Shortly after exciting fans with the news of the S Club reunion tour in February this year, former member Paul Cattermole sadly passed away at age 46 due to an underlying heart condition. After the news of Cattermole’s death, fellow bandmate and former girlfriends Hannah Spearritt dropped out of the tour, leaving the 5 remaining members to hit the road under the new name S Club.

On the opening night of the tour, S Club delighted their fans by performing their classic hits such as “Don’t Stop Moving”, “Have You Ever” and “Reach”. In addition to their set, the group took some time to pay tribute to their late bandmate.

As a montage of images of Cattermole flooded the arena screen, S Club member Bradley McIntosh informed the crowd “That’s our brother right there, man. Gone but you’ll never be forgotten. We miss you every single day”

As part of the show, the S Club members left the stage as a video of Paul Cattermole singing their song “Good Times” played. The singers then rejoined the stage to sing the end of the song before paying individual tributes.

Rachel Stevens told the crowd “Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support, all the incredible messages you’ve sent through this time, and all your support always. We love you so much.”

Tina Barrett, also paying tribute said “Thank you so much Manchester. Tonight is a celebration so let’s bring it all back for Paul.”

Band member Jon Lee added “Thank you so much, it’s very special for us this evening obviously, we dedicate this performance to Paul and to the British Heart Foundation so thank you so much for being here.”

Finally, Jo O’Meara stated “Thank you so much [for] all the messages and love and support you’ve all shown all of us and to Paul’s family. We are so grateful for every single one of you.”

Tickets for the rest of S Club’s Good Times tour are available here.

Tour dates:

14/10/2023 – Utilita Arena – Sheffield                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        16/10 – 3Arena – Dublin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18/10 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    19/10 – Utilita Arena – Newcastle                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                20/10 – First Direct Arena – Leeds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              21/10 – AO Arena – Manchester                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  23/10 – Utilita Arena – Cardiff                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      24/10 – Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  26/10 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            27/10 – The O2 – London                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              28/10 – The O2 – London                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              29/10 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          30/10 – M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool

The Ballad Of Darren, out 21st July 2023.

1. The Ballad
2. St Charles Square
3. Barbaric
4. Russian Strings
5. The Everglades (For Leonard)
6. The Narcissist
7. Goodbye Albert
8. Far Away Island
9. Avalon
10. The Heights

Pre-order now: https://t.co/NYFL2LWFDV pic.twitter.com/qYbul5MHgS

— blur (@blurofficial) May 18, 2023

The news comes with the releasing of a single from the upcoming album, “The Narcissist“, an uplifting, alternative rock track that is lyrically both bittersweet and retrospective.

Listen to “The Narcissist” below:

The album announcement follows the recent news that the Britpop heavyweights will play a series of small UK warm-up shows this month, starting tonight in Colchester, that will precede a run of European dates and, on July 8th and 9th, a couple of huge Wembley shows.

Fans of the 90s icons will undoubtedly be astonished by the arrival of a new album that will immediately follow a reunion tour, perhaps even more so than the announcement of the reunion itself back in November last year.

The Ballad Of Darren is set to be Blur’s ninth studio album and their first in eight years, following the release of The Magic Whip in 2015. The LP was recorded at Studio 13 in London and was produced by Frontman Damon Albarn’s long-term collaborating partner James Ellis Ford.

Albarn, on the retrospective nature of the record, told NME that the album has “reflection and comment[s] on where we find ourselves now“, and has described the release as an “aftershock record“. Guitarist Graham Cox added, “The older and madder we get, it becomes more essential that what we play is loaded with the right emotion and intention. Sometimes just a riff doesn’t do the job“.

Blur were formed in London in 1988, with Damon Albarn on lead vocals, Graham Cox on guitar, Alex James on bass and Dave Rowntree on drums, and the ever-present quartet will be the same come July. The group released their debut album, the shoegaze heavy Leisure, in 1991, and transitioned to a more guitar pop orientated style with their next three releases, Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994), and The Great Escape (1995), helping kickstart the Britpop movement and creating a rivalry with Oasis in the process.

Watch the music video for “Parklife” below:

The ever-evolving group then transitioned to lo-fi indie rock with their self-titled album of 1997 before moving into a more experimental, alternative rock phase with 13 (1999) and Think Tank (2003).

Watch the music video for “Song 2″ below:

You can pre-order The Ballad Of Darren now here.

See below for tour dates:

19/05/2023 – Colchester Arts Centre – Colchester
21/05 – Eastbourne Winter Gardens – Eastbourne
26/05 – The Halls – Wolverhampton
28/05 – O2 City Hall – Newcastle
01/06 – Primavera Sound – Barcelona
08/06 – Primavera Sound – Barcelona
10/06 – Primavera Porto – Porto
24/06 – Malahide Castle – Dublin
27/06 – Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam
30/06 – Roskilde Festival – Roskilde
06/07 – Beauregard Festival – Normandy
08/07 – Wembley – London
09/07 – Wembley – London

Purchase tickets here.

The seven members of the band consists of Rachel Stevens, Jo O’Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Tina Barrett, Bradley McIntosh, Paul Cattermole and Jon Lee. They have planned to begin an 11-date arena tour, in October. They posted a statement to their social media, after announcing their comeback in an interview on BBC’s The One Show.

‘’We can’t wait to be reunited with you all this October.
Sign up before 5pm GMT tomorrow to gain access to PRE-SALE TICKETS via the link in our bio. PRE-SALE opens Wednesday 15th Feb, 10am GMT. GENERAL SALE opens Friday 17th Feb, 10am GMT #SClub7Reunited ‘’

During the interview on The One Show, S Club 7 band member Rachel Stevens announced the news saying,
‘’We are very excited to say that we are going back out on tour in October. We’re just so excited to get back out there and sing our hearts out and perform. We’re celebrating 25 years which is just crazy.’’  Bradley McIntosh went on to give an insight into what fans could expect from the tour, ‘’we’re bringing the nostalgia, obviously, we’re bringing the late-nineties early-noughties. So it’s a lot of fun. It’s very positive our music, it’s very positive. And I think in todays times we need a bit of positive, we need a bit of picking up so that’s what we’re here to do.’’ 

The band teased an announcement on social media last week. On Instagram, they posted a video with the caption, ‘’Ain’t no party like an S Club Party

Announcement coming this Monday 13th February at 7.00pm GMT on BBC’s The One Show!’’

The group, who was formed by former Spice Girls manager, Simon Fuller in 1998, have had four UK number one singles, with ‘’Bring It All Back’’, ‘’Don’t Stop Movin’’, ‘’Have You Ever’’ and ‘’Never Had a Dream Come True.’’ Their album, 7, also made number one in the UK albums charts. They sold over 10 million albums worldwide and won two Brit awards in the early 2000’s. They won the Breakthrough Artist award in 2000 and Best Song in 2002 for their number one hit, ‘’Dont Stop Moving.’’

As well as their chart topping success, the band had their own tv series, Miami 7. Thirteen episodes of the show aired on CBBC from April until July, in 1999. The show also aired in America, but was renamed  S Club 7 in Miami and aired on Fox Family, now known as Freeform. The group also released their own movie, Seeing Double, in 2003. The band split up in 2003, before reuniting in 2014 for a performance on Children In Need.

The tour will kick off at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena, on October 13, and continue by travelling around arenas across the UK and Ireland.

S Club 7 Reunited Tour Dates:

13/10/2023 – M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool
14/10 – Utiilita Arena – Sheffield
16/10 – 3Arena – Dublin
18/10 – Hydro Arena – Glasgow
19/10 – Utilita Arena – Newcastle
20/10 – First Direct Arena – Leeds
21/10 – AO Arena – Manchester
23/10 – International Arena – Cardiff
24/10 – Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham
26/10 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham
28/10 – The O2 Arena – London

Click here to access tickets, which go on sale Friday 17 February at 10am.

The band first rose to fame in 2008 as runners up on the reality TV show The X Factor and consists of members Aston Merrygold, Oritse Williams, Marvin Humes and JB Gill. The group enjoyed great success on the charts and won numerous awards, and after seven years together the group announced that they would be disbanding. The announcement of the group’s reunion tour was made in 2020, the Beat Again tour was sadly postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking to HELLO! Magazine Gill discussed their future touring plans and any possible new releases, “We probably won’t tour again this year, but with the success of ‘Beat Again’ and our latest album, I’m sure we’ll be working on new material soon.” The singer then continued to describe his children’s reaction to the group’s music, “The kids love seeing their daddy up on stage so we don’t really have a choice whether we do another JLS tour or not.”

Within the statement which announced the disbanding, JLS confirmed that they would release a new compilation album and finish their final headlining arena tour before officially splitting up. The group’s ‘farewell’ record, Goodbye- The Greatest Hits, was released on 18th November 2013 via RCA Records and included the group’s best-loved songs as well as a new single. The track “Billion Lights” was released on 17th November 2013 and reached number 19 on the UK singles charts.

Rumours concerning the band’s reunion began to circulate in 2019, and an announcement was made the following year which confirmed the group’s plan to reunite. On 12th February 2020, a statement was made confirming their reconciliation and included dates for their Beat Again Tour. In 2021, JLS released their fifth studio album 2.0, the album marked the band’s return and coincided with their reunion tour. The album sired three singles, “Eternal Love” was the album’s lead single and was released on 3rd September 2021. Two further singles, “Day One” and “Postcard” were released in the same year.

Throughout their break, all band members acquired recognition in different avenues within the entertainment industry, with some members returning to their roots of competition-based TV shows as hosts and judges. Currently, Humes can be seen on the game show The Hit List, which he co-hosts with his wife Rochelle Humes.

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Tickets for the UK dates will go on sale this Thursday (March 31^st) at 9am, you can find more information here. The tour will take Roxy Music through the UK with dates in Glasgow, Manchester and London, all in support of the 50^th anniversary of their self-titled debut. As well as the tour, the band are also starting a vinyl re-issue series of all 8 studio albums in their discography. More information on when the reissues will be released will crop up in due time, until then you can take a look at the deal for Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure here; both of which will be landing on April 1^st.

While I’m sure this is pretty much what everyone expected, the elephant in the room is that there is probably not going to be a Brian Eno amongst the line-up for the tour – despite this being in support of one of the 2 albums he actually worked on. I don’t have any actual evidence for that… but come on. That being said though, the year will mark the first time that Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson have been together on stage since the ‘For Your Pleasure’ tour in 2011.

Since their formation in 1972, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Roxy Music have left an indelible mark on the worlds of music, fashion and art, merging the three with a singular and astonishing vision that brought them immediate, global success.  Today they are regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time, whose work has inspired generations of musicians. Intense, emotive, and clever, with iconic graphics, Roxy Music’s eight studio albums birthed the art-rock movement, blurring the lines between genres and infusing a new kind of glamour into rock music for the first time.

Roxy Music’s UK Tour Dates:

10/10/22 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
12/10 – AO Arena – Manchester
14/10 – O2 Arena – London

Photo credit: Brian Cooke

https://t.co/JxJvRWrgDS pic.twitter.com/SDUySCrzwZ

— traitor joe (@phoebe_bridgers) March 7, 2022

The North American run of the Reunion Tour includes a slew of dates April to August – and makes stops in Atlanta, Washington D.C., Brooklyn, Seattle. Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan Registration is open now and closes Tuesday, March 8 at 12pm EST. Verified Fan Presale begins Thursday, March 10th at 12pm local time. $1 of every headline show ticket sold will be donated to The Mariposa Fund, fiscally sponsored by The West Fund, which helps pay for undocumented people trying to obtain reproductive health services, including abortion. The UK dates however come through a little more sporadically. With a handful of festival appearances at the likes of Glastonbury, and Latitude, the headline shows have seemingly been built around them. A date at London’s Brixton Academy comes in July after Latitude, whereas the Barrowlands night comes a month earlier just preceding Glastonbury. You can look into the verified fan presale here, and check out general tour details here.

During the premiere of her latest radio show, amongst all the hype that had been generated regardless, Bridgers fans were treated to a haunting cover of Billie Eilish’s ‘when the party’s over’. Accompanied by a notably glum solo piano, and some sparse backing vocals, the cover takes Eilish’s track and does what every great cover does; maintain the original scope of the song while also adding a fundamentally unique and personal slant. The result is exactly how good as it sounds. Phoebe Bridgers taking on Billie Eilish. It’s great. Bridgers then took the performance and released it on SoundCloud for all to hear, you can check that out here.

See below the UK dates of the tour:

22/6/22 – Barrlowland – Glasgow
24/6 – Glastonbury – Somerset
26/6 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
22/7 – Latitude – Suffolk
23/7 – O2 Apollo – Manchester
26/7 – O2 Brixton Academy – London

Photo Credits: Carter Howe

Ban members Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins announced last year that they were reuniting for a tour called The Last Domino?. The band will be playing together for the first time since 2017 and are set to be joined on the tour by Nic Collins on drums, and guitarist/bassist Daryl Stuermer.

The UK run was originally set for November and December 2020 before it was pushed back to April and then again to September all because of the coronavirus pandemic and now it will be preceded by a newly announced North American run. You can see them rehearsing for the tour below.

Just before the start of the UK leg of the tour beginning tonight, Collins has ruled out any further dates from the band, saying these will be the last Genesis shows ever. In a new interview with Mojo, Collins said “This English and American tour, that will be enough for me.”

This comes off the back of the news earlier this month, where in a rare interview Phil Collins gave fans an update on his ongoing health battles and their effect on his ability to perform.

The musician has been suffering from nerve damage since a spinal injury back in 2007, where he damaged the vertebrae in his upper neck. He Discussed Genesis’ forthcoming reunion tour which will see his son Nic taking his place behind the kit – he said “I’m kind of physically challenged a bit which is very frustrating because I’d love to be playing up there with my son.”

After the tour begins in Birmingham tonight, the band will head around the UK before the leg wraps up with three dates at The O2 in London in mid-October. A North American run will then begin from mid-November, taking the band through until a week before Christmas.

You can see Genesis’ full list of upcoming UK dates below.

Genesis The Last Domino? UK Tour Dates:

09/20/22 Utilita Arena – Birmingham
09/21 Utilita Arena – Birmingham
09/22 Utilita Arena – Birmingham
09/24 Manchester Arena – Manchester
09/25 Manchester, Manchester Arena – Manchester
09/27 First Direct Arena – Leeds
09/28 First Direct Arena – Leeds
09/30 Utilita Arena – Newcastle
10/01 Utilita Arena – Newcastle
10/03 M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool
10/04 M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool
10/07 SSE Hydro Arena – Glasgow
10/08 SSE Hydro Arena – Glasgow
10/11 O2 Arena – London
10/12 O2 Arena – London
10/13 O2 Arena – London

Genesis The Last Domino? North America Tour Dates:

11/15 United Center – Chicago
11/18 Capitol One Arena – Washington DC
11/20 Spectrum Center – Charlotte
11/22 Centre Ball – Montreal
11/25 Scotiabank Arena – Toronto
11/27 Keybank Center – Buffalo
11/29 Little Caesars Arena – Detroit
11/30 Rocket Mortgage Field – Cleveland
12/02 Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia
12/05 Madison Square Garden – New York
12/08 Nationwide Arena – Columbus
12/10 UBS Arena – Belmont Park
12/13 PPG Paints Arena – Pittsburgh

THE DAMNED original line-up will reunite for a UK tour in 2021. Founding members Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Captain Sensible and Brian James will play four shows next July, tickets are on sale this Friday 23 Oct from https://t.co/Mnk8EztgSU pic.twitter.com/SxqwVJ84g9

— The Damned (@thedamned) October 21, 2020

This will mark the first time all 4 of the original band members have been on stage together for over 25 years. Scabies (the drummer) and James (the guitarist) will join in on stage after the two-decade break. The lead singer Dave Vanian is the only original band member to remain a constant since the band’s inception all the back in 1976.

The Damned rose to fame very quickly, both at home in the UK and overseas in the USA. Vanian, Sensible, and Scabies originally were part of a band called ‘Masters of the Backside‘ with the future frontwoman of the Pretenders Chrissie Hynde. She would later go on to say in her book ‘Reckless’ that “Without me, they were probably the most musically accomplished punk outfit in town” (Hynde, 2015)

On October 22nd, 1976, The Damned were the First Punk band to release a single (New Rose). The next year on the 18th of February 1977 they became the first British Punk band to release a full-length punk album (Damned Damned Damned). Later that same year in the spring of 1977 they then became the first British Punk band to tour the US

Fans were obviously very excited by the news of the original 4 piece band reforming after so many years. The band obviously is known for a lot of firsts in the British Punk scene is also known for a lot of splitting ups, getting back together, or members leaving. Having a grand total of 19 members over the course of the bands run and splitting up a number of times. The Damned truly lived up to the lifestyle and music of “fast living and faster music“

With RSVPing starting for their tour now and the ability to be notified when tickets go on sale, The Damned seemed to be getting the fans very excited. At present, there are only 4 gigs being played in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester. However, The Damned have added an option for fans to ask for the band to “Play in your city“.  Fans should be ready for tickets to be snapped up very fast much like The Damned’s fast pace style.

09/07/2021 – Eventim Apollo Hammersmith – London
16/07 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
17/07 – O2 Academy – Glasgow
18/07 – O2 Academy – Manchester

“It’s easy for me to say we had a plan, but everyone had a plan, you know what I mean?”, Way says. My Chemical Romance’s reunion show in December was the first show the band played live together after their last show in 2012, which was followed by their break-up in 2013. But just as the iconic rock band was about to start performing together again, the coronavirus put their plan on hold. “Live music isn’t going anywhere, it’s just on pause for everybody”, the bassist says, but he’s trying to not let it get to him: “I’m trying to take myself out of a selfish place. Everyone I know was about to do something.” The current situation has caused everyone to pause, not only the music scene, Way admits: “Whether you’re in a band, you’re a director, you work a retail job, you’re a gardener – you had a plan, and now it’s been disrupted.”

What are the odds that my chemical romance break up for 7 years, decide to reunite and to a world wide reunion tour only for there to be a worldwide fucking pandemic?

— whatsername (@Nia_papaya_) May 18, 2020

Whilst fans still have to wait for musical news from Way and his colleagues, they can still expect some news from their favourite bassist: His music plans with My Chemical Romance might be on hold, but his other artistic plans aren’t. In 2019, Way published his first series of comics, called Collapser, and he just announced news about releasing another graphic novel in September. His newest piece of work is inspired by and named after his other band, Electric Century, with the band’s new album coming out at the same time as a soundtrack to the novel.

Even though we must wait another year to see the iconic reunion happen in the UK, it’s still something to get excited about – and bassist Mikey Way agrees: “I feel like people are waiting with bated breath. It’s a light at the end of the tunnel and I think there’s something really cool about that.”

The first news of the tour came when a throwback photo was posted on the band’s Instagram page with the caption “And then there were three…”. This cryptic message, along with a post from Radio 2 announcing that “a massive band are reuniting” caused fans to theorize that they would be back together soon.

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And then there were three… . . . . . #genesis #genesisband #music#musiclover #musicfans #genesisfans #tonybanks #philcollins #mikerutherford #Throwback #Flashback

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Collins has hinted a reunion a few times, including in 2018, when he told Rolling Stone “I did mention to Tony very quietly if we did anything again it would be with Nic on drums.” Nic, Collins’ 18-year-old son, is also a drummer and has played drums on his father’s tour in 2016. Collins is unfortunately unable to play due to nerve damage to his hands, so he now takes the role of only the lead vocalist.

Additionally, when asked by Rolling Stone if he would be interested in drumming for a Genesis reunion, Nic said that he would definitely want to: “That Genesis stuff, drum-wise, is something else; absolutely unbelievable.” This morning, it was confirmed, along with Daryl Stuermer playing guitar and bass.

It’s official.@genesis_band are back together and heading out on tour later this year! Hear the band chatting to @ZoeTheBall right now on @BBCSounds https://t.co/TuXpxQoWkG pic.twitter.com/S9n2MDAEmK — BBC Radio 2 (@BBCRadio2) March 4, 2020

The band are looking forward to the tour just as much as fans are, with guitarist Mike Rutherford saying “It feels great, it feels the right time, we’re looking forward to doing it. A lot of our contemporaries have been playing a lot – we’ve done two shows in the UK in the last 28 years.”

Other details which were addressed on Radio 2 included the potential setlist. Collins said “There are songs you feel you have to play because the audience would feel cheated if you didn’t, then it’s a question of putting the rest of the stuff together from songs we haven’t played for a long time.”

Genesis are delighted to announce that @tonybanksmusic, @PhilCollinsFeed
and #MikeRutherford will be touring the UK in late 2020! Tickets go on sale on Friday at 9am.
More info here https://t.co/L0KvJuBNRw #lastdomino pic.twitter.com/X2RodjlpkJ

— Genesis (@genesis_band) March 4, 2020

Genesis formed in 1967, and have released 15 studio albums which all charted highly – their fourth album, ‘Foxtrot’, was their highest-charting release. Their sound progressed throughout each album, beginning as rock, eventually adding more pop influences, though still staying true to their core sound. They have sold 21.5 million albums copies in the US and an estimated 150 million worldwide.

It has been thirteen years since the band last toured in 2007, and now they plan their ‘Last Domino Tour’, with tickets going on sale at 9am on 6^th March. See the full tour dates below and find more information on the official website.

16/11/2020 – 3 Arena – Dublin, Ireland
19/11 – SSE Arena – Belfast, Ireland
23/11 – M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool, UK
26/11 – First Direct Arena – Leeds, UK
29/11 – O2 Arena – London, UK
30/11 – O2 Arena – London, UK
02/12 – Manchester Arena – Manchester, UK
05/12 – Birmingham Arena – Birmingham, UK
08/12 – SSE Hydro Arena – Glasgow, UK
11/12 – Utilita Arena – Newcastle, UK