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Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Discover the big names heading to Southend festivals this summer
MUSIC lovers in Southend are in for a treat this summer with a host of world-class performers bringing their signature sounds to the city's festival stages. Spanning three unmissable festivals at Southend's Priory Park, these big name bookings promise to delight fans of all genres. Talent - Pete Doherty is set to delight a Lazydays audience (Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire) We've rounded up some of the most exciting names headed for Southend this summer: We're now on WhatsApp! Join our new channel at to get all the latest breaking news and exclusive stories delivered straight to your phone. Reef – Sausage and Cider Festival (Saturday June 21) Get ready to let loose as Britrock legends Reef hit the stage at the Sausage and Cider Festival. Brining a catalogue of unmistakable anthems, raw energy, and feel-good vibes, attendees can expect a set packed with huge tunes like 'Place Your Hands' and more. One night in Nashville – Summer in Nashville (Sunday June 22) Get ready for a taste of Tennessee as One Night in Nashville brings the heart and soul of country music to this brand-new Southend festival. Serving an authentic Nashville sound, huge anthems, and a high-energy live show, they'll have you singing and dancing throughout the night. Example – Lazydays (Friday July 25) Possibly one of the UK's biggest dance music icons, Example, will kick-off Lazydays 2025. With a legacy of chart-smashing singles, legendary festival performances, sold-out tours, and multiple platinum albums under his belt, this is a show you won't want to miss. Pete Doherty – Lazydays (Saturday July 26) The one and only Pete Doherty — iconic frontman of The Libertines and Babyshambles — is Lazydays's Saturday night headliner. With a brand-new album on the way, attendees can expect a special solo set with his band, packed with fresh tracks and timeless classics from across his legendary back catalogue. Legacy - Jazzie B will lead Soul II Soul at Lazydays (Image: David Parry/PA Media Assignments)Soul II Soul – Lazydays (Sunday July 27) Rounding off Lazydays 2025 in true style are the double Grammy Award-winning, five-time Brit-nominated legends, Soul II Soul. Jazzie B and his full 15-piece band will be lighting up Priory Park with their signature soul sounds and R&B vibes.
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
On the screen and also in life, Marianne Faithfull experienced something similar to her contemporary Anita Pallenberg – the condescension of being treated like an icon or a muse. Maybe her very real success in music ruled her out of a serious acting career in the eyes of some, but Faithfull for a while occupied the epicentre of the late-60s pop culture zeitgeist, for an intense flashbulb moment she found herself in the overlapping worlds of music, movies and the explodingly important world of celebrity itself. The famous photograph of her in 1967 on a couch between Alain Delon and Mick Jagger absolutely captures her magnetism: Delon is entranced by her, Jagger (her boyfriend) is jealous, looking grumpily down: she and Delon were starring together in The Girl on a Motorcycle by the British cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff in which she was the super-sexy rock chick in a leather body suit whose zipper Delon would lasciviously pull down with his teeth. Around the same time, Jean-Luc Godard gave her a prominent cameo in his archly anti-American Made in USA, singing her chart-topping single As Tears Go By in a cafe, a song that mysteriously becomes the soundtrack to the main characters' tensions and discontents. Godard homed in on her brand identity as a muse for the modishly rebellious Britrock invasion of America and the world – but Godard favoured her as a follower of the bad-boy Stones, not the goody-two-shoes Beatles. She had also appeared in the trendspotting comedy I'll Never Forget What's'isname, from director Michael Winner about that most fashionable of figures: an ad man. She was enigmatic goddess Lilith in Kenneth Anger's experimental Lucifer Rising. These were not films that made great demands on Faithfull's acting skills, although she certainly had them, as could be seen in Tony Richardson's filmed version of his stage production of Hamlet, in which Faithfull was a poignantly frail Ophelia opposite Nicol Williamson's prince and Anthony Hopkins' king – singing beautifully. But perhaps it was her destiny in later years (like Pallenberg) to get small parts, some in productions where her presence facilitated financial backing. She was briefly in a 1974 mystery horror called Ghost Story, with Vivian MacKerrell, who inspired the figure of Withnail in Withnail and I. She was briefly in the 90s crime drama Shopping and in Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy. But a lot of the time it was a question of affectionately and respectfully intended iconic cameos, intended at some level to conjure up the authority of that 60s buzz: Gus Van Sant put her in his short Le Marais in 2006 as part of the Paris, Je T'Aime anthology and the same year Sofia Coppola made her the Empress Maria Theresa, mother of Kirsten Dunst's Marie Antoinette in her film of that name. But she was also prominent (unfortunately) in that somewhat bizarre British movie Irina Palm from 2008 in which she plays an older woman who turns to sex work to pay for her grandson's operation, taking advantage of her silky palms – giving hand relief via glory holes in a sex clubs to men who never see her. It was a film that briefly gave rise to a prize called the Irina Palm d'Or for the most entirely unsatisfactory British film. Perhaps Faithfull is a figure from music and pop culture from the lost swinging age rather than cinema, but without the movies she would not have been so potent.
