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Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Public Enemy and Grateful Dead's Bob Weir return to London after long absence
Rap group Public Enemy and Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir will be returning to London after a long absence to perform at the Royal Albert Hall this summer. Public Enemy, which was founded in Long Island, New York, in the 1980s with Flavor Flav and Chuck D, will perform at the venue near Hyde Park in their first UK performance in more than half a decade. The 'one-night-only' event will be held on June 27 2025, and see the group perform their biggest hits – which have included Fight The Power, Rebel Without A Pause and Don't Believe The Hype. They previously toured in 2019 as the Gods Of Rap along with the Wu-Tang Clan, De La Soul, and DJ Premier. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bobby Weir (@bobweir) Weir is playing his first London show in more than two decades as he heads to the 5,272-capacity Royal Albert Hall to perform with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and his band, the Wolf Bros, on June 21. He will be joined by his Wolf Bros bandmates: Don Was on bass, Jeff Chimenti on piano and Jay Lane on drums. The latter two were also part of his band, Dead And Company. The evening will feature Grateful Dead classics, and Weir's solo catalogue as they perform with a full 68-piece orchestra. This orchestral project debuted in the US in 2022 with a four-night run at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, where the band performed with the National Symphony Orchestra. For their first UK performance in almost a decade, hip-hop legends @PublicEnemyFTP join us for a once in a lifetime evening in June. Priority booking for Friends & Patrons open at 9am on Thu 3 April. General sale starts at 9am on Fri 4 April: — Royal Albert Hall (@RoyalAlbertHall) April 1, 2025 One of Weir's last performances in London was in the early 2000s at the Astoria with his band RatDog. Weir has been honoured as a Kennedy Centre Honours recipient, with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and as an inductee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Grateful Dead became known for its fusion of genres including rock, jazz and folk which contributed to the countercultural generation of the 1960s, and released the songs Uncle John's Band, Casey Jones and Touch Of Grey.
BBC News
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Witness History Africa's stolen Metis children
In 1953, in what was then the Belgian Congo, four-year-old Marie-José Loshi was forcibly removed from her family's village and taken more than 600km away to live in a Catholic institute. The cause of her kidnapping was the colour of her skin. Under Belgium's colonial rule, thousands of mixed-race children were taken from their homes and separated from their families. The state hoped the actions would quash any sense of revolt against the colony. More than 70 years later, Marie-José and four other women took on the former colonial power, seeking justice for themselves and the many other mixed-race children that suffered the same fate. She speaks to Kaine Pieri. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from football in Brazil, the history of the 'Indian Titanic' and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy's Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they've had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America's occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP. (Photo: Marie-José Loshi. Credit: Marie-José Loshi)
