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RTÉ News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
On This Week: Garth Brooks serenades fans and history made for Irish women's soccer
On This Week: Irish Moments from History (12th - 18th May) Welcome to On This Week, where we delve into the standout stories from the years gone by, featuring standout news stories, major sporting events, and pop culture highlights that helped shape Irish life. Here's your dose of Irish nostalgia from 12th - 18th May. This Week In Irish News Ardmore Film Studios was officially opened by Seán Lemass, Minister for Industry and Commerce, who described it as a significant development for the Irish film industry. Since it opened, it's been the base for over 100 films and many successful Irish and international productions such as Braveheart, My Left Foot and Veronica Guerin. 2017: Rare giant squid caught off Dingle An extremely rare giant squid, measuring nearly six metres long, was landed off the coast of Dingle, Co Kerry. The 5.8m (19') squid was caught by the crew of the fishing vessel Cú na Mara during a trawl on the Porcupine Bank, 120 miles west of Dingle. This marked the sixth time said specimens have been recorded since records began almost 350 years ago. This Week In Irish Sports The Republic Of Ireland's women's national team played their first international match, an away game against Wales in Stebonheath Park, Llanelli. The game ended with a 2-3 win for the Irish thanks to a Paula Gorham hat-trick. The team would also play Northern Ireland and France later that year. 2008: Scott Evans becomes first Irish male badminton player to qualify for Olympics Scott Evans became the first Irish male badminton player to qualify for the Olympic Games. It was confirmed he had qualified for Beijing because of his world ranking of 43. The Beijing Olympics would take place later that year in August 2008, and Evans would later compete in London 2012 and Rio 2016. This Week In Irish Entertainment 1997: Garth Brooks serenades fans in Bray Country music fans in Bray, Co Wicklow, got a special treat when Garth Brooks performed 'Friends In Low Places' for them from the roof of his minibus. During the song, the crowd joined in and sang along. Brooks sold out five consecutive concerts in Croke Park that year, and it was one of the largest concerts ever staged in the country. 2022: Fair City hits the 5,000th episode mark Fair City reached a milestone when it broadcast its 5,000th episode on RTÉ One. The episode featured dramatic scenes where the much-loved character Nora Keogh was knocked down in an incident at Molloy's Car Garage. The soap began 33 years earlier, in 1989, and has been a permanent fixture on Irish television. This Week In Irish Culture 2020: Áine Ní Ghlinn named as Laureate na nÓg Irish language author Áine Ní Ghlinn became the sixth Laureate na nÓg, Ireland's Children's Literature Laureate. She was the first author who wrote exclusively in Irish to be awarded the honour, and she will hold the title from now until 2022. What was Number 1 in Ireland This Week? 1970: 'All Kinds of Everything' by Dana The first Irish singer to win the Eurovision in Amsterdam 1970, Dana's song became an international hit. 1983: 'True' by Spandau Ballet The title track from the band's third studio album, True reached number one in several countries, including the US, where it became their first song to reach the Billboard Hot 100. 1990: 'Give It A Lash Jack' by Liam Harrison and the GOAL Celebrities As the Republic Of Ireland soccer team headed to the World Cup finals in Italy, The Gay Byrne Radio show ran a competition to find an anthem with 'Give it a Lash Jack' winning. Irish Celebrities Celebrating Birthdays This Week Domhnall Gleeson (42) Actor who appeared in About Time, Ex Machina, and The Revenant. Enya (64) Singer and composer who is the best-selling Irish solo artist Pierce Brosnan (72) Actor who is best known for playing James Bond in four films, including Goldeneye. Other Irish Trivia From This Week 1968: The time the King of Belgium played hurling On a visit to Ireland in 1968, King Baudouin of Belgium was encouraged to try out the game of hurling. He tried out the game at Áras an Uachtaráin, while instructed by Taoiseach Jack Lynch, who was a five-time All-Ireland Hurling Championship winner. For dignitaries visiting Ireland, it's a tradition for them to plant a tree on the premises, a tradition going back to the 1850s. Looking Ahead Each Monday, On This Week will bring you a mix of stories from the last 75 years, to celebrate Volkswagen's 75 year anniversary, featuring the big news stories, sporting highlights and major pop culture moments. Volkswagen has been part of those unforgettable moments - driving families to milestones, memories, and moments that matter. Join us every week as we look back at the moments of yesteryear.
News18
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Metallica Show In Virginia University Shakes The Earth: Concerts In History That Caused Earthquakes
Last Updated: Metallica fans recently triggered an earthquake, but there have been other instances where crowds have caused similar seismic effects, simply by showing their enthusiasm. We're off to never-never land! Concerts have often seen fans creating an unforgettable atmosphere, but sometimes the crowd's energy is so intense that it causes an earthquake. Metallica fans recently made headlines by triggering seismic activity during their Virginia Tech stadium performance. The ground shook as fans jumped up and down while the band played one of their most famous tracks, Enter Sandman. The excitement of fans registered a small earthquake. It isn't the first time music lovers have shaken the earth; there have been other instances where crowds have caused similar seismic effects simply by showing their enthusiasm. Let's look at some of the most memorable concerts that triggered an earthquake. When Taylor Swift brought her Eras Tour to Seattle in July 2023, Swifties created seismic activity similar to a 2.3-magnitude earthquake, according to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach. During the time, many compared the shake to the Beast Quake in 2011, when Seattle Seahawks fans jumped and cheered after a big touchdown by player Marshawn 'Beast Mode' Lynch at the same stadium, where Swift performed. The singer also felt the crowd's energy and later thanked them in a post on Instagram. Travis Scott In August 2023, a Travis Scott concert at the historic Circus Maximus in Rome caused a small earthquake. The tremors were so strong that Italy's fire services got many calls from worried people who thought it was a real earthquake. However, it was just the energy from the excited crowd. Giovanni Diaferia, a seismologist from the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, said the shaking was close to 1.3 magnitude, which was even recorded by a seismic station 9 kilometres away. Garth Brooks Shortly after Garth Brooks began his show at Louisiana State University, the crowd got wild. When he sang Callin' Baton Rouge, the energy became so intense that the ground started shaking. A seismograph set up by an LSU professor recorded the small earthquake caused by the crowd's excitement. The noise decibels reached over 95, and it even triggered noise alerts on people's smart devices. Bruce Springsteen and E Street Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band performed at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium in May 2016. The excitement caused tremors, which caught the attention of Jordi Diaz, the scientific director at the Seismic Laboratory of the Institute of Earth Science Jaume Almera. A broadband seismometer recorded the fans' enthusiasm during Springsteen's songs and showed a sharp increase in seismic activity, even though the music didn't get louder. The shaking was strong when Springsteen performed the song Shout. AC/DC Australian rock band AC/DC is known for being one of the loudest bands ever. On December 15, 2015, during their Rock or Bust world tour, they performed at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland. The concert was so loud that it reached 103 decibels and was heard 6.4 km away. Seismographs even picked up ground vibrations caused by the sound system and the movement of the excited crowd. First Published: May 10, 2025, 11:29 IST
Fox News
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Garth Brooks found Nashville 'gutted' after returning to country music after 14-year retirement
In 2014, when Garth Brooks made the decision to return to country music after leaving the industry for 14 years to raise his children, he found a remarkably different world than the one he'd known. The singer-songwriter announced his retirement in 2000 when he was at the top of his game, having released mega-hits like "Friends in Low Places" and "The River" during the '90s. After several years out of the spotlight spent taking care of his three daughters in his home state of Oklahoma, Brooks moved to Nashville after his youngest child made the decision to attend Belmont University in the city. When he arrived, he found that Music City had turned into a "gutted town." As Brooks wrote in his new book, "The Anthology Part V," after he and his wife, fellow country superstar Trisha Yearwood, made the move back to Nashville, "I saw that we'd lost over 80 percent of our songwriters. They were gone." He continued, "It was a gutted town when it came to songwriters. And, I'm sorry, try and feed the world without farmers. The songwriters? They're the farmers that feed music, and they were gone. So you kind of said, okay, you're getting back into this thing. But there's a lot I am not happy about that's happened in the last fourteen years. … It created a mood. Things got darker." "As much as I love songwriting, and as much as I love the publishers that independently push their songs, what's happened to the songwriter is technology." Brooks touched on the same topic again in another portion of the book, once again saying that Nashville had been "gutted" when he returned from Oklahoma. He wrote that he'd seen before "how songwriters made a living and how dreams come true," but in 2014, all he could see "was all we had lost." Later in the book, when discussing his comeback album and its title track, "Man Against Machine," Brooks explained more about what had changed in the 14 years he'd been gone: technology. "As much as I love songwriting, and as much as I love the publishers that independently push their songs, what's happened to the songwriter is technology," the singer-songwriter explained. "For fourteen years I watched from the sidelines as music fell a victim to technology." "The iPod comes out, which leads to the smartphone. And music made the mistake of backing down to technology, because the threat that technology made to music was this: 'If you're not going to play our game, then all the iPods and smartphones will be filled with illegally downloaded stuff. And there's nothing we can do about that.'" He added, "Music blinked, and bam!, they let technology price their product. And all I can say is, can you believe 'Hotel California' is worth only 99 cents? … We understood that technology was taking over music, would eventually choke and damn near kill music while the technology prospered." Brooks struggled with navigating the change in the music industry as he also dealt with all the changes in his personal life — the move from Oklahoma to Tennessee and his last child leaving home (he admitted that "the empty nest hit me a lot harder than I ever dreamed it would") — but he said that the idea of streaming music "might have been the hardest to get my head around." Coming from a time when fans had to buy physical copies of albums and singles and entering into a new era when so much was focused on digital products was something that he admitted he "wasn't seeing a way through." To combat the issues he saw with digital music, Brooks launched GhostTunes in September 2014, his own digital music store, with the intent of giving a greater portion of money from the sales of the music to songwriters and artists. In 2017, GhostTunes was absorbed into Amazon Music, but as he wrote in "The Anthology Part V," he doesn't consider it a failed business venture. "Anybody that calls GhostTunes a mistake can't see the writing on the wall, that technology is f---ing music over. The genie is so far out of the bottle at this point. I never want to offend anyone. With that said, my opinion is technology has no love for art. None whatsoever. It just has a love for something that can sell its hardware and software," he explained. Also in September 2014, Brooks kicked off The Garth Brooks World Tour — his first since his previous world tour wrapped in 1998. He recalled being "scared s---less that no one would show up" when he first announced new concerts, and when a ticket queue was set up for the first show, which took place in Chicago, he told his team that he'd be happy to see 100,000 people waiting online to buy tickets. By the time the tickets went on sale, there were over 300,000 in line. Brooks added shows to meet the demand, eventually performing 11 concerts in Chicago alone. As for the decision to kick off the tour in the city, Marci Braun, a program director for US99, a Chicago radio station that helped promote the tour, explained, "Put Garth's first comeback show in Nashville, and it's a country story. Put it in Oklahoma, it's a Garth story. Put it in Chicago? It's an American story." In the end, the comeback tour went on for three years, concluding with seven Nashville shows in December 2017. Randy Bernard, one of Brooks' managers, said, "Garth came back bigger than when he left. It made a difference for country music as a whole, just like what he did in the '90s made a difference. … There was no one in the world doing the numbers he was doing." In 2016, Brooks won the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award — something he'd won four times before in the '90s, but that he pushed for in 2016 for the sake of his band and crew, who he said "were doing something nobody had done before. They were killing it. I mean killing it. Three-hundred-ninenty-one shows in something like seventy-two cities. It was absolutely nuts." Brooks won the award again in 2017 and 2019. In 2020, he announced that he no longer wanted to be considered for the honor. Brooks believes that, being an entertainer, the work he and his team did during that lengthy comeback tour is what ultimately made his return to music such a big success story. "The one thing that no one can take away, that nobody rules but you, is live," he shared. "The live show, that's when it's just you and the people that determine whether your stuff is a success or a failure. … It's about passion. It's all on the line every time. You're just going straight to the people." Brooks continued: "Live music was there before radio, before records, probably goes back further than any of us might even believe. One person throwing down a melody and rhythm for another: I'm guessing that if there was love — and surely if there was sex! — there had to have been music. Something like the age of streaming will never be powerful enough to take that away. Live music will win every time. When I think about this, really think about it, I stop worrying about the future of the music business."
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Doo Wop Project to perform at Gloria Theatre
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Gloria Theatre in Urbana has announced it will host an upcoming performance by the Doo Wop Project. The Doo Wop Project has group members from Broadway shows like Hairspray, Jersey Boys, Beautiful and Motown. They preform both classic and contemporary doo wop songs. The performance will be on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. It is a part of the theater's 'Stars on Stage,' live event series. Weaving the classic music of The Flamingos, The Miracles, and The Four Seasons with modern top artists Maroon 5, Garth Brooks and Adele, the performance offers something for people of all ages. Urbana's Gloria Theatre is 121 years old. It is operated by the GrandWorks Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring and reviving the community. Tickets range from $32 to $52 and can be purchased here. For more information, call the box office at 937-653-4853. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Opry 100: How to watch live celebration Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire and many more
Opry 100: How to watch live celebration Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire and many more Show Caption Hide Caption Beyonce says she wasn't 'welcomed' in country music before Beyoncé revealed that the inspiration for her 'Cowboy Carter' album came from an experience where she felt unwelcome. unbranded - Entertainment As the Grand Ole Opry turns 100, the famed radio show and performance venue has embarked on a yearlong centennial birthday celebration, kicking off with a massive, three-hour live show. On Wednesday, NBC will air live "Opry 100: A Live Celebration" featuring performances from a number of A-list artists including Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood. Hosted by Blake Shelton, the show promises to be a big night as the Opry welcomes home a number of its most famed members. Performances will take place both at the Grand Ole Opry House and Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium, the collective's former home. Here's a rundown on who's performing, and how to watch. Brad Paisley invites Post Malone to perform at Grand Ole Opry: 'You and I can jam' How can I watch or stream 'Opry 100' live? The three-hour live show will be broadcast Wednesday on NBC and simulcast on Peacock beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Who is performing at the 'Opry 100' live special? A who's who of country music's finest, Wednesday's special will feature performances from current headliners and architects of the genre. Full performances are expected from: In addition to the full performances, several stars are slated for special appearances, perhaps guest features on songs or presentations of digital content. Special appearances will include: What is the Grand Ole Opry? Founded in Nashville in 1925, the Opry is the longest-running live broadcast show in the world. Each week, the venue hosts three to seven live shows featuring some of country music's hottest stars along with hitmakers from adjacent genres. Wednesday's live show is set to honor that rich tradition with iconic collaborations, reflections on legendary Opry moments and exclusive digital content that honors the artists, fans and songs that define country music. Contributing: Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY
