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The next time someone dares to resurrect the fatigued ‘rock is dead’ debate, watch who’s saying it. The same goes for those who moan that artists should stay out of politics. Funnily enough, Gene Simmons - an older, wealthier white man - belongs to both camps.
The guitarist from KISS has flip-flopped on his opinions on Trump and
Artists can now apply for the UK Artist Touring (UKAT) fund to cover shortfalls in their upcoming tours.
As music fans, this is how your money is being spent if you've contributed £1 to the grassroots levy when buying a ticket to a contributing show that's over 5000 capacity.
With that in mind, we wanted to go quite deep about how fans' money is being s...
It’s safe to say the ticketing system works for almost nobody. Buying gig tickets is a thing to be endured, eroding both your patience and bank balance. As the issue has become more fraught, I’ve even known people say they were using up days of their annual leave to sit in virtual queues and battle janky technology in pursuit of breathing the same air as their favourite artis...
Like clockwork, some moments in the cultural calendar trigger the tedious "anti-woke" discourse. After Last Night of the Proms fury, comes Poppy rage (usually because someone took their jacket off), then its being angry about radio edits of 'Fairytale of New York', and then sometimes, if they have enough anger left, it's the annual politicians, Talk TV hosts, and Telegraph/Ma...
The girls treated it like prom: tops draping off shoulders, legs in fishnets, teetering around in platform boots. I saw them everywhere in The O2 last Friday night and I felt seen, because I was one of them. I was treating it like a capital-E event too, in an outfit too unseasonable for February – leather jacket, shorts, Docs, a smaller, tighter top than my usual boxy band sh...