OHMYGOSSIP — Cher has officially announced her festive album ‘Christmas’ and released the lead single, ‘DJ Play A Christmas Song’.
The ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ hitmaker has unveiled her first album in five years, which boasts an array of artists, including Stevie Wonder, Michael Bublé, Cyndi Lauper, Darlene Love, and most interestingly, rapper Tyga.
The 13-track album includes four new original songs, including the lead single.
‘What Christmas Means To Me’ is with Stevie Wonder and ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ with Darlene, who first recorded the song with Phil Spector and a teen Cher, on backing vocals.
Cher has also recorded a rendition of Bublé’s ‘Home’ with the man himself.
The 77-year-old star commented: “I never say this about my own records but I’m really proud of this one. It is one of the most amazing highlights of my career.”
Cher loved getting Motown icon Stevie involved.
She added: “Every time I hear that harmonica, I’m a teenager again. It’s a personal dream come true for me to record this song with Stevie.”
Cher and ‘Rack City’ hitmaker Tyga have recorded the new song ‘Drop Top Sleigh Ride’, which is produced by her boyfriend, Alexander Edwards, and Mike Crook and Ryan OG.
‘True Colors’ hitmaker Cyndi is featured on ‘Put A Little Holiday In Your Heart’.
The full album will arrive on October 20, giving it plenty of time to have a chance of being a festive hit this December.
Meanwhile, next month will see Cher celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Grammy-winning ‘Believe’ with the release of ‘Believe 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)’ on Warner Records.

‘Christmas’ tracklisting:
1. DJ Play A Christmas Song
2. What Christmas Means To Me (with Stevie Wonder)
3. Run Run Rudolph
4. Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) [with Darlene Love]
5. Angels In The Snow
6. Home (with Michael Bublé)
7. Drop Top Sleigh Ride (with Tyga)
8. Please Come Home For Christmas
9. I Like Christmas
10. Christmas Ain’t Christmas Without You
11. Santa Baby
12. Put A Little Holiday In Your Heart (with Cyndi Lauper)
13. This Will Be Our Year

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OHMYGOSSIP — BLACKPINK star Jennie has released her new solo tune, ‘You and Me’.
The K-pop star has released the original version of the dance song and the remix version ‘You and Me (Coachella ver.)’ – from the South Korean girl group’s Coachella performance in April and BST Hyde Park shows in July.
She sings: “Nothing in the world can make me feel the way you do, the things you do.
“I love you and me, dancing in the moonlight / Nobody can see, it’s just you and me tonight.”
It also comes with a striking music video set against the backdrop of a giant moon with an epic choreography that sees Jennie taking centre stage.
YG Entertainment said: “We hope the song becomes a special gift through which fans remember their memories from ‘Born Pink’ tour.”
‘You and Me’ was first performed during BLACKPINK’s ‘Born Pink’ world tour stop at the KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea in October.
It marks the 27-year-old star’s first solo release since 2018’s ‘Solo’.
Jennie recently teased a new song that is unique to her is on the way.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar Korea and translated to English by Korea JoongAng Daily, she said: “I’m making a song that’s by Jennie, the most Jennie and something unique that is only Jennie’s.”
Jennie recently teamed up with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp on the track ‘One Of The Girls’ from their HBO series ‘The Idol’.
Meanwhile, YG Entertainment recently rubbished a report that suggested Jennie and bandmate Jisoo – who are joined by Lisa and Rosé in the ‘Pink Venom’ group – are planning to launch their own “one-man agency”.
The label also insisted that BLACKPINK’s contract renewal negotiations are still ongoing.
The entertainment agency said in a statement: “Nothing has been confirmed regarding BLACKPINK’s contract renewals and their future activities.”
It had been claimed that only Rosé was going to renew her contract with YG.
The four-piece is the highest-charting female Korean act on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 13 with ‘Ice Cream’ in 2020, and on the Billboard 200, peaking at number one with their second studio album, 2022’s ‘Born Pink’, which is the best-selling album of all time by a female act in South Korea and the first to sell more than two million copies.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Drake has released ‘For All The Dogs’, featuring a second collaboration with SZA – but no Nicki Minaj appearance as previously teased.
Hours after he unveiled the mammoth 23-song tracklisting for his hotly anticipated album and confirmed the imminent release date, the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Honestly, Nevermind’ is here.
After delaying the release slightly from September 22, the ‘Rich Flex’ rapper shared the song titles on social media, but no featured artists, although his recent hit collaboration with former flame SZA, ‘Slime You Out’, appeared.
However, the features became clear when the album dropped, with SZA also lending her vocals to ‘Rich Baby Daddy’ alongside rapper Sexxy Red.
But there is no sign of Nicki.
Drake had claimed the ‘Super Freaky Girl’ hitmaker was on a track on the LP during his concert in Detroit in July.
He told the crowd: “I’m gonna give away one thing for you tonight, because I got a lot of love for Detroit.
“So I’m gonna have to tell you that me and Nicki Minaj did our first song together in, like, a really long time. I got a lot of love for her.”
Nicki also told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1: “I know the world’s going to love the song, and that’s all I will say about that.”
She then quipped: “But, no, Zane, Barbz, make sure y’all let Drizzy Drake know that Pink Friday 2 is coming out November 17th as well. And we are waiting on his contribution.”
Other features include J. Cole on ‘First Person Shooter’, Bad Bunny on ‘Gently’ and Lil Yachty on ‘Another Late Night’.
Drake’s ‘Her Loss’ collaborator 21 Savage also appears on the track ‘Calling For You’.
The record was released at 6am EST on Friday (06.10.23), which is 11am UK time.
The 36-year-old superstar jokingly apologised to fans streaming the record for the length.
He wrote on Instagram alongside the tracklist: “FOR ALL THE DOGS
OCTOBER 6
6AM
“(Sorry to all my streamers).”

The tracklist for Drake’s ‘For All The Dogs’ is:
‘Virginia Beach’
‘Amen’ featuring Teezo Touchdown
‘Calling For You’ featuring 21 Savage
‘Fear Of Heights’
‘Daylight’
‘First Person Shooter’ featuring J. Cole
‘IDGAF’ featuring Yeat
‘7969 Santa’
‘Slime You Out’ featuring SZA
‘Bahamas Promises’
‘Tried Our Best’
‘Screw The World Interlude’
‘Members Only’ featuring PARTYNEXTDOOR
‘Drew A Picasso’
‘What Would Pluto Do’
‘All The Parties’ featuring Chief Keef
‘8AM In Charlotte’
‘BBL Love Interlude’
‘Gently’ featuring Bad Bunny
‘Rich Baby Daddy’ featuring Sexxy Redd and SZA
‘Another Late Night’ featuring Lil Yachty
‘Away From Home’
‘Polar Opposites’

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rock legends Manic Street Preachers and Suede are embarking on a joint UK and Ireland tour next summer.
The two bands have a long history together, having first hit the road on a European jaunt back in 1993, and last year they shared the stage for a new run across the US.
They have two shows still to complete in Tokyo, Japan, on November 18 and 19.
And then, the ‘A Design For Life’ and ‘New Generation’ groups will reunite back home in June and July 2024 for the huge outdoor shows.
The run kicks off in Llangollen in Wales on June 28, and wraps at London’s Alexandra Palace Park on July 18.
Both bands will be taking turns to close the concerts.
Tickets go on sale 9am Friday 13th October via www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk. For Ireland, tickets will be available via www.ticketmaster.ie.
The tour news comes as the Manics are hard at work on a follow-up to ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, which reached number one in September 2021.
As for Suede, they are riding high on the success of their 2022 LP ‘Autofiction’, which made it to number two in the Official UK Album Chart.
The much-lauded record was Suede’s highest charting LP since 1999’s ‘Head Music’.
They also had their own sold-out UK run in March.
Suede have had three number one album albums in the UK, but frontman Brett Anderson still feels they have “a lot to prove”.
In an interview with The Sun newspaper last year, he said: “I’d like to think we might get there eventually, that’s all part of my quest.
“It always feels like we’ve got a lot of prove. We have to keep looking for something better even if perfection is an illusion, like infinity.
“We try to make a great record but it’s never quite as good as I want it to be.
“That’ll be the next one!”

The 2024 UK and Ireland Tour dates:
Friday 28 June. Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod*
Tuesday 2 July, Dublin Trinity College **
Friday 5 July, Cardiff Castle *
Wednesday 10 July, Edinburgh Castle *
Friday 12 July, Manchester Castlefield Bowl *
Saturday 13 July, Leeds Millenium Square **
Thursday 18 July, London Alexandra Palace Park **

*Manic Street Preachers close the show
**Suede close the show

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kylie Minogue has admitted her Las Vegas venue “hasn’t even finished its build yet”.
The ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ singer is set to open her Sin City residency in less than a month as she takes over The Venetian Resort, but she’s getting nervous because the Voltaire venue she’s set to launch hasn’t actually been built yet and it could go “down to the wire”.
She’s quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column as saying: “I open at the start of November.
“We’re just in the stages of putting it together, the venue hasn’t even finished its build yet.
“I’m sure it’s going to be down to the wire with plenty of drama.”
The 55-year-old singer did give a bit of a hint of what fans can expect from the Voltaire venue, as she revealed inspiration has been drawn from the likes of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley’s time in Vegas.
She teased: “It’s based on a mix between a 1930s club and a 1970s kind of Frank Sinatra, Elvis venue where there were booths and lamps and cocktails.
“Later in the evening there will be me but prior to that it’s meant to be part of a bigger experience.”
Kylie – who recently topped the US Billboard Dance Albums chart with her new record ‘Tension’ – will be treating fans in the United States to a show featuring her biggest hits and plenty of surprises.
Meanwhile, she’s excited to be playing in such an “intimate” setting for her residency, which she has described as her “rite of passage”.
She added: “I’m so excited about it. It’s in a really intimate venue, it’s capped at a thousand people.
“It’s my rite of passage having my Vegas residency. We’re creating a pretty punchy show for a small venue.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Maren Morris has revealed why she stepped away from country music – insisting she “couldn’t do the circus anymore”.
The 33-year-old singer admitted “a lot of things” about her “changed” after 2020, but she still loves Nashville despite distancing herself from the genre.
She told The New York Times’ ‘Popcast’ podcast: “I love living in Nashville, I have my family. There’s a reason why people come there from L.A. and New York to write with us. It’s because we have amazing songwriters there. That’s not gonna change.
“I couldn’t do this circus anymore – feeling like l have to absorb and explain people’s bad behaviours and laugh it off.
“I just couldn’t do that after 2020 particularly. I’ve changed. A lot of things changed about me that year.”
Maren insisted she wasn’t “leaving country music” entirely, but admitted she “certainly can’t participate in a lot of it”, and she is now doing her “own thing”.
Last month, Maren revealed she was switching record labels from Columbia Nashville to Columbia Records because she began to feel “very, very distanced” from the industry and its politics.
She told the Los Angeles Times newspaper of country music: “I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over. But it’s burning itself down without my help.”
The ‘Get the Hell Out Of Here’ singer has been a vocal supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and the Black Lives Matter movement, and she admitted pushing for change only led to her feeling isolated.
She said: “I’ve always been an asker of questions and a status quo challenger just by being a woman. So it wasn’t really even a choice.
“The further you get into the country music business, that’s when you start to see the cracks. And once you see it, you can’t un-see it…
“If you truly love this type of music and you start to see problems arise, it needs to be criticized. Anything this popular should be scrutinised if we want to see progress.
“But I’ve kind of said everything I can say. I always thought I’d have to do middle fingers in the air jumping out of an airplane, but I’m trying to mature here and realize I can just walk away from the parts of this that no longer make me happy.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Paul McCartney has revealed a bizarre lyric in ‘Eleanor Rigby’ was inspired by his mother’s love of Nivea face cream.
The Beatles legend has launched the podcast ‘McCartney: A Life In Lyrics’, in which he delves into the meaning behind some of his hits, and the first episode was all about the classic tune from the legendary Liverpool group’s 1966 album ‘Revolver’.
The lyric in question was: “Wearing a Face That She Keeps in a Jar by the Door.”
McCartney, 81, started off by revealing the song title was named after a grave he and his late bandmate John Lennon used to frequent.
Speaking to the co-host of the 12-part series, poet Paul Muldoon, he recalled: “There is a grave which John and I wandered around endlessly talking about our future.
“And there is a grave there [with the name Eleanor Rigby]. I don’t remember ever having seen that gravestone but it’s been suggested to me that psychologically I would have seen it.”
He then shared: “My mum’s favourite was Nivea and I love it to this day. It kind of scared me a little that women used quite so much cold cream, and it was my dread, when I got older and got married, that I would marry someone who would [wear a lot of cold cream] and put one of those big shower caps on and the curlers and have masses of things… So that played on my mind quite a bit, so she’s wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door.”
The ‘Let It Be’ hitmaker also shared the deeply tragic film idea he had in his head while penning the lyrics.
He said: “What I was seeing was like a film, just in my imagination. I’ve got two protagonists that are lonely, she and then him. You don’t feel so sorry for him, but he’s lonely. So ‘all the lonely people now’, becomes the chorus… She dies and he’s the one who buries her, and he’s wiping his hands as he walks from the grave, ‘no one was saved’ and that’s the wrap-up to the story.”
McCartney also discussed their 1968 song ‘Back In The USSR and how the Soviet Union inspired it.
The podcast is inspired by the pair’s book ‘The Lyrics: 1965 to Present’.
The episode is available now wherever you get your podcasts.
A second batch of 12 episodes will air in February next year.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Richard Ashcroft is set to play a huge outdoor show in Essex next summer.
The former Verve frontman is the first act confirmed for the Heritage Live concert series in 2024, with the musician set to rock the picturesque Audley End House and Gardens on August 3.
The ‘A Song For The Lovers’ hitmaker will be joined by Britpop stars Ocean Colour Scene and former Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan.
As well as Verve classics, which include ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’, ‘Bittersweet Symphony’, ‘Lucky Man’ and ‘Sonnet’, fans can expect to hear Richard’s acclaimed solo tunes.
Promoter Giles Cooper of GCE Live said: “We’re delighted to announce the first show of what will be our sixth year bringing live concerts to Audley End, one of the most beautiful venues in the country. It was a hugely successful year in 2023, and we already can’t wait for 2024.
“We’re really excited to announce Richard Ashcroft as the first headliner for next year. I remember seeing The Verve’s first-ever London gig at the King’s Head pub in Fulham in 1991, when I worked at NME, with just ten people in the audience. They were signed later that night, and over 30 years later Richard has cemented himself as one of rock’s truly iconic frontmen.”
Tickets for the show will go on pre-sale on October 11 at 9am, and fans must register via arep.co/p/richard-ashcroft-2024.
Tickets will then go on general sale on October 13 at 9am from axs.com/heritagelive.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Mick Jagger has released a second collection of harmonicas due to demand.
The Rolling Stones frontman’s first range of mouth organs flew off the shelves earlier this year and sold out in a month.
Now, the 80-year-old music legend – who plays the harmonica on the likes of Stones tracks ‘Midnight Rambler’ and ‘Gimme Shelter’ – is back with ‘Mick Jagger Series: Edition Two’, proving the instrument is still as possible as ever.
The harmonics are part of a partnership with whynow Music and Lee Oskar.
The latter was the original harmonica player for rock-fusion legends War and started manufacturing his own harmonicas in 1983.
The ‘Sweet Virgina’ rocker said: “I was blown away by the response to our first range of harmonicas! I hope everyone has enjoyed playing their harps, and that more people are falling in love with my favourite instrument. With artists like Little Nas X and Kendrick Lamar using it in their music today, I’m confident that the harmonica will be gracing stages around the world for a long time to come.”
The design includes a Mick Jagger logo in black on a striking red harp.
One harmonica in the key of C costs £59, or there is the limited edition box set embossed with Mick Jagger script and an editioned insert, comprising three harmonicas in the keys of A, C and G and priced at £300.
The second line is released alongside a limited edition run of black and white Mick Jagger t-shirts, available online only for £55. Head to mickjagger.com to make a purchase. Selected Lee Oskar stores are stocking the line.

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OHMYGOSSIP — James Bond composer David Arnold is embarking on a unique tour.
The iconic British film composer – whose credits include scoring five Bond films, as well as ‘Stargate’, ‘Independence Day’ and ‘Godzilla’ – is taking to the road for ‘David Arnold – The Songs: Live’, which will see him and his band perform songs from across his career in a “stripped back, never before seen style”.
As well as some “surprises” along the way, David will share the secrets of his craft with audiences.
His storied career has also seen him compose music for TV’s ‘Good Omens’ and ‘Sherlock’, whilst he’s also collaborated with artists such as Bjork, Massive Attack and Pulp.
David was the Musical Director for the historic 2012 London Olympics Closing Ceremony, which saw him work with The Who and the Spice Girls.
The tour begins on November 19 at London’s Lafayette, before they head to Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, and Manchester, before wrapping in Cambridge on November 26.
David said: “My earliest musical memories were of songs. I think song is the finest of all art forms. As a songwriter I see them conceived, developed and delivered into the world. From that point on they stop being mine. They become part of the fabric of a film, a show or someone else’s record. Principally, though, they belong to the audience.
This tour is a way of me revisiting the early years of these songs, reclaiming them for an evening, sharing the stories behind them and doing my best, as their author, to give some insight as to how and why they came into existence and, most unusually, I’ll be singing them in my own voice – the first voice anyone hears when I deliver a new song, but a voice that the public never do get to hear.”
Lucy Noble, Artistic Director at AEG Presents, added: “David Arnold has always been well known to us as a world-class composer, however with this intimate tour we’ll see the incredible artist and performer that he is as well. Audiences are in for a huge treat to hear him sing the songs that he has composed and that mean so much to him.”
Tickets are on sale now from aegpresents.co.uk.

‘David Arnold – The Songs: Live’ tour dates:
19 November, London Lafayette
20 November, Newcastle The Cluny
22 November, Glasgow Òran Mór
23 November, Birmingham Hare Hounds
24 November, Manchester Band on the Wall
26 November, Cambridge Junction 2

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OHMYGOSSIP — The Beatles “loved the idea” that Russians secretly listened to their “forbidden” group.
In the Soviet Union, the West was the enemy, and they did everything they could to try and stop Western culture from seeping in, including the legendary group and other artists’ music being banned from being imported or played from the 1960s until the 1980s.
Speaking on the ‘McCartney: A Life In Lyrics’ podcast episode about ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’, the 81-year-old music idol said: “Everyone in Russia goes back to the Beatles period and remembers having to smuggle records or it was all very you know, little rooms where you could play and you didn’t want people to know. You didn’t want the authorities to know that you were listening to this forbidden group, which really we loved the idea of that that we were getting smuggled along with Levi’s jeans. This was like true cultural arrival.”
Fast forward to 2003, and Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was invited to perform at the famous Red Square in Moscow.
He performed ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’, which was about feeling relieved to be home after visiting the Soviet Union, and a parody of Chuck Berry’s ‘Back in the U.S.A.’, to the masses.
And he even got to meet Vladimir Putin when he was serving for the first time as Russia’s President.
In a televised news interview, McCartney famously asked Putin if he had listened to The Beatles, and he all but suggested he is a fan and claimed Russians would still listen to them despite the “disapproval” from officials.
McCartney asked: “When you were growing up, did you listen to the Beatles?”
Putin responded: “The music was very popular like a breath of fresh air, a window into the outside world.”
When asked if their music was not allowed to be played in the Soviet Union, Putin said: “It wasn’t banned, but people weren’t allowed to play it in the Red Square as recently as the 1980s. The Beatles had been widely listened to in the Soviet Union despite officials’ disapproval.”
The Beatles have often been credited for a social revolution, which led to the end of communism in Russia.
The podcast episode was recorded before Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which is ongoing, but McCartney noted how this “suppression” of Western influence “still goes on” today.
When the host, poet Paul Muldoon, suggested: “Art is dangerous.”
McCartney replied: “To some people. We always thought that we were on the right side, that if we were dangerous, we were dangerous to the Russian authorities, and to us that said they’re not that good. That was how we felt, and I think it was true to a large extent that they were trying to suppress this Western influence and it goes on, you know, I know there was a period really when you thought oh, it’s all clearing, but it’s actually the suppression is back big time, you know, with sort of many countries now and it’s sort of been given a free pass and everyone’s kind of stimied and sort of saying no, please don’t do that. But I mean, God knows what the politics and the realities are behind it at any rate. So for me, it’s kind of nice to just escape into a song like this.”
Stream the episodes ‘Back In the U.S.S.R.’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby’ on all major podcast providers.

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OHMYGOSSIP — SZA was forced to postpone her Toronto gig on Wednesday (04.10.23) after falling sick and losing her voice.
The ‘Snooze’ singer didn’t state what she had come down with, however, she revealed she had been put on steroids and that her “voice is shot”.
Despite her best efforts to play the show at the Canadian city’s Scotiabank Arena, she had to pull out.
The Grammy-winning star announced on Instagram after her X account wouldn’t let her log back in: “I wanted to let you know got sick after jersey and I’m here in Toronto taking a z pack n hella steroids . My body is semi able but my voice is shot I’m trying my best to make it tonight !!! I really need your support I don’t wanna cancel (sic)”
SZA plans to reschedule the show at a later date.
A statement from the venue later confirmed: “The SZA performance scheduled for October 4 at Scotiabank Arena is postponed due to illness. Fans are encouraged to hold onto their tickets for the rescheduled date to be announced shortly. All tickets will be honored. Thank you.”
The ‘Kill Bill’ hitmaker is next due on stage on October 6 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
It’s not the first time SZA has struggled with voice issues.
SZA previously “thanked” her team of doctors and vocal technicians for working with her “daily” to get her voice back in shape after she injured her vocal cords in 2018.
The ‘Love Galore’ hitmaker wrote on Twitter at the time “Firstly I wanna thank everyone for sending me loving kindness and extending your energy my direction .Thank u for your prayers, I feel them and deeply appreciate you I love you … Thank u to the incredible team of Doctors and vocal technicians that have taken time to see me over the last few weeks in every city. I’m blessed to say my voice is not permanently damaged and i’ve been working daily to get back. Slowly but surely. (sic)”
Revealing her concerns for her vocals, SZA had written in a series of since-deleted tweets: “Tonight was the test. That settles that. I jus[t] wanna be left alone my priorities are f****d up. They been f****d up. I need space goodbye. My voice is permanently injured . (sic).”
SZA’s vocal battle had been going on for most of the year as she claimed back in the April that she’d lost her voice after performing at Coachella.
A month earlier, she also claimed that she was making the “best album” of her career this year because it’ll be the last one she ever does due to her vocal difficulties.
She said: “I’m still miserable. My world got so much smaller so fast. I have so much to write about. I feel like I’m in a cage. I’m making the best album of my life for this next album and I know that… because it’s going to be my last album.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kylie Minogue dazzled fans as she treated them to a free concert at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Wednesday night (27.09.23).
The pop idol treated a lucky 2,000 fans to a set comprising songs from her new album ‘Tension’ and old classics at the intimate venue – which she hadn’t played in 25 years.
The former ‘Neighbours’ star grew emotional after performing the album’s title track in front of those who she made it with.
Welling up, she admitted: “Singing a new song and the people you made it with here tonight…it can get emotional.”
As expected, the crowd went wild for viral hit ‘Padam Padam’.
Fans also got to hear timeless classics ‘Spinning Around’, ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’, ‘Wow’, and ‘Breathe’.
The latter of which Kylie, 55, performed as a nod to her last performance at the West London venue, as it was released the same year.
Kylie also invited some of her famous pals down to gig, including Graham Norton, Rylan Clark, Alison Hammond, Ashley Roberts, Louise Redknapp, Kimberley Walsh, and Michelle Visage.
Five of the audience members were also lucky enough to meet the ‘Love At First Sight’ hitmaker in the flesh.
More than 100,000 O2 and Virgin Media customers tried to bag tickets via the Priority app.
Gareth Griffiths, Director, Partnerships and Sponsorship at Virgin Media O2, said: “Wow, what a show! Priority from O2 gives our customers exclusive and intimate access to the world’s finest music talent at the UK’s most iconic venues. Kylie’s performance at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire was absolutely incredible, an artist right at the top of her game. We can’t wait to bring our customers even more unmissable gigs through Priority.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sum 41 haben ihren neuen Song ‘Landmines’ herausgebracht, der nur wenige Tage nach den Neuigkeiten über Frontmann Deryck Whibleys Lungenentzündung erschien.
Der 43-jährige Rocker wurde am 15. September in die Notaufnahme eingeliefert, nachdem sich sein Gesundheitszustand verschlechterte, neun Jahre nachdem er beinahe gestorben wäre, weil sein Alkoholkonsum außer Kontrolle geriet.

Nachdem Whibley wegen einer Lungenentzündung behandelt wurde, ist er jetzt wieder zu Hause und hofft, sich rechtzeitig für die beiden kommenden Konzerte der ‘In Too Deep’-Hitmacher beim ‘When We Were Young Festival’ in Las Vegas am 21. und 22. Oktober erholen zu können. Zudem wird die Musikgruppe am 20. Oktober vor den Shows des Sin City Festivals einen Auftritt im Brooklyn Bowl haben. Und die Band hat vor ihren Shows ihren neuen ‘Landmines’-Song für die Fans gespielt. Über den Old-School-Track erzählte Deryck: „Als ich ‘Landmines’ geschrieben habe, habe ich nicht die Absicht gehabt, einen Old-School-Pop-Punk-Song zu schreiben. Er kam einfach sehr schnell heraus und ich wusste sofort, dass sich dieser Song für mich wie etwas Besonderes anfühlte.“ Die Ehefrau des Musikers, Ariana, nutzte Instagram einen Tag nach seiner Einlieferung ins Krankenhaus, um die Fans über seine Entlassung zu informieren. Sie beruhigte die Fans und schrieb: „Ich freue mich sehr, dieses Update weitergeben zu können. Deryck ist entlassen worden, nachdem er so gut auf seine Behandlungen angesprochen hatte. Er wird jetzt von seiner Mutter, einer ausgebildeten Krankenschwester, und von mir betreut. Der Druck und die Belastung auf Herz und Lunge haben sich verbessert und er kann wieder schmerzfreier atmen.“

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rina Sawayama was groomed by her school teacher aged 17.
The 33-year-old British-Japanese pop star has spoken for the first time about having to undergo sex and relationship therapy after she was taken advantage of as a teenager.
Speaking on BBC Three and the BBC World Service’s ‘In Conversation’ programme, she began: “This is the first time I’m talking about this, but essentially, through doing sex therapy – sex and relationship therapy – I realised that really something that I thought was a relationship that I had, when I was 17, was actually I was groomed. Then why that realisation happened in my 30s was because I was finally his age.”
Rina penned the song ‘Your Age’ on her 2022 LP ‘Hold The Girl’ about becoming the same age as her groomer and how it was only then that she realised just how wrong it was.
The singer was “s***-shamed” and had anxiety attacks and recalled how it “completely broke my whole world apart”, but through “very intense” therapy sessions, she was able to “come to terms” with it.
She shared: “I remember distinctly how uncomfortable that made me, but I didn’t put the two and two together. And it was through this very intense form of therapy, which I feel so lucky to be able to have access to, that I was able to come to terms with that, and it completely broke my whole world apart.
“It came to light that, that was what was happening in my school, basically, it was a school teacher. I was so badly s***-shamed, that I developed so much shame around my sexuality, and lost completely my sense of self, I detached from my skin like inside, I don’t know how to describe it. But I just felt so afraid of things. And I’d have anxiety attacks.”
By writing the song, Rina hoped her fans, particularly the “women or femmes”, could feel heard.
She continued: “Seventeen to me is a child, you’re in school, you have no autonomy most of the time, and especially if you’re in a school setting, if a school teacher is coming on to you, that’s an abuse of power. I didn’t realise that until I was his age.
“Writing that album was one of the hardest things, but also when I finished it, it was one of the most incredible experiences. And now it makes me so happy when I see especially like women or femmes in the audience connecting to it because I haven’t talked about this in specifics. I’ve just said it’s about a period in my life when I was younger, but I know the truth and when I look out to the audience, and I see femmes or women connecting to it, I’m like maybe you know what I’m talking about, maybe you’re feeling it right now.”
Now that the ‘Dynasty’ singer has dealt with the trauma through her music, she is aiming to feel comfortable enough to write positively about “love or sex” on her next record.
She added: “I don’t know what I’m gonna write about yet. But I would love a day where I can just write a song that’s just about love or sex, I’m getting there.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Madness have announced their first album in seven years, ‘Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’est La Vie’.
The Ska legends have shared the new song ‘C’est La Vie’, which just so happens to be about wanting to hide away from the “madness” of the world.
Composer and keyboard-wrangler Mike ‘Barso’ Barson said it’s “about these crazy times we’re living in, and how I just want to stay on my boat and not be a part of all this madness. But of course, I’m a member of a group called Madness. Perhaps we should have called ourselves ‘Sanity’…”
The new collection was recorded in an industrial unit in Cricklewood, London, after a “disparate couple of years which saw the band at their most polarised and fragmented.”
BAFTA-winning superfan, Martin Freeman, 52, plays a central role in telling the story of the record as he recorded the prologue running throughout.
The ‘Hobbit’ star became friends with Suggs and co after standing in a meet and greet queue for the ‘It Must Be Love’ band and being fast-tracked to meet them by Madness’ manager.
The record also marks the first time the band have self-produced a record with assistance from engineer and mixer Matt Galsbey.
Madness said of the LP: “Well, well, well, here we are… Our thirteenth album (lucky for some) Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’Est La Vie is ready for your ears. For us, recording it was the perfect antidote to the chaos of the past few years – we were all there, properly in the zone. It was just us, in an industrial unit in Cricklewood, playing together. We loved it!”
The ‘Baggy Trousers’ band’s last record was 2016’s ‘Can’t Touch Us Now’, however, they released the soundtrack LP ‘The Get Up!’ last year.
‘Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’est La Vie’ is released on November 17, the band will also embark on the ‘C’est La Vie’ 2023 UK tour the same month.
The album is available on double vinyl and CD with a limited crystal clear vinyl sold through HMV and indie stores.
Head to www.madness.co.uk for the full tour dates.

‘Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’est La Vie’ track-listing:

1. Theatre Of The Absurd
2. If I Go Mad
3. Baby Burglar
4. C’est La Vie
5. What On Earth Is It (You Take Me For?)
6. Hour Of Need
7. Round We Go
8. Lockdown And Frack Off
9. Beginners 101
10. Is There Anybody Out There?
11. The Law According to Dr. Kippah
12. Run For Your Life
13. Set Me Free (Let Me Be)
14. In My Street

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