At the back door of the Manchester Arena, past two dozen hopeful women clutching cameraphones, past security scanners, past trucks, platforms and crates, past a door that says “Rick Astley” and another that says “Lulu”, three red, white and blue superhero costumes hang on a rail. Part Captain America, part Evel Knieval, they’re the first…
Lewis Capaldi is on top of the world in the back of a cab, not long off a plane from New York to find that back home his single, Someone You Loved, has held on to the number one spot for a third week and is likely to make it a fourth today. The sudden…
There are two things that Chris, the mononymic star of Christine and the Queens, knows about next week’s Brit Awards: what she’s going to wear, and that she isn’t going to win. When the musician born Heloise Letissier in Nantes was first nominated in the International Female category, in 2017, she lost out to Beyonce….
Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons is in a good place. Physically, that means he’s at home in LA, world tour done with, walking his six-year-old daughter to school every day, coaching her soccer team and also kept busy by her younger sisters – 18-month-old twins. Emotionally, things are looking up for the 31-year-old…
I’m not sure I really need to question Dave, the plain-named 19-year-old set to be the next big star of UK rap. The answers are all there on his new EP, Game Over. Three of the collection’s seven tracks – Question Time, How I Met My Ex and My 19th Birthday, the first two…
The O’Connells look like any other family on a trip as they bustle into their New York hotel. Mum and dad Maggie and Patrick, flustered but relieved to arrive; older brother Finneas, looking cool in a motorbike jacket and distracted with his girlfriend in tow; 15-year-old Billie, tired and moody after a late night; and…
Dave Grohl has another term for a band hiatus – he calls it an “I hate us”. There was reason to believe that his band Foo Fighters were on shaky ground at the start of last year. During their last world tour, the frontman’s badly broken leg meant the cancellation of seven massive shows…
The Followills come in two by two. That’s the way the three brothers and one cousin who make up Kings of Leon prefer to do interviews. First I get slow-talking middle sibling Caleb and his quieter cousin Matthew, the singer and the lead guitarist forming the more serious, less at ease faction of the…
When you’re out and about today, keep your eyes peeled for a small superstar in a big hat. Bruno Mars is in town, bringing a welcome dose of horn-swinging old-school entertainment to the O2 Arena. He’s here all week – try the veal. Mars is in the middle of four shows here, the…
In a sharp blue suit, impeccably shined shoes, necktie done up to the top button for once, handsome as a shop dummy, Michael Buble looks every inch the new host of the Brit Awards. It was announced today that the Canadian singer, a three-time International Male nominee whose mantelpiece is Brit-free, will be replacing Ant…