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Edinburgh Live
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh singer Shirley Manson 'doesn't care' if she's cancelled after 'great career'
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Edinburgh singer Shirley Manson has said she 'doesn't care' if she gets cancelled. The 58-year-old artist, who is never shy with her opinions, said she'd 'rather be true to who she is'. This comes after her eighth album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light was released on Friday, May 30. Manson, who lives in LA with her husband, said it was 'heavenly to get away from the madness' as she came to London amid the release of her album. She told NME magazine: "If you cancel me, you cancel me. I've had a f***ing great career. I really don't f***ing care. "If you cancel us, I'll feel guilty that I've messed s**t up for my band, but I'd much rather be true to who I am as a human being, how I was raised by a family I'm very proud of." Sign up for Edinburgh Live newsletters for more headlines straight to your inbox Speaking on her latest album, and the motivations behind it, she said: "I've never really written about love very much. I always think it's been written about by people a thousand more talented than me. "I'm just not a romantic person, really. After my mum died and then Veela [Manson's dog], I realised I had to touch love somewhere, somehow. Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. "I've got an amazing marriage and I love my husband so much, but I also realised that in order to move on through a different passage in my life I had to reach out to find all the different types of love: the world, nature, the ocean, friends, my bandmates, my family. "I want to ignite that love. Like a torch when the world feels dark, I need to find all the hands that I can hold. My go-to is usually indignance, so I realised I had to come at things from a different perspective this time around or I would drown in my own negativity."
AsiaOne
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
Shirley Manson 'doesn't care' if she is cancelled, Entertainment News
Shirley Manson "doesn't care" if she is cancelled, because she's had a "great career". The Garbage frontwoman has never held back with her opinions, and while she would "feel guilty" that she has "messed s**t up" for the band if she was ostracised from society, the star would rather go through life being "true to who I am as a human being". She told NME magazine: "If you cancel me, you cancel me. I've had a f***ing great career. I really don't f***ing care. "If you cancel us, I'll feel guilty that I've messed s**t up for my band, but I'd much rather be true to who I am as a human being, how I was raised by a family I'm very proud of." Garbage recently dropped their eighth studio album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, which features more tunes about love than Manson has ever penned before. She said: "I've never really written about love very much. I always think it's been written about by people a thousand more talented than me. "I'm just not a romantic person, really. After my mum died and then Veela [Manson's dog], I realised I had to touch love somewhere, somehow. "I've got an amazing marriage and I love my husband so much, but I also realised that in order to move on through a different passage in my life I had to reach out to find all the different types of love: The world, nature, the ocean, friends, my bandmates, my family. "I want to ignite that love. Like a torch when the world feels dark, I need to find all the hands that I can hold. My go-to is usually indignance, so I realised I had to come at things from a different perspective this time around or I would drown in my own negativity." The 58-year-old star has hinted she might try to "get even better" at penning songs about love going forwards. Asked about her future, she said: "Maybe I'll get even better at writing about love. "How could I have not allowed this fire to run in parallel to the rest of my life? How could I have been so blind to it? How could I have wilfully not tuned into that force?" [[nid:716798]]
Yahoo
a day ago
- General
- Yahoo
14 People Were Simultaneously Struck by Lightning in 2017 — Why They've Stayed in Touch Nearly 10 Years Later
After 14 people were simultaneously struck by lightning at a music festival in France in 2017, many have stayed in touch The survivors continue to navigate health issues, PTSD and a forever-altered perspective on life "There were no dead bodies because we shared the charge," said a survivor A group of people who were simultaneously struck by lightning at a music festival in France in 2017 have remained close — and agreed to be studied by scientists, according to reports. That year, on Sept. 2, more than a dozen people were injured, two of whom were in serious condition, when they were hit by a lightning strike at Le Vieux Canal music festival in Azerailles in the north-east of the country, Le Monde, the BBC and NME reported. The group, which included children, sought shelter in a festival tent when the violent storm struck. Officials said that those injured were "directly hit by the lightning and suffered burns,' and the rest of the day's events were cancelled, the BBC reported at the time. But that wasn't the end of the story. In a recent feature, Le Monde reported that the 14 people injured by the storm, including some others who weren't hospitalized, formed a group of about 20 people who met in the following months. On Sept. 8, 2018, the adults marked the anniversary by returning to Azerailles to reconnect once more – including Raphaëlle Manceau, 46, and Jocelyne Chapelle, 66. They were the most adversely affected by the strike, according to the outlet. Chapelle was paralyzed and didn't think she'd ever walk again, while Manceau navigated exhaustion and 'unbearable' pain in her head and feet where the current had traveled. In the months after the strike, Manceau struggled with speech and coordination, according to the outlet. Though she was able to regain her speech, she still struggles with extreme fatigue and memory loss. "I've finally accepted that I am not quite myself anymore," she told Le Monde. Despite their separate struggles, the women connected and stayed in contact as they healed. Chapelle, a retired funeral director, now goes on miles-long hikes. "Raphaëlle came to see me a month after the lightning strike and we called each other often," Chapelle told the paper. "We helped each other through the tough times." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The women, who were strangers before the festival, are among a number of survivors of the Azerailles strike who have remained connected as they navigate long-term health issues, post-traumatic stress disorder and an altered perspective on life, Le Monde reported. All of the people who were hit by lightning have agreed to be test subjects so that scientists can learn more about group lightning strikes. By studying the impact of the incredibly rare incident, scientists can note the different effects on individuals, according to Le Monde. A medical resident, Rémi Foussat, dismissed the theory that sharing the charge helped save everyone who was struck, calling it 'too simplistic,' according to the outlet. But Herbert Ernst, a correspondent for L'Est Républicain who was also struck by lightning, is sticking by the idea. "There were no dead bodies," he told Le Monde, "because we shared the charge. Maybe that explanation isn't true, but I don't care – it's what binds us. When we get together, it's hard to explain. It's like being filled up with emotion." Read the original article on People
Perth Now
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jackie Chan thought Michael Cera was a competition winner
Jackie Chan mistook Michael Cera for a competition winner. The martial arts legend was at the BBC Radio 2 studios to promote his new film 'The Karate Kid: Legends', while Michael had been plugging his latest project 'The Phoenician Scheme', and when he heard Jackie was in the building, he couldn't resist the chance to get his photo taken with him, though he admitted the 71-year-old star had no idea who he was. Speaking to NME, Michael explained a photographer told him Jackie was in the building. He added: 'She asked if I knew Jackie Chan, which I don't, so she said 'come meet him'. That was that. 'When I met him though, he was like 'who is this person, what's going on?'. We took a picture but I think he thought I was a competition winner. "He was like, 'OK let's do a picture real quick. Come on.' Not rudely. But I felt like I was invading his little personal time with his team before he goes on the radio. "So I was like, 'What am I doing here?' But everyone was very sweet and I got to meet Jackie.' The 36-year-old actor is a big fan of the Beatles and though he thinks it would be "cool" to meet surviving band members Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr, he'd also find it "weird". He said of the possibility: 'It would be cool but also strange. I don't know what I'd say [if I did meet them]. It would be weird to say anything. They'd be so bored by whatever I had to say, because they've heard it eight billion times from every other person on the planet. It must be hard to be a Beatle.' Michael - who has two sons with wife Nadine - released his debut album 'True That' in 2014 but hasn't released further music since 2017's 'Best I Can' and admitted he simply doesn't have the time to work on any at the moment. He said: 'I haven't really been creating any music recently. 'I play music every day but I have little kids now, so I just don't have time or focus to do anything productive in that way. I hope to again though. "Normally [everything I make] is for a specific project or has a specific intention but it's just my time management [right now].'
Sydney Morning Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Sam Fender doesn't want to be your working-class hero
I've annoyed Sam Fender. I've quoted his own lyrics at him, from TV Dinner, a standout on his new album People Watching – 'Hypothesise a hero's rise and teach them all to then despise/It is our way to make a king, romanticise how they begin/Fetishise their struggling, while all the while they're suffering' – and asked him if he feels his working-class story has been uncomfortably commodified by the industry machine. Suddenly, he's fearing some sort of tabloid ambush. 'I mean… I don't know,' he says. A long silence ensues, then eventually: 'I don't really want to make a f---ing headline about me being like 'oh, I've felt exploited' because I'm happy doing what I'm doing. But I also think… Hang on, give us a second... What's this for anyway? Who do you write for?' In the UK, Fender has been Britpop's chosen son since 2021, when Seventeen Going Under marked his viral breakthrough. A stirring anthem of proletarian disillusionment, the song recalled Fender's youth growing up below the poverty line in the council estates of North Shields, a shipyard town near Newcastle; it also seethed at the struggle his mum, a nurse forced out of work due to fibromyalgia, endured at the hands of bureaucratic indifference ('I see my mother/The DWP see a number' he sang). It led Fender to a prestigious Ivor Novello win for best song, and album of the year nods in the Mercury Prize and Brit Awards. This February, he released the long-awaited follow-up People Watching, which added a War On Drugs-esque chug to Fender's signature Bruce Springsteen-via-The Killers sound, thanks to production from Adam Granduciel (a Fender hero), and the skyward trajectory continued. At home, where he's now the sort of pop star who breaks chart records set by Harry Styles, has Elton John on speed-dial, and can secure celebrities like Andrew Scott and Adolescence star Owen Cooper for his music videos, Fender's also become a de facto spokesman for the working class. In interviews, he gets questions that set him railing against wealth disparity, the left's abandonment of the underclass, and the structures that make a music career inaccessible to anyone not from private-school privilege. He's the sort of pop star who earns glowing write-ups in the NME and the World Socialist Website. Media have christened him 'Geordie Springsteen', a descriptor both illustrative and pejorative depending on who wields it. If uninvited, it's hard to avoid when your songs feature lines like: 'My old man worked on the rail yard/Betting his trade on the electrical bars/It got privatised, the work degraded/In this crumbling empire' (from People Watching 's Crumbling Empire). Three albums in, though, it's become a nuisance to his art. It's perhaps understandable then, that when a writer starts whiffing around his politics in an interview, Fender's haunches go up. Does he get criticism for talking openly about politics? 'I mean, yeah, do you?' Fender replies. Well no, nobody cares about a thing I say, and I have the analytics to prove it. Has he had bad experiences with the press over it? 'O'course I have, all you've gotta do is Google my name and find all the things that look salacious. I could tick them all off for you,' he says. Does he feel pressure to be a voice for the working class? Fender laughs heartily and I've set him off. 'No, I don't… Ah f---, I don't know. Sorry, I guess I'm battling with that myself at the moment,' he says. 'People bandy around these f---ing sayings – 'voice of the working class', 'voice of a generation' – I hear this f---ing shit all the time and it's ridiculous. I'm not f---ing Bob Dylan. I'm not Bruce Springsteen. I'm Sam Fender. All I'm doing is me f---ing songs, writing about my lived experience, the people I know and what's going on in me hometown. It's just a couple of good tunes, that's all and nothing more.' You can sense the frustration of a young artist trapped in a persona foisted upon them. Or, at the very least, the pressure of expectation from a culture craving their next rock 'n' roll saviour. Right now, Fender doesn't want the job. 'Half the songs I've released I can't f---ing stand because I wrote them when I was a kid!' he says. 'They're not 'songs of a generation' and I'm not 'the next Bruce Springsteen'. I'm just a kid – well, a f---ing 31-year-old man – who's writing songs! I just don't feel comfortable when anybody brings in 'working-class hero'. It doesn't have to have that weight. I'm sorry, I'm probably not in the best state to be doing this interview. Probably gonna brutalise us in the print, hey?' Fender's drinking beers in the back of a pub in North London when we Zoom, enjoying some rare downtime between tours and, significantly, off the back of a jaunt to break America that included a slot at Coachella and high-profile press in publications like the Los Angeles Times ('At home he's a hero. Is America next for Sam Fender?' went that headline). 'I want to break America, who doesn't? That's your f---ing life sorted if it works. But I told my manager we need to make sure we're looking after the territories that have supported us so far,' says Fender, whose arena tour hits Australia in November. 'We'll go to America and we'll lose a lot of money, but Australia is blowing up for us right now so of course we're coming to Australia. That's where the fans are, and it's a big amount of people. It's happening there, so let's go.' The States should be simple enough, I tell him. Jump on a tour with, say, Zach Bryan, a simpatico heartland rocker, and hit those endless small towns where fans can't help but empathise with Fender's hard-won story. The people will eat it up. Look at me, I add, talking like I know what I'm on about. 'Sure, maybe you should f---ing manage us,' Fender jibes. In the meantime, he's focused on writing. He's already begun work on album number four, which is, I remind him, traditionally the 'artist's album'. At this point, you take no notes. 'It's funny you say that because I literally said, I am going to make this album and no c---'s gonna f---ing hear it 'til it's done. Once it's done, they can have it and if it sells, it sells. If it doesn't, I don't care.' Loading He's torn between two intriguing angles. 'There's some stuff I've been making that's a little more thrashy, a bit more Replacements. And then some stuff that's really stripped back, just pure folk songs. We'll see what happens. But it's going to be a vinyl with 10 f----ing songs on it and if people like it, then that's wonderful and if they don't, then fine. But it will be what I want.' In the midst of such chaos, this working-class hero has surely earned the right.
