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28-05-2025
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Chevelle Announce New Album, Unveil Single 'Jim Jones (Cowards, Pt. 2)': Stream
The post Chevelle Announce New Album, Unveil Single 'Jim Jones (Cowards, Pt. 2)': Stream appeared first on Consequence. Chevelle have announced their 10th studio album, Bright as Blasphemy, arriving August 15th via Alchemy Recordings. The Illinois alt-metal vets also dropped a new song, 'Jim Jones (Cowards, Pt. 2),' the sequel to the album's previously released lead single 'Rabbit Hole (Cowards, Pt. 1).' The forceful track touts thick groove-metal riffs and an inspired performance from singer-guitarist Pete Loeffler, who puts his falsetto to work across the five-minute runtime. Get Chevelle Tickets Here 'History teaches us the longest rabbit hole has no end,' the band succinctly said about the new song via a press release, following up the ominous message expressed in the prior single 'Rabbit Hole (Cowards, Pt. 1).' Themes of dystopian techno-futurism run through both songs, as well as the LP sleeve art and various track titles such as 'AI Phobias' and 'Shocked at the End of the World.' 'Human Existence encompasses both inherent challenges and potential,' stated the band. 'It's up to you how to pass the time. Enjoy.' Chevelle will surely be debuting material from Bright as Blasphemy on their upcoming North American tour with Asking Alexandria and Dead Poet Society. Dates kick off in August, with tickets available here. You can pre-order Bright as Blasphemy via Chevelle's online merch store. Below you can stream the lyric video for 'Jim Jones (Cowards, Pt. 2)' and see the album art and tracklist. Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Pale Horse 02. Rabbit Hole (Cowards, Pt. 1) 03. Jim Jones (Cowards, Pt. 2) 04. Hallucinations 05. Wolves (Love & Light) 06. Karma Goddess 07. Blood out in the Fields 08. AI Phobias 09. Shocked at the End of the World Popular Posts Billy Joel Diagnosed with Brain Disorder, Cancels All Upcoming Tour Dates Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest The 30 Best Action Movie Stars of All Time, Ranked Freddie Mercury's Alleged Child Revealed in New Biography Is The Who's Farewell Tour in Turmoil? Zach Braff to Return for Scrubs Reboot Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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28-03-2025
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Can the ‘feel-good' movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' proves maybe it can
NEW YORK (AP) — By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now. But that's not so easy when your movie is about a handful of people off the coast of Wales brought together by old songs. Yet one of many charms of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is that it has no intentions of timeliness. It has nothing to do with 'now,' which, in a way, might make it all the better suited to today. 'Weirdly, it's not a right-now movie, but that's what makes it a right-now movie. Hopefully it's heartwarming, and everything's falling apart at the moment,' says Tim Key, who co-stars in and co-wrote the film with Tom Basden. 'So I guess that's a good thing.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' which Focus Features released Friday in theaters, stars Basden as Herb McGwyer, a famous folk musician turned pop star who, in the opening scenes, arrives at the rural seaside home of Charles (Key) for a private £500,000 ($647, 408) gig. After his chipper host helps him off the skiff and into the water ('Dame Judi Drenched,' Charles pronounces), Herb learns he'll be performing for 'less than 100' people. Just how significantly less unspools over the gentle, funny and sweetly poignant 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the springtime movie release that may be most likely to leave audiences saying: 'I needed that.' 'Both of us have felt there's a case to be made for stuff that isn't relevant, that isn't satirical, that isn't a comment on the story of the day,' says Basden. 'Those are the films that have meant the most to me over the years. They're the ones that let me escape from the here and now. But it's not always easy to get people to see it that way when you're getting things made.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is, itself, a product of time. It's based on a 2007 short that Key and Basden made together when they, and director James Griffiths, were just starting out in show business. All three have since gone on to their respective, often overlapping careers. Key and Basden began in sketch comedy (their group was called the Cowards) and have been regular presences across offbeat British comedy. Key co-starred in Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge series and hosted a comic poetry hour radio show with Basden providing musical accompaniment. Basden, who created the BBC sitcom 'Here We Go,' has, among other things, written plays, including a riff on Franz Kafka's 'The Trial,' starring Key. When Basden and Key, now in their 40s, made 2007's 'The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,' they knew little of what lay ahead for them, let alone much about how to make a movie. 'I don't have any sort of discernable haircut,' says Key looking back. 'I'm wearing my father's cardigan.' But while the premise — the soggy collision between cynical star and lonely superfan — was thin, the concept of the BAFTA-nominated short stuck with Key, Basden and Griffiths. Griffiths, who moved on to directing series like 'black-ish,' 'Stumptown' and 'Bad Sisters,' wanted to revisit the short during the pandemic. 'Tim and Tom spent a lot of time in nature's makeup chair. They've become the right age for the characters,' says Griffiths. 'When we made the short, it was very much the idea of a sketch – an odd couple on an island. But over time, we've all grown up and as we've expanded on those characters, you start to see you're commenting on your own lived experience.' In the script, Key and Basden decided to only slightly expand the cast, most notably creating the role of Nell Mortimer, the former folk singing partner of Herb's. The arrival of Nell, played by Carey Mulligan, brings up much about Herb's past as part of the duo known as McGwyer Mortimer, who represent an authenticity in music Herb lost long ago. For Charles, a genial pun-happy puppy dog of a man who says things like 'Wowsers in your trousers,' McGwyer Mortimer's music represents something nostalgic from an earlier relationship, too. 'You can probably tell from our characters in the film that Tim has a much more positive energy than me, generally,' says Basden. "And I have absolutely leaned on his optimism over the years to counteract my natural pessimism. I count myself very lucky that I have Tim in my life for that reason alone. Mulligan, an executive producer on the film, didn't hesitate to join despite, as Key says, 'huge question marks over whether or not we could keep our composure with Carey Mulligan.' 'I was a huge Tim Key fan and Tom (fan). We were obsessed with the late-night poetry hour,' says Mulligan, who's married to folk star Marcus Mumford. 'Before I even read it, my husband was like, 'You've got to do it.'' Though Mulligan has starred in many films that speak more directly to their times ('She Said,' 'Promising Young Woman,' 'Suffragette'), she reveled in the the un-timeliness of 'Wallis Island." With it, Mulligan, a co-star in the Coen brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' becomes the rare actor to appear in not one but two movies about dissolved folk duos. 'It's generous and it's compassionate, and a reminder of what generosity can be and compassion can look like,' Mulligan says. 'A big part of my attraction to it was its unseriousness and its lack of quote-unquote 'importance.' I was like, 'I want to make something that's just lovely.'' Griffiths, who grew up enamored of the films of Bill Forsyth, was inspired by the much-adored 1983 'Local Hero,' which likewise centers around an outsider arriving on a far-away United Kingdom coastline. (In 'Local Hero,' it's Scotland.) Griffiths, who divorced in the intervening years, wanted to return to 'Wallis Island' much as its characters are seeking to revive something from their past. 'You look back and go: 'Oh, I got here and I didn't expect to be making this kind of work,'' says Griffiths. 'I wanted to press the reset button a little bit and make something I really wanted to make.' How you make something sincerely heartwarming without tipping into over-sentimentality has bedeviled most Hollywood moviemakers for the better part of a century. In the case of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the key ingredient, perhaps, besides the abiding friendship of Key and Basden, was simply time. 'There's something about going back to a project you made 18 years earlier and then realizing you're making a film about people who are obsessed with their life 15 years earlier,' says Basden. 'You're like: Hang on a minute. I haven't used my imagination at all.'
The Independent
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Can the ‘feel-good' movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' proves maybe it can
By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now. But that's not so easy when your movie is about a handful of people off the coast of Wales brought together by old songs. Yet one of many charms of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is that it has no intentions of timeliness. It has nothing to do with 'now,' which, in a way, might make it all the better suited to today. 'Weirdly, it's not a right-now movie, but that's what makes it a right-now movie. Hopefully it's heartwarming, and everything's falling apart at the moment,' says Tim Key, who co-stars in and co-wrote the film with Tom Basden. 'So I guess that's a good thing.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' which Focus Features released Friday in theaters, stars Basden as Herb McGwyer, a famous folk musician turned pop star who, in the opening scenes, arrives at the rural seaside home of Charles (Key) for a private £500,000 ($647, 408) gig. After his chipper host helps him off the skiff and into the water ('Dame Judi Drenched,' Charles pronounces), Herb learns he'll be performing for 'less than 100' people. Just how significantly less unspools over the gentle, funny and sweetly poignant 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the springtime movie release that may be most likely to leave audiences saying: 'I needed that.' 'Both of us have felt there's a case to be made for stuff that isn't relevant, that isn't satirical, that isn't a comment on the story of the day,' says Basden. 'Those are the films that have meant the most to me over the years. They're the ones that let me escape from the here and now. But it's not always easy to get people to see it that way when you're getting things made.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is, itself, a product of time. It's based on a 2007 short that Key and Basden made together when they, and director James Griffiths, were just starting out in show business. All three have since gone on to their respective, often overlapping careers. Key and Basden began in sketch comedy (their group was called the Cowards) and have been regular presences across offbeat British comedy. Key co-starred in Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge series and hosted a comic poetry hour radio show with Basden providing musical accompaniment. Basden, who created the BBC sitcom 'Here We Go,' has, among other things, written plays, including a riff on Franz Kafka's 'The Trial,' starring Key. When Basden and Key, now in their 40s, made 2007's 'The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,' they knew little of what lay ahead for them, let alone much about how to make a movie. 'I don't have any sort of discernable haircut,' says Key looking back. 'I'm wearing my father's cardigan.' But while the premise — the soggy collision between cynical star and lonely superfan — was thin, the concept of the BAFTA-nominated short stuck with Key, Basden and Griffiths. Griffiths, who moved on to directing series like 'black-ish,' 'Stumptown' and 'Bad Sisters,' wanted to revisit the short during the pandemic. 'Tim and Tom spent a lot of time in nature's makeup chair. They've become the right age for the characters,' says Griffiths. 'When we made the short, it was very much the idea of a sketch – an odd couple on an island. But over time, we've all grown up and as we've expanded on those characters, you start to see you're commenting on your own lived experience.' In the script, Key and Basden decided to only slightly expand the cast, most notably creating the role of Nell Mortimer, the former folk singing partner of Herb's. The arrival of Nell, played by Carey Mulligan, brings up much about Herb's past as part of the duo known as McGwyer Mortimer, who represent an authenticity in music Herb lost long ago. For Charles, a genial pun-happy puppy dog of a man who says things like 'Wowsers in your trousers,' McGwyer Mortimer's music represents something nostalgic from an earlier relationship, too. 'You can probably tell from our characters in the film that Tim has a much more positive energy than me, generally,' says Basden. "And I have absolutely leaned on his optimism over the years to counteract my natural pessimism. I count myself very lucky that I have Tim in my life for that reason alone. Mulligan, an executive producer on the film, didn't hesitate to join despite, as Key says, 'huge question marks over whether or not we could keep our composure with Carey Mulligan.' 'I was a huge Tim Key fan and Tom (fan). We were obsessed with the late-night poetry hour,' says Mulligan, who's married to folk star Marcus Mumford. 'Before I even read it, my husband was like, 'You've got to do it.'' Though Mulligan has starred in many films that speak more directly to their times ('She Said,' 'Promising Young Woman,' 'Suffragette'), she reveled in the the un-timeliness of 'Wallis Island." With it, Mulligan, a co-star in the Coen brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' becomes the rare actor to appear in not one but two movies about dissolved folk duos. 'It's generous and it's compassionate, and a reminder of what generosity can be and compassion can look like,' Mulligan says. 'A big part of my attraction to it was its unseriousness and its lack of quote-unquote 'importance.' I was like, 'I want to make something that's just lovely.'' Griffiths, who grew up enamored of the films of Bill Forsyth, was inspired by the much-adored 1983 'Local Hero,' which likewise centers around an outsider arriving on a far-away United Kingdom coastline. (In 'Local Hero,' it's Scotland.) Griffiths, who divorced in the intervening years, wanted to return to 'Wallis Island' much as its characters are seeking to revive something from their past. 'You look back and go: 'Oh, I got here and I didn't expect to be making this kind of work,'' says Griffiths. 'I wanted to press the reset button a little bit and make something I really wanted to make.' How you make something sincerely heartwarming without tipping into over-sentimentality has bedeviled most Hollywood moviemakers for the better part of a century. In the case of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the key ingredient, perhaps, besides the abiding friendship of Key and Basden, was simply time. 'There's something about going back to a project you made 18 years earlier and then realizing you're making a film about people who are obsessed with their life 15 years earlier,' says Basden. 'You're like: Hang on a minute. I haven't used my imagination at all.'
Associated Press
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Can the ‘feel-good' movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' proves maybe it can
NEW YORK (AP) — By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now. But that's not so easy when your movie is about a handful of people off the coast of Wales brought together by old songs. Yet one of many charms of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is that it has no intentions of timeliness. It has nothing to do with 'now,' which, in a way, might make it all the better suited to today. 'Weirdly, it's not a right-now movie, but that's what makes it a right-now movie. Hopefully it's heartwarming, and everything's falling apart at the moment,' says Tim Key, who co-stars in and co-wrote the film with Tom Basden. 'So I guess that's a good thing.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' which Focus Features released Friday in theaters, stars Basden as Herb McGwyer, a famous folk musician turned pop star who, in the opening scenes, arrives at the rural seaside home of Charles (Key) for a private £500,000 ($647, 408) gig. After his chipper host helps him off the skiff and into the water ('Dame Judi Drenched,' Charles pronounces), Herb learns he'll be performing for 'less than 100' people. Just how significantly less unspools over the gentle, funny and sweetly poignant 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the springtime movie release that may be most likely to leave audiences saying: 'I needed that.' 'Both of us have felt there's a case to be made for stuff that isn't relevant, that isn't satirical, that isn't a comment on the story of the day,' says Basden. 'Those are the films that have meant the most to me over the years. They're the ones that let me escape from the here and now. But it's not always easy to get people to see it that way when you're getting things made.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is, itself, a product of time. It's based on a 2007 short that Key and Basden made together when they, and director James Griffiths, were just starting out in show business. All three have since gone on to their respective, often overlapping careers. Key and Basden began in sketch comedy (their group was called the Cowards) and have been regular presences across offbeat British comedy. Key co-starred in Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge series and hosted a comic poetry hour radio show with Basden providing musical accompaniment. Basden, who created the BBC sitcom 'Here We Go,' has, among other things, written plays, including a riff on Franz Kafka's 'The Trial,' starring Key. When Basden and Key, now in their 40s, made 2007's 'The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,' they knew little of what lay ahead for them, let alone much about how to make a movie. 'I don't have any sort of discernable haircut,' says Key looking back. 'I'm wearing my father's cardigan.' But while the premise — the soggy collision between cynical star and lonely superfan — was thin, the concept of the BAFTA-nominated short stuck with Key, Basden and Griffiths. Griffiths, who moved on to directing series like 'black-ish,' 'Stumptown' and 'Bad Sisters,' wanted to revisit the short during the pandemic. 'Tim and Tom spent a lot of time in nature's makeup chair. They've become the right age for the characters,' says Griffiths. 'When we made the short, it was very much the idea of a sketch – an odd couple on an island. But over time, we've all grown up and as we've expanded on those characters, you start to see you're commenting on your own lived experience.' In the script, Key and Basden decided to only slightly expand the cast, most notably creating the role of Nell Mortimer, the former folk singing partner of Herb's. The arrival of Nell, played by Carey Mulligan, brings up much about Herb's past as part of the duo known as McGwyer Mortimer, who represent an authenticity in music Herb lost long ago. For Charles, a genial pun-happy puppy dog of a man who says things like 'Wowsers in your trousers,' McGwyer Mortimer's music represents something nostalgic from an earlier relationship, too. 'You can probably tell from our characters in the film that Tim has a much more positive energy than me, generally,' says Basden. 'And I have absolutely leaned on his optimism over the years to counteract my natural pessimism. I count myself very lucky that I have Tim in my life for that reason alone. Mulligan, an executive producer on the film, didn't hesitate to join despite, as Key says, 'huge question marks over whether or not we could keep our composure with Carey Mulligan.' 'I was a huge Tim Key fan and Tom (fan). We were obsessed with the late-night poetry hour,' says Mulligan, who's married to folk star Marcus Mumford. 'Before I even read it, my husband was like, 'You've got to do it.'' Though Mulligan has starred in many films that speak more directly to their times ('She Said,' 'Promising Young Woman,' 'Suffragette'), she reveled in the the un-timeliness of 'Wallis Island.' With it, Mulligan, a co-star in the Coen brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' becomes the rare actor to appear in not one but two movies about dissolved folk duos. 'It's generous and it's compassionate, and a reminder of what generosity can be and compassion can look like,' Mulligan says. 'A big part of my attraction to it was its unseriousness and its lack of quote-unquote 'importance.' I was like, 'I want to make something that's just lovely.'' Griffiths, who grew up enamored of the films of Bill Forsyth, was inspired by the much-adored 1983 'Local Hero,' which likewise centers around an outsider arriving on a far-away United Kingdom coastline. (In 'Local Hero,' it's Scotland.) Griffiths, who divorced in the intervening years, wanted to return to 'Wallis Island' much as its characters are seeking to revive something from their past. 'You look back and go: 'Oh, I got here and I didn't expect to be making this kind of work,'' says Griffiths. 'I wanted to press the reset button a little bit and make something I really wanted to make.' How you make something sincerely heartwarming without tipping into over-sentimentality has bedeviled most Hollywood moviemakers for the better part of a century. In the case of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the key ingredient, perhaps, besides the abiding friendship of Key and Basden, was simply time. 'There's something about going back to a project you made 18 years earlier and then realizing you're making a film about people who are obsessed with their life 15 years earlier,' says Basden. 'You're like: Hang on a minute. I haven't used my imagination at all.'
BBC News
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Sutton's predictions v Squid guitarist Anton Pearson
Bournemouth have already beaten four of the Premier League's top five at home this season, so can they complete the set when they host leaders Liverpool on Saturday?"With their form in the past few weeks, Bournemouth have made everyone sit up and take notice," said BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton."They haven't just beaten sides who are out of form, they have beaten sides who were flying, like Newcastle and Nottingham Forest. Not only that, they have smashed them too."Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against a variety of week 24, he takes on Anton Pearson, guitarist with art-rock band latest single, Building 650, is out now and their new album, Cowards, is released on 7 you agree with their scores? You can make your own most popular scoreline selected for each game is used in the scoreboards and tables at the bottom of this page. Anton is a Celtic supporter from rural Norfolk so he should really be a huge Chris Sutton fan - but it turns out Chris is still not his favourite Bhoys striker."I had to find my own team to follow when I was growing up, because none of my family were Norwich fans," Anton told BBC Sport."My dad is part Swedish so when I was a kid in the 1990s, Henrik Larrson was just god for me. I was totally obsessed with him, and had all his shirts and everything, and that's why I followed Celtic."My main consumption of football back then was reading the scores in the newspaper my parents got, so I was always checking the match reports and the scores for everything he did."Chris was a great player for us too, though. They had such a good partnership which helped us win so much and took us to the Uefa Cup final in 2003 too - I am a big admirer of him as well."I think since Larsson, my favourite striker has been Kyogo Furuhashi, who was such a great finisher."He is similar to Larrson in that he is quite humble and stayed at the club longer than most players stick around, so I am quite sad he has left this week." Celtic have not enjoyed too much European success since 2003, but have just secured a place in the Champions League knockout phase play-offs."Europe feels like the real test of how good we are," Pearson added."It is great winning the league, but we have not always had much competition there."At the moment it feels like this is certainly the best team we have had since the first Neil Lennon era and if we can get through the play-offs, it would be the best we've done since the Martin O'Neill era."It feels a bit in the balance at the moment because Kyogo has gone but hopefully we can get the Kieran Tierney transfer over the line in this window."If Jota comes back and is good as he was, we might be in a strong position, but at the moment it is like we have lost our best striker."Chris Sutton and Anton Pearson were speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. Saturday, 1 February City Ground, 12:30 GMTI got talking to a Nottingham Forest fan, a lawyer called Mr Gooch, at Birmingham New Street Station on my way back from covering Aston Villa versus was having a bit of banter with me about how I have suddenly become a Forest fan now they are doing well - so I asked him to give me a prediction for this Gooch has gone for a 2-2 draw, and his reasoning for not backing Forest to win is that Callum Hudson-Odoi is out and he has been a really integral part of their success this be honest, I am happy to take any help I can here, because Brighton have been so unpredictable this are a top-half team but their results have been quite up and down, and they have also drawn 10 games, more than any other top-flight Mr Gooch, I thought this might end up being another draw. I would have gone for 1-1, but I am going to use his score watches Forest every week so he is a proper fan, not someone who has jumped on the bandwagon like myself, so I will listen to him - although I may take legal action if he is prediction: 2-2Anton's prediction: I saw that Emma-Jean Thackray is quite near the top of the guest leaderboard for these predictions. She played on our first album and we have done some gigs with her - so my challenge is to beat Chris and finish above her. I live in Brighton so a lot of my friends support them and I've been to a few games. This is a tough one to call because while Forest have been amazing they got smashed 5-0 by Bournemouth. Brighton are pretty solid so I've gone for a draw. 1-1 Vitality Stadium, 15:00 GMTLiverpool had the luxury of resting players for their final Champions League group game, Wednesday's defeat at PSV Eindhoven, and still finish top of the are some who will question whether that is in the spirit of the competition, but if you were Reds boss Arne Slot then what would you do? They are trying to win everything at the moment and they had earned the right to make those players will be well rested for this game but I just have a feeling about Bournemouth at the Cherries are depleted by injuries, and you cannot discount Mohamed Salah winning it for Liverpool the way he has done so many times Andoni Iraola's side have already beaten Arsenal and Manchester City here this season, as well as Forest and Newcastle, and they have taken as many points as Liverpool - 22 - in their past 10 first thought was to go for a 2-2 draw but then I was reminded of the pledge I made last week to be braver and back Bournemouth helped me to be right about them beating Forest, so I don't really have much choice but to carry on being brave, do I?Sutton's prediction: 2-1Anton's prediction: It's still probably most likely that Liverpool will win, but Bournemouth will cause them some problems. Justin Kluivert is playing really well for the Cherries. 2-3Anton on who will win the title? Liverpool are going to do it. If anyone is going to challenge them, it will be Arsenal but it is going to take a few unexpected results from Liverpool to let them back in. Goodison Park, 15:00 GMTBoth of these teams got good wins last week, but it's hard to know what to make of Leicester beating Tottenham because of the spell Spurs are going through.I don't see that result as meaning the Foxes have turned a corner, but it was massive for them after seven straight league a player Leicester striker Jamie Vardy is by the way. He seems to be getting quicker, at the age of 38, and is still scoring really important goals for was Everton's victory at Brighton that impressed me the most, are still not going to be free-scoring but the centre-back partnership between James Tarkowski and Jarrad Branthwaite, with Jordan Pickford behind them, has given new boss David Moyes the foundation he wants.I am backing them to edge this game too, which would give Moyes a hat-trick of wins and a bit of breathing space over the bottom prediction: 1-0Anton's prediction: Leicester beat Spurs but they haven't been great. Everton look really solid under Moyes. 1-0 Portman Road, 15:00 GMTSouthampton's fight is not about whether they can stay up, it is whether they can avoid being the worst Premier League team of all time and beat Derby County's total of 11 points from are still battling to avoid relegation, but I am worried about them in this game.I am not sure whether to go with my heart or my head - well, when I say my heart I am actually thinking of my daughter's teacher, Mr Fields, who is an Ipswich they lose this, it would be very damaging for their hopes of surviving. I'd go so far as saying I'd be buying a white flag of surrender for Mr Fields to wave whenever he sees me when I drop my daughter off at two sides drew 1-1 earlier in the season, when a 95th-minute Sam Morsy goal denied Saints the win.I don't think Ipswich will keep a clean sheet this time, either, but I am backing Liam Delap to come good, and help them pick up what would be a huge three prediction: 2-1Anton's prediction: I've gone for Ipswich here. I feel for Southampton - I know a lot of Norwich fans and from them I know how miserable it can be to get promoted to the Premier League and have a horrible season. 2-0 St James' Park, 15:00 GMTFulham are another team I am finding very hard to predict, but Newcastle are a lot more they were walloped by Bournemouth last time out at St James' Park, but before then they had won five in a row at home in all are capable of causing them problems and showed that when they beat them 3-1 at Craven Cottage in I am going to go for a reverse of that scoreline here. Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon are in excellent form and they will make the prediction: 3-1Anton's prediction: Isak is just unstoppable at the moment. 3-1 Molineux, 17:30 GMTI would be so disappointed if Aston Villa striker Jhon Duran moves to Saudi is 21, and coming into his prime. He could go there and earn all the money in the world but he would be leaving the best league there is, just as he has started making a splash in is his prerogative but, as a career move, I think it's the wrong situation, with Arsenal making an offer for Ollie Watkins too, must be very annoying for Villa boss Unai has worked hard to get the club into the Champions League, and with two good strikers he can rotate them. It has worked really well, but seemingly won't be an option for much have other problems too. They are short of options at centre-half and Emery had to play a midfielder, Boubacar Kamara, there against Celtic on Wednesday are some things to be positive about, however. Morgan Rogers was absolutely superb against Celtic and is an exciting while Villa have got goals in them, I am just not sure they will keep Wolves have not won any of their past six games straight after a Champions League tie, and I don't see this week being any are on a horrible run of four successive league defeats, with 10 goals conceded and just one scored, so even a draw would be a boost for Vitor Pereira's must also be worried about losing his main goalscorer, Matheus Cunha, before the transfer window shuts on Monday. I am not sure whether Cunha will stay, but I think Wolves will get a point prediction: 2-2Anton's prediction: Celtic will have tired Villa out but they have still got enough about them to win this. 0-2 Sunday, 2 February Gtech Community Stadium, 14:00 GMTMicky van de Ven's return from injury is great news for Tottenham, but he cannot be expected to transform their fortunes on his week's defeat by Leicester was hugely damaging to Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou and his side were so flat in that game. They have only picked up five points from their past 11 games and they cannot afford to keep on losing.I don't think Postecoglou has been helped by the club's lack of activity in the transfer market. They have had all these injuries but they have brought in a goalkeeper, Antonin Kinsky, to add to their senior squad, and that's it.I look at Brentford and think they are going to do this Spurs team some damage. With Bryan Mbeumo on the right and Yoane Wissa up front, the Bees have got a lot of goals in the team. They will have a go at Spurs and I think they will find a way prediction: 2-1Anton's prediction: I feel bad for Ange because he does not seem very happy and he has been a bit prickly with reporters - it feels like all of his good energy that we saw from him at Celtic has been sapped out of him. I still think Spurs should keep him, though, because I don't see how things are going to get better with someone else. I hope things turn around for him soon. 2-0 Old Trafford, 14:00 GMTI was wrong when I said Manchester United would lose at Fulham last week, which a few people happily reminded me about on social was not exactly a convincing win, but maybe things will click for them here - I have my doubts though.I have got a bit of sympathy for United striker Rasmus Hojlund, who is getting some criticism at the moment. He was signed as a development player, albeit an expensive one, but it has not happened for are two sides to his situation though. I feel sorry for him because he needs a run of games to find some rhythm, but he also needs to take his chances when they come, and do better at some of the basics, like holding the ball not the only player at United in that situation, with something to they will become a free-scoring side again, but that probably won't happen here and it still feels like we are totally guessing about what they will do each Palace lost at home to Brentford on Sunday, which was a bit of a surprise because they have been so solid Eagles won at Old Trafford last season, but this game has got a draw written all over prediction: 1-1Anton's prediction: United are getting better but they are still not there yet. 1-1 Emirates Stadium, 14:00 GMTIt's a little odd how Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has been adamant for so long that he does not need another striker. Then, all of a sudden, we get to the end of January and they put in an offer for Ollie Watkins at Villa. It all feels a little bit late to me. Why not do it at the start of January? I know they have had a couple of injuries to Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus but I don't understand the delay and it feels a little bit like they are making it up as they go is a huge game for the Gunners - in the past couple of seasons it has been a title decider when they've played Manchester City but this time only Arsenal's title hopes are on the have improved of late but I still look at them and think they are going to concede a goal, as Club Brugge showed on was a great game when these two met earlier in the season and Leandro Trossard was sent off in a 2-2 draw. The readers will probably go for a 1-1 draw this time, I reckon, but I am going to pick a is the Gunners who I see taking this, and I wouldn't be surprised if a set-piece proves crucial. Let's hope City striker Erling Haaland can 'stay humble' if his team do end up being prediction: 2-1Anton's prediction: City looked pretty good against Chelsea last week but they are still not the team they were. Arsenal should still have enough about them defensively to deal with them and they will probably just get a goal from a corner, won't they? 1-0Why Kieran Tierney is Anton's favourite Premier League player: My brother is a big Arsenal fan so I guess I kind of root for them sometimes so he is happy. I think Tierney is probably my favourite Premier League player because he's such a nice guy, and also a Celtic legend. It's just a shame he has had so many injuries because I think people forget he was up there as Arsenal's best player for a while and looked like Arsenal captain material. I hope he comes back to Celtic and if he can stay injury free it would be amazing. Monday, 3 February Stamford Bridge, 20:00 GMTFormer Chelsea manager Graham Potter is back at the Bridge but I don't see it being a happy return for Ham have actually performed well since Potter replaced Julen Lopetegui, and looked lively, but results have still been need a new goalkeeper and probably another centre-forward too if they are going to push on but even with what they have, I still think they will be too strong for West prediction: 2-1Anton's prediction: I have always liked Potter - when he was at Ostersunds in Sweden he got all the players involved in theatre, so I am looking forward to seeing Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus in a play sometime soon. He is a good manager but it might take him a while to get his methods across. 2-1 How did Sutton do last week? Chris got five correct results from the 10 games in week 23, with no exact scores, giving him a total of 50 guest, Back in Action star Jamie Demetriou, got four correct results but with one exact score, giving him 70 was enough to give Demetriou victory, because the BBC Sport readers only managed three correct results, with no exact scores, leaving you on 30 was spot on with one of his other predictions, however. While he was determined to back Bournemouth to beat Nottingham Forest - and was right - he felt you lot were sure to go for a 1-1 draw... and 29% of you did.
