OHMYGOSSIP — Professor Green has been confirmed to perform at the MOBO awards.
The 32-year-old rapper – whose real name is Stephen Manderson – will be taking to the stage on Friday (04.11.16) alongside Craig David, Tinie Tempah, Chase & Status and Best Female Act nominees Lady Leshurr and Laura Mvula.
The annual event – which celebrates Music of Black Origin – will be celebrating its 21st anniversary with a thrilling line up at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.
WSTRN, Fekky, Section Boyz and Izzy Bizzu are also to perform.
MC Fekky said: “it’s gonna be a mad ting! Make sure you lock in!”
Clean Bandit will also rock the awards’ stage for the time as they team up with Best Newcomer nominee Anne-Marie for an energetic set.
Although most of them haven’t graced the MOBO stage before, the ‘When The Bassline Drops’ hitmaker – who is nominated for Best Male and Best Song – is thrilled to be making a return to the awards ceremony after first wowing the show in 2000.
He said: “I first performed at the MOBO Awards 16 years ago and walked away with three awards that night. I’m back with new music and it’s only right that I celebrate this by joining MOBO as they celebrate their 21st birthday.”
Meanwhile, Laura Mvula – who last performed at the 2013 MOBOs – will be hoping her performance will be a celebration of a successful night as she’s up for an impressive four awards.
She said: “I’m so thrilled to be back in Glasgow performing on the MOBO Awards stage. The MOBOs are one of the few music events that have really championed and supported urban music from Gospel to Grime, so it’s an honour to be taking part once again.”
Like Craig, Tinie is up for Best Male and Best Song for ‘Girls Like’, and will be hoping to add to the two awards he picked up in 2010.
Laura and Kano lead the nominations with four each, with Skepta narrowly behind with three nods.
The MOBO awards will be aired live tonight (04.11.16) on ITV2 at 8pm.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lars Ulrich thinks Metallica are getting too old to play ‘Master of Puppets’.
The 52-year-old drummer has warned that the metal band’s days of performing the title track from their 1986 album may be numbered.
He told Billboard: “Whether we’ll be able to play ‘Master of Puppets’ in our 70s, I just don’t know. With Metallica, there’s a physicality and a weight that has to be part of it. You can play it less heavy, slower – or you can realise that the music deserves that physical approach, and if the physical delivery isn’t there, then maybe it’s better not to do it.
“You’re trying to prevent something from going off the rails. We’re lowering the percentages of [body parts] breaking mid-show.”
The band – whose other members include frontman James Hetfield, 53, guitarist Kirk Hammett, 53, and 52-year-old bassist Robert Trujillo – formed in 1981 and are set to release their 10th studio album.
And although they’re getting older, Lars says he has been inspired by The Rolling Stones, especially their 75-year-old drummer Charlie Watts.
He added: “The only O.G. drummer… the only road map is Charlie Watts. I can see [playing live] in my 70s, mentally, but I just don’t know about the physicality. That remains the great question mark.”
Lars recently revealed how he found it easier to be part of a “collective” when he was younger as he and his bandmates shared the same values.
He explained: “It’s harder to be part of a collective when you’re older.
“When you’re 22, you all wear the same clothes, drink the same beer, do the same crazy things.
“Then, all of a sudden, you’re in your 30s and 40s and everything has changed.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Mark Ronson “never” tried to make Lady Gaga’s LP ‘Joanne’ an “honest album”.
The 41-year-old musician, who helped produce the 30-year-old singer’s latest compilation, has admitted the pair of them had no idea what they wanted the album to be like and didn’t intend for it to be “contrived”, but on the second day it started to transform into heartfelt music, which Mark “really loves”.
Speaking to Billboard Online about his collaboration with the blonde beauty, he said: “‘[I] didn’t really know what she wanted to do.
“I was like, ‘F**k, I really love this.’ So we started following that direction – it was never contrived like, ‘We’re going to make this honest album.’ That’s what kept coming out.
“When Bloodpop came in, it got a lot better. He took what we were doing, which was maybe a little, not retro, but very live-music-recorded, and started to chop the s**t out of it.”
However the DJ – who received the Producer of the Year Grammy award in 2008 for Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back to Black’ – has admitted he tries not to have a “specific sound” but is regularly approached by artists who want him to produce a “‘Uptown Funk part two'” or a track similar to his previous successful hits, which he isn’t into.
He explained: “I try not to have a specific sound because A) you can date yourself, and B) every artist needs something different, so you don’t ever know what holes you’re going to have to fill.
“Some people want something that you might have done ten years ago that you’re not really into anymore. You always have to suss out – are they just asking you for ‘Uptown Funk part two?’ Or coming for my unique brand of retro authenticity for whatever the f**k you want to call it?
“Trying to chase that success is also dangerous.”
And Ronson has revealed he keeps his upcoming projects a secret after being fired in the middle of creating a track, and now doesn’t want to be left with “egg on your face”.
He said: “I don’t want bad karma. I never say [what I’m working on] until I’m far down the line, because I’ve been fired once or twice in the middle and then you have egg on your face.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ album is a tribute to David Bowie.
The ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ hitmaker – whose real name is Abel Tesfaye – has revealed that his number one collaboration with Daft Punk and his forthcoming record of the same name is partly a salute to the late music legend – who sadly passed away at the age of 69 in January, following a secret battle with cancer – and his 1972 hit ‘Starman’.
He said: “I just love Bowie, I think he’s the ultimate inventor.”
The Wall Street Journal has also reported that the R&B star was due to record with the late Prince before the musical legend passed away in April, of an accidental fentanyl overdose.
The ‘Often’ hitmaker – who is currently dating model Bella Hadid – also spoke of his latest studio experience with ‘Get Lucky’ hitmakers Daft Punk and how their recording space is very “technical” and like a spaceship.
He shared: “Their studio is like a spaceship, there’s a lot of gear, but the way they make music, the way they explain it, is very cinematic.
“It’s like they’re reading a page out of a novel – ‘We want to make sure that at the end, it feels like the sun’s coming up, and maybe there’s a car chase.’ They can get technical, but it was interesting how they visualise making music.”
Meanwhile, the 26-year-old singer has a busy schedule ahead, with a new single, an album release and his first fashion range soon to launch.
The Weeknd’s eagerly-anticipated follow-up to 2015’s ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’ is slated for release on November 25, and features new single ‘False Alarm’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — James Arthur was snubbed by Rita Ora for an album track.
The 28-year-old singer has revealed that the ‘Body On Me’ hitmaker- who he had a brief fling with in 2013 – ignored all his calls for a possible duet for his comeback album ‘Back From The Edge’ and so did ‘Still Falling For You’ songstress Ellie Goulding.
He shared: “It was tough to get people involved in this one because I don’t think anyone expected me to come back.
“I was calling Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora, all these guys saying, ‘Do you want to sing this line?’ I got nothing.”
James – who won’The X Factor’ in 2012 under the watchful eye of Nicole Scherzinger – made a triumph return to the spotlight after two years with his latest single ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’ and admits his successful comeback has brought familiar faces out of the woodwork, who insist they never doubted him, although he hadn’t heard from them when he was on a break.
He told The Sun newspaper: “They have all come crawling back saying, ‘Well done, we always believed in you’, I’m like so when I was calling trying to get a feature …
“At least people are humble and have come back and said congratulations.
“I used to speak to Ellie a bit when I first came on the scene. She expressed she was a fan. I didn’t hear from her for a while, so to have her come back and say that is amazing. She is super unique and that’s inspiring to me.”
James has just announced a 14-date UK tour, which kicks off in March 2017 in support of his number one comeback album.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lana Del Rey could be dropping a new song soon.
The ‘Born to Die’ hitmaker has got fans speculating that she is about to release a new single after a song called ‘Wild Side’ was reportedly registered under the singer’s real name, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant.
According to NME, the track has been co-written by Greg Banks.
The 31-year-old singer teased fans that she was working on a follow-up to 2015’s ‘Honeymoon’ earlier this year, when she posted a photo of herself working in a studio on social media.
Lana previously revealed she has gradually been putting ideas together for her fifth album for some time and she gave an update in December 2015.
At the time, she said: “I do have early thoughts about what I’d like to do with [the album].
“My label, Interscope, is pretty flexible and open to my records coming out at any time, so I don’t have that pressure. I’m just happy to be able to keep on making music I can stand behind. That’s enough for me.”
Last year Lana got to tour with Grunge rocker Courtney Love for her concert series, ‘The Endless Summer Tour’, and she was inspired by her “entrancing” performance.
She said: “Touring with Courtney was great, we have some things in common that might not be visible from the outside.
“I think the most important thing I learned was that some people just have it when it comes to performing. She’s totally entrancing, a born performer.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Warpaint’s latest album was inspired by the death of David Bowie.
The indie-rock band – comprised of Emily Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg Stella Mozgawa – went straight into the studio the day after the late ‘Starman’ hitmaker died from cancer (January 10) and the music legend “set the tone” for their record ‘Heads Up’.
Singer Emily told Julie Adenuga on her Beats 1 radio show: “David Bowie had died the day before, and we went into the studio and listened to David Bowie and built our studio out of our practice space.
“We took our practice space and started making it something to record in. It was a great way to enter the studio because it was such a celebration of somebody who was so prolific and such an ever-changing artist. I think that set the tone for what became ‘Heads Up’.”
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles-based rock outfit recently admitted their democratic approach to making music caused tension in the band and the lack of a clear frontwoman drew them together.
Bassist Jenny previously explained: “When we first started playing, that was what we were drawn to, there wasn’t any one person dictating.
“It’s definitely a slow process but it made our sound more original.”
However, the quartet admit it can be a struggle having their opinions heard.
Theresa, 36, added: “Warpaint does have to be all of us. Sometimes you have to fight to be heard – but it’s worth the fight because you’re going to spend the next year-and-a-half playing these songs.
“I want to feel like I’m 100 per cent behind what I’m doing; I didn’t sign up to be in someone else’s band.”
Equality within the band has led to tensions in the past, but the ‘Love is to Die’ hitmakers have come to terms with such frictions.
Jenny said: “Eventually, you get tired of fighting. You realise not everybody’s going to love everything. Those two people really love it, I love them, lets validate them. Unless someone really doesn’t like it …”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Robbie Williams fears he doesn’t “deserve” the BRITs Icon Award.
The ‘Party Like a Russian’ singer – whose 17 past BRIT wins make him the most awarded artist in the history of the ceremony – will pick up the special statuette in recognition of his incredible career at a special event later this month, but he’s concerned his “low self-esteem issues” will prevent him from enjoying the occasion.
He said: “It is an honour but what happens is like a mirror going to me, ‘You don’t deserve this’. I will try my best to enjoy the evening but you know I’m a cracked person with low self-esteem issues.”
Meanwhile, the 42-year-old pop star – who has children Teddy, four, and Charlton, two, with wife Ayda Field – admitted his spouse isn’t impressed with all the tracks on his latest album ‘Heavy Entertainment Show’.
Speaking on ‘MTV Asks Robbie Williams’, he said: “I was in the bath with my wife and we were playing the album and the first five songs were like ‘yep, yep’. Then I played one that was written about her . . . and at the end she went, ‘meh, not that one’.” Robbie is only the third recipient of the Icon Award, following in the footsteps of Sir Elton John and the late David Bowie.
The accolade is presented to artists whose work has set them apart as having made a “lasting impact” on the nation’s culture.
And the ‘Angels’ hitmaker previously admitted he is “humbled” to have been honoured with the prize.
He said: “The BRIT Awards are very special to me and I’m humbled to be receiving the 18th of my career.”
Robbie will receive the Icon Award at a special concert in London on November 8, while the main BRIT Awards ceremony will take place on 22 February 2017 at The O2.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Professor Green is to focus on his music career from now on.
The ‘Read All About It’ rapper was flung into the spotlight with his failed marriage to former ‘Made in Chelsea’ star Millie Mackintosh, which ended eight months ago, and now he has vowed to put it all behind him and put all of his energy into new music as he admits he got too caught up in fame.
He said: “I took my eye off the ball, I don’t know where the two years went.
“I’ll admit it got away from me. Unfortunately the focus shifted and I became more of this celebrity to people and the focus shifted and I became more of this celebrity to people and the focus shifted on to my personal life instead.
“And some of my fans who don’t buy into that stuff have just been waiting for me to return.”
The 32-year-old rapper – whose real name is Stephen Manderson – has promised not to “neglect” his fans by getting caught up in the celebrity world and plans on dropping new music regularly to show them he is serious.
He told the Daily Star newspaper: “I want to make sure it doesn’t happen again, people need to understand I don’t enjoy leaving a restaurant after two bottles of red wine and having a camera shoved in my face.
“I want to take that camera and shove it up the bloke’s arse, but I don’t.
“I will make sure that I never neglect it again, not just for my fans but for myself.
“Me and Millie never discussed our relationship but people still bought into it and I realise now.
“I’m going to make songs, put it out, make songs, put it out, and keep them coming.”
However, Pro is to get his marriage split off his chest first by referencing it on his forthcoming album.
Asked if Millie will be unhappy with the content, he previously admitted: “I think that can be assumed. But I’m not worried about that.
“People assume they know me and they know the box I fit into but I grew up rapping a totally different way. I hope people will let me release the music and the style that I want. I’m not going to be nice just to sell records.”
Pro unveiled new single ‘One Eye On The Door’ last week, which explains the tragicomic events that occur during a relationship and the excuses and recriminations that follow.

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