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RTÉ News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Oasis take to the stage at Croke Park
Oasis have taken to the stage at Croke Park for their first Irish performance since 2009, kicking off right on time at 8.15pm. Liam Gallagher appeared in a green Kangol jacket, with Noel in a white shirt, as the band launched into their opening song Hello. The pre-gig mix had set the mood with tracks including Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well, and Luke Kelly's version of The Auld Triangle. Greeting the crowd, Liam shouted: "Dublin City in the area!" He then quipped: "I think I'm a Croke Park virgin! We haven't played here before, have we? All I do know is this is the soberest I've been in Ireland since I was about four or five or something like that! "We missed you, you lunatics!" After they belted out a number of tracks Liam asked the crowd: "Is there anyone here from Mayo, Charlestown?" When the crowd cheered he said: "You're not all from there there's only around five f****** people from there." He then dedicated Roll With It to them. Set list so far: Hello Acquiesce Morning Glory Some Might Say Bring It On Down Cigarettes & Alcohol Fade Away Supersonic Roll With It Talk Tonight Half The World Away D'you Know What I Mean More to follow... Reporting by Alan Corr and Samantha Libreri from Croke Park
New Statesman
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
Russell Brand has lost his voice
Photo by'I'm just sightseeing, I don't want an interview, love,' the middle-aged man in the Kangol baseball cap and hard leather shoes (no socks) tells me. His lonely screams – no less than two minutes earlier – of 'Innocent! Innocent!' made me question the sightseeing defence. I am outside Westminster Magistrates' Court for the first hearing of Russell Brand. There are more press than fans; this man had travelled alone. 'Are you here for Brand?' I ask another man behind me in the queue for security. He sighs, 'Oh is that's what is going on?' I get the sense that big media tussles don't happen here that frequently, but that they are an enormous pain for everyone when they do. Brand's mystical figure – or perhaps just preternatural instinct for press attention – made this an exceptional case. He arrived to a throng of photographers and reporters, and in total silence he walked at a snail's pace to the front door of the court, unsettling and composed, over 6-feet tall with aviator sunglasses, a black shirt buttoned down to this sternum. Last month Brand was charged with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape and two counts of sexual assault in incidents involving four separate women between 1999 and 2005. There was a scrum to get into Court 1, where Brand had these charges and the conditions of his bail read out to him. He sat alone behind a glass screen in the dock, sunglasses in his hands now; his hair is typically long and his expression was still; he really does look a bit like Jesus. The comedian-cum-YouTube preacher has denied the accusations and said he has 'never engaged in non-consensual activity'. Brand has been through a vertiginous personal evolution. Once he was just a regular shock-jock political commentator. He sparred with Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight about bankers, he hosted anti-austerity marches, he endorsed Ed Miliband in 2015, and guest-edited an issue of this magazine. Now, over on his YouTube channel he preaches messianically about the Great Reset, the profiteering military-industrial complex and the lying establishment. He has converted to Christianity – and marked the occasion with a baptism in the Thames. Somewhere in Brand's career he became infected with all the anxieties of the new American right. It seems, more than anything, that all this once-venerated left-wing populist wanted was to be famous. His stint in the foothills of Hollywood (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) angled him towards a new level of stardom. But today he sits alone in court, once the mob of photographers had subsided and the reporters had taken their seats, perhaps more famous than he has ever been. It is strange to witness a man so defined by his voice – a rhythmic cockney accent, the cadence of slam-poetry meeting the content of Spiked magazine – so silent. The 49-year-old only spoke to confirm he understood his bail conditions, and to give his name, date of birth and address. Finally, the most important performance of his life and the self-styled messiah has lost his voice. Brand left with an entourage: an American whom I overheard complain about the English; a small man, kind of like a shrunken Conor McGregor, with a tattooed neck; someone who looked like the TikTok sensation famous for eating large Chinese takeaways, 'Big John'. As Brand walked out of court – this time the police had instilled a better crowd control system: we were pinned up to barriers – he was surrounded by them and his lawyers, not looking much like a preacher any more. He was bundled into a car. All charges have been referred to the Crown Court. The trial continues at the Old Bailey on 30 May. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Related
BBC News
26-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Cleator Kangol factory revamp plans submitted
Plans to convert a derelict hat factory into offices have been Kangol factory in Cleator, west Cumbria, once employed hundreds of people and produced four million hats a year before it closed in Cleator Mills Business Park has now submitted plans to Cumberland Council to refurbish the vacant site, now called The Flax Works, into offices. Kangol started production in the village in 1938 but left 71 years later when production was shifted overseas. The site was established in 1800 as a flax mill, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, and was acquired by Kangol founder Jacques Spreiregen, a Polish First World War became a key supplier of berets to the British armed forces during World War Two. Later the brand found favour with such disparate characters as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, actor Samuel L Jackson, and hip-hop artists of the 1980s and hats are now manufactured in the US and Eastern Europe, while just one mill building and a tower remain on the original refurbishment project's architects said in a report that they would prioritise "preserving and enhancing its historical industrial character while meeting modern functional requirements". Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
USA Today
26-01-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Jalen Hurts arrives in style wearing a Kangol hat to the NFC Championship game
Jalen Hurts is an old soul. The Eagles' 26-year-old quarterback arrived at the NFC Championship in style, wearing an old-school Kangol hat and a sharp, conservative, and stylish pregame outfit. Hurts wore a similar hat before the Eagles faced the Steelers, and the quarterback was 25 of 32 passing for 290 yards and three touchdowns in a win over Pittsburgh.
