In an Instagram post with o2uk, Kylie Minogue announces that there is a chance to win “two free tickets to this intimate event” in a video. There are 700 pairs of tickets available to win if you are a Virgin Media Broadband or O2 customer.

Commenting on the exclusive gig, Kylie said “I’m thrilled to be returning to London to play such an intimate venue. It’s going to be a really special evening playing some favourites from throughout my career and of course from my new album out that week. I can’t wait to see some of you there!”

Check out Kylie’s announcement on Instagram below:

On September 22, Kylie will be releasing her sixteenth studio album Tension. The upcoming album was announced in May and will be her most recent album since her 2020 disco album Disco. The singer has already released two singles from Tension. The lead single of the album “Padam Padam” was released on May 18 and “Tension” was released on August 31.

A total of eleven songs are to be included in the Tension standard edition of the album with songs titled “Hold On to Now”, “You Still Get Me High”, and “10 Out of 10” featuring Dutch DJ and electronic music producer Olivier Heldens.

Watch the official music video for Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam” on YouTube below:

The 55-year-old pop sensation is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time with over 80 million records sold worldwide. She released her debut studio album Kylie in 1988 which peaked at number one in the United Kingdom and became the fifth best-selling album of the decade.

Since then, the musician has released fifteen albums and has received a variety of accolades including a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards, seventeen ARIA Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and six MO Awards.

In addition to her music career, Kylie has been heavily involved in philanthropy. She contributed to a recording of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” in order to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia. She is also a sponsor and ambassador for breast cancer cause since her diagnosis in 2005.

To enter the ballot for a chance to win tickets to see Kylie Minogue at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, enter on the website here.

The ballot is live and will end on Thursday 14 September 2023.

Kylie Minogue UK Gig Date:

22/09/2023 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush – London

The song, titled “Eurovusion (Open Up)” can be heard below:

New Zealand’s Eurovision bid is being backed by a Kiwi brewery, Yeastie Boys. The brewery owners have started a petition to let New Zealand join the Eurovision contest, alongside their Australian neighbours who are already included.

Nearly 50k views on our song to launch Aotearoa New Zealand’s bid for an invitation to @Eurovision. https://t.co/gL3JDv9Tox

Surely it’s time @bbceurovision gave it some airtime. If this was in the competition it would be a finalist, for sure.

— Yeastie Boys (@yeastieboys) May 8, 2023

Stu McKinlay, founder of Yeastie Boys, said, “We’ve become big Eurovision fans since arriving here in the UK but we really miss having our own country to cringe at while simultaneously supporting unwaveringly.”

Discussing Australia being included but not his native New Zealand, McKinlay continued, “I was the youngest of five kids and whenever my older siblings went to gigs, I was too young to join them. Australia being in Eurovision, when New Zealand hasn’t been invited, gives me the same vibes and I don’t like it.”

He added, “New Zealanders grow up with a sense of social justice being very important and Australia being invited to Eurovision without New Zealand is like inviting someone to your wedding but not giving them a plus one! Everyone loves New Zealand and finds us cute and non-threatening and that makes us a sure thing for doing well in the public vote. I mean who really likes Australia?”

On the petition page, McKinlay writes, “New Zealand is a country with a rich musical heritage that could bring a lot to the Eurovision party. Just ask Lorde, Crowded House or Dane Rumble.We have taken it upon ourselves to highlight this injustice and right this wrong by inviting fellow New Zealand pals Two Hearts to launch the first ever official unofficial Eurovision entry.”

Ultimately, New Zealand asks, “Why the hell are Australia in it? Can New Zealand come and play too?”

The UK is set to host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest next week, honouring Ukraine who won last year. The 2023 finals will take place on 9th May and 11th May, with the grand finals on 13th May.

The event will be hosted in Liverpool, with Liverpool-based band Frankie Goes to Hollywood reuniting to open this year’s contest.

Eurovision co-host Alisha Dixon has called this year’s event “so much more than a competition” as the nations gather to honour Ukraine. Dixon said the event is “very important. We feel that sense of responsibility to do it with joy, love.”

Mae Muller is the official UK entrant for 2023, releasing “I Wrote a Song” in hopes of scoring as highly as last year’s UK contestant, Sam Ryder. Listen to Muller’s song here:

Probably consumed by the mountain of work ahead of them, they hiccuped when posting the dates on their website by dating the gigs in 2022 instead of 2023. So, bare that in mind if checking for their assigned days on their page.

Picking up again on the 24th of March, the band will be flying off to carry out another 22 gigs in Australian, New Zealand and US soil. A lot of Canadians weren’t too happy with the new dates. They were expecting to be granted a visit from the British rock twisters and have expressed their dismay via Black Midi’s social media.

From the 24th to the 26th March the band will be visiting Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand, of which one of them is already sold out. Following after this, from the 28th March to the 2nd April they will be playing in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth in Australia, already partly sold out.

Trailing after, they will be making their way to the US on the 8th of June to play in 15 different American cities. Starting off in Philadelphia and finishing off in Boston on the 8th of July, 2023. Once finished in the US they will round up the tour by an added three gigs in the UK playing at Latitude Festival on the 23rd July, We Out Here Festival on the 11th August, All Points East on the 25th August and a, fairly random, gig in Spain, Torremolinos on the 24th August.

The band’s last LP release was their third studio album Hellfire in 2022. Ever since their debut album Schlagenheim in 2019, the band have not been short of representing their untiring hell. Through stories and hellbound characters they manage to siv their way around humanity’s nastiest aspects in existence. Playing around with math rock delusions and experimental post-rock madness the band dedicated their songwriting to be almost unplayable live.

Their latest release, however, was Live Fire. An only physically distributed album of their live performance in Primavera Sound, Porto. They interpret Hellfire through a more loosened and cheeky manner compared to the studio recordings. The texture given to the workpiece if a unique feel.

Tickets for all their coming live gigs went live on Friday, 3rd of March.

Click here for tickets.

UK Tour Dates:

23/07/2023 – Latitude Festival – Suffolk
11/08 – We Out Here Festival – Dorset
25/08 – All Points East – London

She wrote in her message “I don’t think any of us have ever known a year like this one. Life became incredibly frightening in the pandemic but just as we think it might be over soon, it seems to keep going. It’s a bombardment – the horrific war in Ukraine, the famines, the droughts, the floods… and we lost our Queen. Many of my friends were surprised at how upset they were at her death especially as we aren’t royalists, but I think her passing became a focus of grief, for unexpressed loss that so many people felt during the pandemic.” 

Furthermore in her message, she writes, “I wonder where on earth we’ll all be at the end next year, I hope the war will end. I hope that the nurses will be in a position where they are appreciated – they should be cherished. Let’s all hope that next year will be better than this one.”

One of her best highlights of the year which she described as a “crazy, roller coaster” was the success of her famous 1985 song ‘Running Up That Hill as it topped the charts in both the UK and Australia. Thanks to the iconic scene in Stranger Things featuring Max’s Song as she faces Vecna.

She owes the success of RUTH to her fans in the younger generation, especially the new fans who thought she was a new artist for reviving the song’s popularity and getting all the attention and recognition it deserves.

Kate Bush is currently trending on Twitter as her wonderful message has users blooming with love and support for Kate. One Twitter user said, “Kate Bush has posted a beautiful Christmas message on her website. Accompanied by a picture of a robin, she reflects on Ukraine, the death of the Queen, her hope that nurses are finally cherished (yes, Kate!) and the huge success of Running Up That Hill. Merry Christmas, Kate!”

Another Twitter user said, “Kate Bush gave the best Christmas message and I love her. Merry Christmas Kate!! And we should appreciate the nurses working to fight the ongoing pandemic like she said. Plus Kate is not a royalist confirmed!”

In a lengthy statement released yesterday by the festival organisers, the band agreed that ‘their inclusion began to impact negatively on the other artists performing’ and ‘that it would be best if they refrained from performing’ at the festival in November. Making the decision ‘was not taken lightly’, with the event’s ‘top priority… the safety and well-being of both its artists and attendees’.

In their statement released yesterday, Sticky Fingers called out ‘the perpetrated negativity from a small pocket of the music industry’, which it claimed ‘needs to be quarantined so it doesn’t affect other innocent parties’.

Following the cancellation, This That are offering full refunds for fans. This form must be filled in before 5pm on Thursday 5th July.

Sticky Fingers have been embroiled in a number of controversies in the past 2 years. Indigenous Australian artist Thelma Plum alleged that band’s frontman, Dylan Frost, threatened and intimidated her at a Sydney pub back in December 2016. During the incident, in which Plum had ‘honestly never felt so unsafe in [her] life’, Frost swore and spat at the singer and chased after her Uber. In another incident in July that year, Frost was accused of racial abuse against a local indigenous rock band, Dispossessed, at a Sydney venue. The band’s lead guitarist, Birrugan Dunn-Velasco, complained in a Facebook post that he is ‘not a monkey to play on command’ and that the group ‘walked off stage when the lead singer of Sticky Fingers among many others began grossly shirt fronting us…’

This That’s decision to book the band, best known for their singles ‘Australia Street‘ and ‘How To Fly‘, was met with outcry. After the June 26 announcement, critics took to social media. Another performer at the festival, dance musician Godlands, said she found it ‘extremely difficult to be on the same bill’ as a ‘woman and [an] artist’. Led by LGBT activist Sally Rugg and artists like Miss Blands and Camp Cope, the backlash became more organised, with some calling for boycotts.

Meanwhile, the festival is set to go ahead on 3rd November, with appearances from artists like Amy Shark, Boo Seeka, Thandi Phoenix and The Rubens.

The band who are originally from the Blue Mountains, Sydney, now call London their home. The new album follows 2010’s Bliss Release, which received critical acclaim in the UK and down under, where they won the Australian Music Prize for their debut album. The Sydney natives are heading home this August and September to play a huge sold out 14-date headline tour across the nation.

Following the band’s own 10-date headline tour of the UK and Europe this autumn, they are set to support US indie rockers, Local Natives, on their UK Tour this October. The band’s who share the same label, Infectious Music, are set to play 13-dates across the UK starting at The Junction, Cambridge on October 15th.

Latest single Dojo Rising was released on July 12 to a string of positive reviews with Beat Magazine Australia hailing “the band are intent on moving past their debut LP”. Cloud Control posted to fans on Facebook yesterday “Holding a new album in your hands is still as good the second time round.”

Dream Cave is out on September 16th on Infectious Music.

Cloud Control – UK & European Tour:

23 Sept XOYO, London
24 Sept Deaf Institute, Manchester
25 Sept King Tut’s, Glasgow
26 Sept Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
27 Sept Start the Bus, Bristol
30 Sept Fleche D’Or, Paris
01 Oct Botanique Rotonde, Brussels
02 Oct Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
04 Oct Magnet, Berlin
05 Oct Molotow, Hamburg