her late husband's job as a police officer. She quickly becomes involved in a complex rural murder case. The Bray summer cinema schedule also includes screenings of music documentaries about John and Yoko (July 21) and Led Zeppelin (July 24), and Irish films and documentaries Blue Road The Edna O'Brien Story (June 19), Housewife of the Year (July 22), The Forest Midwife (July 25), Beat The Lotto (July 26), Fidil Ghorm (July 28), Four Mothers (August 11) Tickets for all Mermaid films are available at starting at €8. However, if it's open-air cinema you are after, screenings are free at the bandstand on Bray's seafront on Thursdays July 3, 17 and August 7. Movie titles will be announced closer to the time of each screening via social channels and all films will begin at 6pm and 8.30pm. They are of course weather dependent, and movie-goers should bring their own seating, snacks and drinks.
Time Out
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Stereophonic
Stereophonic playwright David Adjmi recently wrote an article for a major British newspaper in which he waxed effusively about how his Broadway smash had been inspired by the band Led Zeppelin. I wonder if his lawyer was holding a gun to his head as he wrote it, because while the Zep may have been a tertiary influence, Stereophonic is very very very very very very very clearly about Fleetwood Mac. There are Fleetwood Mac fan conventions less about Fleetwood Mac. Hell, there are incarnations of Fleetwood Mac that have been less about Fleetwood Mac. Specifically, it's a lightly fictionalised account of the recording of the Anglo-American band's mega-selling Rumours album, and while not every detail is the same, many are identical, from the cities it was recorded in (Sausalito then LA) to the gender, nationality and internal-relationship makeup of the band, to details like female members 'Holly' (aka Christine McVie) and 'Diana' (aka Stevie Nicks) moving out out the studio accommodation they were sharing with the band's menfolk in favour of their own condominiums. Which l hasten to say is all to the good, even if it frequently feels like a miracle that Stereophonic has stormed Broadway – becoming the most Tony-nominated play of all time – without being derailed by legal issues (though there is a lawsuit against it from Rumours producer Ken Caillet, who has accused Adjmi of ripping off his memoir). Of course, it is a great subject for a play. The story of how erstwhile blues noodlers Fleetwood Mac recorded one of the greatest pop albums in history, while breaking up with each other, while on drugs isn't simply a bit of pop trivia: it's a parable on the nature of the creative process. It's an incredibly tricky story to tell in a way that doesn't come across all VH1 Behind the Music. But Stereophonic carries it off spectacularly well. For starters, the veil of fiction allows Adjmi to portray Peter (Jack Riffiford, basically Lindsay Buckingham) and Reg (Zachary Hart, basically John McVie) as catastrophic fuck ups - the former toxic and controlling, the latter addled and out of control. The reason biographical musicals are uniformly terrible is that the musicians or their estate have to sign the content off before they'll allow their songs to be used, resulting in tediously flattering portraits. That does not happen here. For all their faults it's a pleasure spending time with these fuck ups And then there are the songs by erstwhile Arcade Fire man Will Butler. They don't sound anything like Fleetwood Mac really: at a pinch you could argue they sound like Arcade Fire gone '70s soft rock. The lyrics don't have the stinging rawness of Rumours – it would be clunky cosplay to try and write a song like 'Go Your Own Way' for this project. But they're rousing, emotional, layered tunes, written for a band with the same makeup of singers and instrumentalists as Fleetwood Mac, performed live by the cast. There's a notable scene in which the band go through endless takes of a track called 'Masquerade': spoiler etc, but the scene finally ends with them getting it right – the scene would fall flat if it wasn't a good song. So no, Butler hasn't written Rumours II, or even tried. But Daniel Aukin's production hinges on the songs written for it being good enough to feel credible, which is pretty audacious. Structurally, it's a three-and-a-bit-hour interrogation of the creative process that features little more than the band chatting to each other or recording. Set solely in a windowless studio, director Aukin has supreme confidence in the play's pacing and rhythms. There is a lot – like a lot – of fannying around over drum sounds and guitar tones, but the play leads us to the right psychological space to understand that there's much more to this than musos muso-ing. A blizzard of coke, exhaustion, the enormous pressure to follow up their previous album, and of course cataclysmic inter-band tensions all go some way to explain why the band and their affable engineers Grover (Eli Gelb) and Charlie (Andrew R Butler) find themselves agonising over every detail. There is a lot about gender and power here. If the broad brushstroke picture is 'band makes an album', the more nuanced one is 'two talented women try to assert themselves in a toxic male-dominated creative environment'. Both Holly (Nia Towle) and Diana (Lucy Karczewski) know their worth. But Holly has to negotiate the broken heart of her ex, Reg, who has pretty much fallen apart after she dumped him and needs to be looked after if they're actually going to make this record. Meanwhile Diana has to deal with the brittle, self-absorbed musical virtuoso Peter, who she's still in a relationship with. His natural sense of perfectionism has been curdled by resentment over Diana's rising star status in the band, and his many snarling putdowns of her work are deeply uncomfortable. Zoom in even closer, and it's the story of Diana stepping out from Peter's control – at the beginning she's subservient to him for the sake of keeping the peace, but she will soon reject this volcanically. It's worth stressing that Stereophonic is extremely entertaining, because it's a show about seven great characters, and the reason the characters are so great is largely because the IRL Fleetwood Mac are a great bunch of characters. For all their faults it's a pleasure spending time with these fuck ups, from Towle's tough, brassy Holly to Chris Stack's avuncular-but-edgy Simon (ie the Mick Fleetwood character). Knob twiddlers Grover and Charlie aren't based on famous people, but still counterbalance the story, a couple of guys who might have expected themselves to be out of their depth musically instead finding themselves totally stumped by the band's emotional problems If there's one thing beyond a degree of legal protection that Stereophonic obviously gains from not technically being about Fleetwood Mac, it's that it ends on a genuinely uncertain note, and not with, I dunno, the band slamming through 'The Chain' while stats about the album's colossal sales flash up. Was this tectonic creative process worth all the damage inflicted for the music it created? Rumours is so beloved now that it's hard to conclude the band should have actually sacked it off. And you'd probably say the same for the Stereophonic band to be honest. But without the quadrillions of sales and instantly recognisable tunes, the damage these people did to each other in the name of art is brought home with devastating eloquence.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
As Parade Winds Down, Vendors Clean Up
As thousands of parade onlookers streamed out of security pens Saturday evening looking to head home, Glenn Gordon tried to sell the last few shirts he had—all 2XLs. Gordon, 65, of Rehoboth Beach, Del., said he's been selling T-shirts for 48 years, including at Led Zeppelin concerts, though he spent years following the Grateful Dead.
