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Perth Now
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Myles Smith eyes collaboration with 'great friend' Ed Sheeran
Myles Smith hopes to collaborate with "great friend" Ed Sheeran. The 'Stargazing' hitmaker - who had the biggest song of 2024 in the UK and just received his first Ivor Novello - is set to support the 'Bad Habits' hitmaker at his stadium shows and he's hopeful their friendship will lead to them hitting the studio together in the future. Speaking to Contact Music at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool on Saturday (24.05.25), Myles said of supporting Ed: "[I am] playing stadiums for the first time. It's pretty nuts; but I'm really excited for the challenge." Asked if he and Ed plan to collaborate, he replied: "Not at the moment, no. But he is a great friend, so hopefully in the future." Meanwhile, Myles has admitted he "never imagined" being named on Time 100's list of most influential people. The 26-year-old star has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last year, and Myles has admitted to being caught "off-guard" when he was named alongside the likes of Serena Williams and Mark Zuckerberg on the prestigious Time 100 list. He told the BBC: "That one caught me off guard. I never imagined I'd end up in it. It's mad. "I think I just felt really grateful, you know? To be recognised on that level for doing something I love." Myles' 2024 single, 'Stargazing', has already been streamed more than one billion times, and he's been amazed by the song's success. He said: "You always hope people connect with a song, but 'Stargazing' just seemed to take on a life of its own." Asked why the single has become so popular, Myles replied: "I think it's the honesty in it - everyone's either been through heartbreak or held on to hope when they probably shouldn't have. "It's simple, but it's real. And I think people felt that."
Perth Now
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
The Kooks guitarist Hugh Harris shares bold biopic opinion - 'it's inherently bias'
The Kooks guitarist Hugh Harris doesn't think bands should get biopics made on them until the members are all dead. In the past 20 years a number of acclaimed biographical movies about music stars have been released to acclaim and success, such as 'Walk the Line' about Johnny Cash, 'Rocket Man' which focuses on the life and career of Sir Elton John and 'Bohemian Rhapsody', which focused on Queen and late frontman Freddie Mercury and earned Rami Malek a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the flamboyant singer. However, Hugh doesn't think any film should be made about a group or solo artist whilst they're alive because that film will be "inherently bias". In an interview with website Contact Music, he said: "It's not OK to write your own - you've got to die first! "You can't be alive and write your own biopic because history is inherently bias towards the people that wrote it. "I think there's got to be some committee that takes the storytelling of yourself off your hands." Hugh's bandmate Luke Pritchard doesn't necessarily agree and thinks Timothee Chalamet could play him in a biopic on The Kooks. Luke said: "Timothee Chalamet can come in and play me!" The 'Naïve' hitmaker believes Chalamet would be able to play him because he just portrayed Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown' and Luke bears a striking resemblance to the legendary folk musician. Acknowledging his similar look to Bob, Luke quipped: "Oh, if only I could act! If only I'd gone to RADA!" The Kooks have just released their seventh album 'Never/Know' and Luke has revealed the uplifting vibe of the songs on the record, such as 'Sunny Baby', were partly inspired by the Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown'. The positive tracks that he and Hugh wrote for 'Never/Know' are a response to the current state of the world. He said: "[The record] is not unlike the '60s reaction, actually. I watched the Bob Dylan film and I guess the message the director was trying to make and the scriptwriter, is they had their problems then, they thought that nuclear war was going to break out at any time. My mum talks about it, they had drills on the Isle of Wight. The '60s expression was let's take LSD and go get some flowers and let's try and metaphysically change things. That music turned out in that kind of way. Through the modern lens sometimes people see it as a little bit too sunshine-y, but I think that's an interesting parallel."
