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"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place," came the not altogether unexpected announcement from the Glastonbury organisers. For the second year in a row the biggest festival in the UK, and one of the biggest in the world, will now not take place. Michael and Emily Eavis communicated their decision to pull the plug on this years event via a Twitter post on Thursday 21st January.   

With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Full statement below and on our website. Michael & Emily pic.twitter.com/SlNdwA2tHd

— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) January 21, 2021

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Britney Spears ANNOUNCES NEW LAS VEGAS RESIDENCY

Britney Spears has announced details of a second Las Vegas residency, following the resounding success of her Piece Of Me run which lasted a staggering four years.

The move was announced on Thursday night (October 18th) that the 36 year old pop megastar will have a new residency, slated to begin in 2019 at the theater inside the new Park MGM Resort.

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Blossoms ''can't wait'' for fans to hear their second record.

The 'Charlemagne' rockers' self-titled debut LP turned a year old on Saturday (05.08.17) and the lads have barely stopped touring ever since it was released, but they are looking forward to getting some new material out there.

Sharing a black and white photograph of the band - comprised of Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock - on Instagram, they wrote on the anniversary: ''So today our debut album is 1 year old! Thanks to everyone who bought it, came to see us live, it's been the best year of our lives so far. We've been bsuy recording our second album and we can't wait for you to hear it. (sic)''

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Blossoms paid tribute to 1985 blockbuster 'Back To The Future' with their new video for 'Honey Sweet', featuring a time-travelling Delorean. Plus, they make a brief reference to a future date later this year, though the significance is so far ambiguous.

Blossoms unveil their 'Honey Sweet' video

The video opens with lead vocalist Tom Ogden perusing a road map before calling up the other band members on an old rotary dial phone. They later join up for a bike trip, riding around Stockpart. There's a very deliberate retro vibe here, with a number of vintage cars dotted around the place, and the video ends with the band arriving at a garage in which a time-travelling Delorean is parked with the number place 'OUTATIME'.

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Sadly, this isn’t April Fool’s Day. Bradley Walsh scored the biggest selling debut album by a British act in 2016 with his record Chasing Dreams. That’s right: TV presenter Bradley Walsh.

The 56 year old host of ITV gameshow ‘The Chase’ outsold the likes of indie act Blossoms, singer-songwriter Jack Garratt and even former One Direction star Zayn Malik to become the only new British act to achieve a gold record in 2016.

Chasing Dreams, an album of covers of jazz standards such as ‘That’s Life’ and ‘Mr. Bojangles’, in addition to the title track which is an original composition, shifted 111,650 copies since it was released by Sony CG in October, according to Music Business Worldwide. It reached no.10 in the British charts, but has remained popular enough to be the 57th best-selling album of the year.

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Blossoms are at number one again this week with their self-titled debut album. The band are now the first artists to score two consecutive weeks at the top spot in the UK albums chart since Adele's managed three in March with 25.

Blossoms are still on top of the UK albums chart

Last week the Stockport band said they were “made up” over the success of the album. Speaking to The Official Charts Company the band said: "We're absolutely made up that the album has gone to Number One. From the scaffolding yard to the top of the charts, who'd have thought it? Viva Stockport!”

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Stockport five-piece Blossoms have hit number one on the UK album chart with their self-titled debut album. The band say they are “made up” over the success of the album, which outsold its nearest chart rival by 9,500 copies.

Blossoms debut album is this week's UK number one

Speaking to The Official Charts Company the band said: "We're absolutely made up that the album has gone to Number One. From the scaffolding yard to the top of the charts, who'd have thought it? Viva Stockport!”

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All headliners for Wales' Festival No. 6 have now been announced, with Metronomy now heading the bill with Grace Jones and Belle & Sebastian. Further new acts have also been added to the line-up, while many more acts are yet to be announced.

British electronic collective Metronomy head the bill with Jamaican crooner Grace Jones and Glasgow pop group Belle & Sebastian as a host of other new bands are added to the festival line-up. The fourth instalment of this uniquely cultured festival is set to hit Portmeirion from September 3rd to 6th, bringing with it some fine artists such as Catfish & The Bottlemen, Jame Bay, Stornoway and Blossoms to name but a few.

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