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Scotsman
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
There was only one concert to be at in Edinburgh on Saturday night and it wasn't Robbie Williams
There was only one concert to be at in Edinburgh on Saturday night and it wasn't Robbie Williams Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... contributed Many famous faces have played Scotland's only five star concert hall since it opened in 1914 including Ella Fitzgerald, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, and Led Zeppelin. But as magnificent as those gigs will have been I'm not sure anything can match what 400 Rock Choir members and their friends and families experienced in the Usher Hall on Saturday night. We're all still buzzing. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad In celebration of her 15 years leading Rock Choir in Scotland Elaine Williamson coached her amateur singers to put on the performance of a lifetime in a beautiful venue, renowned for its excellent acoustics. I mean this was big for us. We're more normally to be found singing for runners at the Edinburgh Marathon, or in John Lewis Glasgow, raising money for the Beatson Institute. You might have seen us on the steps of The Dome at Christmastime. We don't normally have access to a dressing room. For many outdoor performances we store our bags at our feet, like penguins. From the instantly recognisable guitar riff of Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine which opened the show to the infectious 80s film theme to Flashdance (What a Feeling) which was the finale, we rocked, bopped, swayed and clicked our way through a two hour repertoire of Rock Choir's finest tunes. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad With choir members from Kirkintilloch, Glasgow West AM, Glasgow West PM, Edinburgh West Afternoon and Edinburgh Morningside Evening making up the performers, this was classic Rock Choir ambition achieved. Most of us don't read music. We love to sing but we have had no formal training. But we want to do Elaine proud so we rehearse our different harmony parts from soprano, upper alto, lower alto to bass and practise hard. Read more here: I spoke to my favourite member of Pulp and discovered they're Scottish We download the dance moves and work til we get it right. Along the way there is a lot of laughter, new friendships are formed and it's basically pure joy to be involved. See exhibit A - the video of us performing I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith last Saturday. If you missed this gig we're going head to head with another pair of 90s icons when Oasis play Murrayfield next month and we sing on the Fringe. (We have a sense of humour, we're learning a Rock Choir arrangement of Roll With It). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
Scotsman
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
When Rock Choir rocked the Usher Hall
There was only one concert to be at in Edinburgh on Saturday night and it wasn't Robbie Williams Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Many famous faces have played Scotland's only five star concert hall since it opened in 1914 including Ella Fitzgerald, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, and Led Zeppelin. But as magnificent as those gigs will have been I'm not sure anything can match what 400 Rock Choir members and their friends and families experienced in the Usher Hall on Saturday night. We're all still buzzing. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad In celebration of her 15 years leading Rock Choir in Scotland Elaine Williamson coached her amateur singers to put on the performance of a lifetime in a beautiful venue, renowned for its excellent acoustics. I mean this was big for us. We're more normally to be found singing for runners at the Edinburgh Marathon, or in John Lewis Glasgow, raising money for the Beatson Institute. You might have seen us on the steps of The Dome at Christmastime. We don't normally have access to a dressing room. For many outdoor performances we store our bags at our feet, like penguins. From the instantly recognisable guitar riff of Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine which opened the show to the infectious 80s film theme to Flashdance (What a Feeling) which was the finale, we rocked, bopped, swayed and clicked our way through a two hour repertoire of Rock Choir's finest tunes. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad With choir members from Kirkintilloch, Glasgow West AM, Glasgow West PM, Edinburgh West Afternoon and Edinburgh Morningside Evening making up the performers, this was classic Rock Choir ambition achieved. Most of us don't read music. We love to sing but we have had no formal training. But we want to do Elaine proud so we rehearse our different harmony parts from soprano, upper alto, lower alto to bass and practise hard. We download the dance moves and work til we get it right. Along the way there is a lot of laughter, new friendships are formed and it's basically pure joy to be involved. See exhibit A - the video of us performing I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith last Saturday. If you missed this gig we're going head to head with another pair of 90s icons when Oasis play Murrayfield next month and we sing on the Fringe. (We have a sense of humour, we're learning a Rock Choir arrangement of Roll With It). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
T-Mobile's New Experience Plans Offer Unparallelled Value, With a 5-Year Price Guarantee
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. T-Mobile has unveiled a new lineup of wireless rate plans that guarantees more value and more money saved than competitors. More from Variety T-Mobile Plays Down Super Bowl Celebrities, Dials Up Elon Musk's Starlink Technology Bradley Cooper and Mom Return to Super Bowl Ad Roster Jason Momoa Joins Zach Braff and Donald Faison for 'Flashdance' Remix in T-Mobile Super Bowl Ad Their Experience rate plans, launched Wednesday morning, includes two standard options for every type of mobile user. The most premiere plan is Experience Beyond ($170/month), which uses T-Mobile's StarLink mobile network, with the option to upgrade your phone every year and offers money-saving entertainment bundles for Apple TV+, Netflix and Hulu. Meanwhile, their Experience More ($140/month) their most popular plan with the option to upgrade your phone every two years and get entertainment benefits such as Apple TV+ and Netflix subscriptions. These plans offer up to 20% savings compared to similar options from other carriers. Buy Now The best part about T-Mobile's Experience rate plans is that they promise a five-year price guarantee on the plan price you sign up for, meaning you won't be victim to hidden fees and price hikes like many other competitors. You'll be grandfathered into the low price you see today, while also enjoying exclusive entertainment bundles and phone upgrades. Their plans also offer perks on travel, dining, concerts and streaming, adding even more value beyond the mobile space. T-Mobile also knows that it can feel daunting to switch phone plans, especially for families. Their Family Freedom program, which launched earlier this month, makes it easier than ever to switch. In fact, they even incentivize you to switch by offering to pay off your existing phone contract up to $800 per line (up to 4 lines, totaling $3,200).1 Find out more information about T-Mobile's Experience plans here, and sign up below: Buy Now Savings with Experience Plans for 3 lines vs. comparable plans plus streaming. 5-year price guarantee is for talk, text, and data. Exclusions like taxes and fees monthly price of on-network talk, text, & 5G data for accounts activating on an Experience plan. Savings with 3rd line free via mo. bill credits vs. comparable available plans plus optional streaming; plan features and taxes & fees may vary. Credits stop if you cancel any lines. Qualifying new account & credit req'd. See exclusions & details at versus AT&T and Verizon; see how with our Savings Calculator at Savings with 3rd line free via mo. bill credits vs. comparable available plans plus optional streaming; plan features and taxes & fees may vary. Credits stop if you cancel any lines. Qualifying new account & credit req'd ↩︎ Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in April 2025 The Best Celebrity Memoirs to Read This Year: From Chelsea Handler to Anthony Hopkins
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
T-Mobile's New Experience Plans Offer Unparallelled Value, With a 5-Year Price Guarantee
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. T-Mobile has unveiled a new lineup of wireless rate plans that guarantees more value and more money saved than competitors. More from Variety T-Mobile Plays Down Super Bowl Celebrities, Dials Up Elon Musk's Starlink Technology Bradley Cooper and Mom Return to Super Bowl Ad Roster Jason Momoa Joins Zach Braff and Donald Faison for 'Flashdance' Remix in T-Mobile Super Bowl Ad Their Experience rate plans, launched Wednesday morning, includes two standard options for every type of mobile user. The most premiere plan is Experience Beyond ($170/month), which uses T-Mobile's StarLink mobile network, with the option to upgrade your phone every year and offers money-saving entertainment bundles for Apple TV+, Netflix and Hulu. Meanwhile, their Experience More ($140/month) their most popular plan with the option to upgrade your phone every two years and get entertainment benefits such as Apple TV+ and Netflix subscriptions. These plans offer up to 20% savings compared to similar options from other carriers. Buy Now The best part about T-Mobile's Experience rate plans is that they promise a five-year price guarantee on the plan price you sign up for, meaning you won't be victim to hidden fees and price hikes like many other competitors. You'll be grandfathered into the low price you see today, while also enjoying exclusive entertainment bundles and phone upgrades. Their plans also offer perks on travel, dining, concerts and streaming, adding even more value beyond the mobile space. T-Mobile also knows that it can feel daunting to switch phone plans, especially for families. Their Family Freedom program, which launched earlier this month, makes it easier than ever to switch. In fact, they even incentivize you to switch by offering to pay off your existing phone contract up to $800 per line (up to 4 lines, totaling $3,200).1 Find out more information about T-Mobile's Experience plans here, and sign up below: Buy Now Savings with Experience Plans for 3 lines vs. comparable plans plus streaming. 5-year price guarantee is for talk, text, and data. Exclusions like taxes and fees monthly price of on-network talk, text, & 5G data for accounts activating on an Experience plan. Savings with 3rd line free via mo. bill credits vs. comparable available plans plus optional streaming; plan features and taxes & fees may vary. Credits stop if you cancel any lines. Qualifying new account & credit req'd. See exclusions & details at versus AT&T and Verizon; see how with our Savings Calculator at Savings with 3rd line free via mo. bill credits vs. comparable available plans plus optional streaming; plan features and taxes & fees may vary. Credits stop if you cancel any lines. Qualifying new account & credit req'd ↩︎ Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in April 2025 The Best Celebrity Memoirs to Read This Year: From Chelsea Handler to Anthony Hopkins Sign in to access your portfolio
Khaleej Times
25-04-2025
- Business
- Khaleej Times
Reimagining Mall of the Emirates as the UAE shopping centre turns 20
One of my most abiding memories of living in the UAE is of driving up the ramp into the newly opened Mall of the Emirates (MoE) in autumn 2005. Reader, it was a ghost town. As I gazed around at this young pretender to the BurJuman/Wafi retail throne 20 years ago, marvelling at the concept of a ski resort in the desert, I could never have predicted how MoE would evolve, expand and embed itself in the lives of Emiratis and expats alike over the next two decades. Nor, how long it would take me to drive up that same ramp, should I be so shortsighted as to attempt it on a Friday evening in 2025. In the intervening 20 years, bigger, brasher malls have opened, neighbourhood shopping centres have beguiled their way into local communities, and noon has redefined instant gratification with its 15-minute delivery. And yet, through it all, MoE has proven unshakable from its position as the shopping centre that residents head to on the regular. With 40 million visitors in 2024, it might not be the tourist draw of Dubai Mall (footfall 111 million in 2024, making it the most visited place on Earth), but visitors to MoE don't go to see fountains or fireworks; they go to spend in the 545 stores; see movies in the world's largest VOX Cinemas (the reclining seats just about make the chicken jockey scene in the new Minecraft movie bearable); and sip coffee in one of the 96 cafes and restaurants. Most importantly? The car park is easy to navigate. Earlier this month, MoE-owner Majid Al Futtaim announced a Dh5 billion glow-up for its flagship mall, following a 26 per cent growth in the group's lifestyle business in 2024. As part of its expansion, the mall will add around 100 new stores and debut the New Covent Garden cultural area with a 600-seat theatre and the first Pineapple Dance Studios to open outside of London (here's hoping they'll teach the Irene Cara Flashdance routine). Using MoE's THAT Concept Store as an incubator, Majid Al Futtaim has also identified the opportunity to open standalone stores for luxury Italian ready-to-wear brands Eleventy and Corneliani. So, what would I do if I led the MoE makeover? Firstly, I'd tap Australian fashion brands to fill a chunk of those 100 new stores. In terms of price, aesthetic and climate compatibility, the Aussies are all-round box tickers. I'd also like to see more swimwear options; Melissa Odabash recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with the brand's first UAE standalone store in Dubai Mall. How about Hunza G for MoE? Nailing a resale and rental concept would also encourage me to take exit 39 off Sheikh Zayed Road more frequently. While preloved and rental businesses proliferate online, an accessible in-real-life showroom would convert me from interested observer to active participant in the circular economy. The stats agree with me; analytics firm GlobalData says that the worldwide resale apparel market experienced its fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth in 2024 to reach $204.7 billion (Dh752 billion) last year, outperforming the traditional apparel market. The Middle East's resale apparel market is predicted to grow by 11.6 per cent in the five years to 2028, according to GlobalData, 'as the stigma associated with purchasing second-hand goods lessens and awareness of fashion's impact on the planet spreads', the data firm explains. Without Vinted, Depop and eBay active in the region, there is an opportunity for brick-and-mortar malls to bring to life the marketplace buzz of shopping second-hand, right across the pricing spectrum. Shopping aside, the two main factors that keep me out of malls are a lack of natural daylight and the sensory overload of kids' arcades, which combined make me feel like I am in some kind of Vegas time warp. Happily, it looks like mall operators have cottoned onto this. MoE's makeover will include an outdoor food and drinks courtyard, open to the elements in the cooler months and filled with greenery. While I have already learned to avoid mall arcades and instead steer my children to the epic 12-metre climbing wall at MoE's GO Sport, we can now also drive north down Sheikh Zayed Road to City Centre Mirdiff and get physical at Activate. Billed as the world's first active gaming facility, including the TikTok sensation Mega Grid, Majid Al Futtaim-operated Activate combines the dopamine hits of an arcade with the heart-pumping physicality of a workout session. Whether you get your endorphins from fashion finds, or from high-energy in-mall leisure, here's to the next 20 years of MoE.
