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Metro
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
New Glastonbury map reveals big changes for 2025
The new Glastonbury 2025 map has been revealed, and here are the major changes you need to know about. Sleeping bags, tents and hunter wellies are at the ready as the biggest UK music festival is fast approaching. Ahead of the Worthy Farm festival, the headline acts have been announced with British pop band The 1975, folk rock star Neil Young and US pop singer Olivia Rodrigo all taking major spots in the lineup. The festival has now released the new maps for the festival, which show there are some subtle but important changes that show how the farm is mapped out for the event. The Other Stage capacity has been extended, meaning the crowd capacity will be much larger. Levels, the dance music area in Silver Hayes, which will host Groove Armada this year, has increased. As has the Dragonfly (previously known as Arcadia), the Glade, and Lonely Hearts Club. Camping-wise, there are some shrinking and others growing. Oxylers campsite has halved, South Park 2 has also shrunk as has Pennard Hill, and the indoor stage The Assembly which was introduced just last year. Shangri-La has introduced a new area, Dragon's Tail, which includes a bar. There is also now more public camping space in Pylon Ground, and two new toilet blocks at Park Hill. Glastonbury is set on Worthy Farm with a capacity of 210,000 festival-goers. The festival is around 900 to 1,000 acres, which is pretty massive and difficult to visualise. This is around the equivalent of 500 full-size football pitches, and at it's widest point it's around 1.5miles in length. The entire festival is surrounded by an 8 km perimeter fence. FRIDAY On Friday, headlining the festival is The 1975. Also performing that day is: Loyle Carter, Busta Rhymes, Biffy Clyro, Alanis Morissette, The Blossoms, CMAT, and Fatboy Slim, among many other names. SATURDAY Saturday will see Neil Young headline, with Charli XCX, Raye, Doechii, Ezra Collective, Deftones, Kneecap, Scissor Sisters, and the Kaiser Chiefs also performing. SUNDAY Sunday will see Olivia Rodrigo perform with Rod Stewart in the legends slot. Other acts performing that day include: Noah Kahan, Jorja Smith, The Libertines, Snow Patrol, and The Prodigy. The excitement for the festival is growing with Rod Stewart confirming that he will be joined by a special guest on stage, his former Faces bandmate Ronnie Wood. More Trending He was asked on That Peter Crouch Podcast whether he was in touch with other The Rolling Stones' members and 'other people in music'. Sir Rod replied: 'Not really. Woody (Wood) I do a lot, just recently, because we're going to do Glastonbury together. 'Elton, sometimes, you know, birthdays, but nowhere near how we used to, I think probably because he doesn't drink anymore, and Woody doesn't drink, and I still do. They stay away from me. Bad influence.' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Kneecap axed from lineup of major music festival due to 'police safety concerns' MORE: 'Gutted' Glastonbury glampers who paid £16,500 left ticketless after Yurtel goes bust MORE: 90s icon hints at surprise Glastonbury performance next month
Globe and Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Toronto band Martha and the Muffins at odds with Conservatives over song use
Toronto new-wave band Martha and the Muffins is trying a relatively novel legal strategy to prevent Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre from using its song Echo Beach at rallies in his upcoming by-election campaign. After learning that he and at least one other Conservative candidate used the Juno Award-winning 1980 song at rallies during the spring election cycle, the band's manager took to social media to ask him to stop, but says Poilievre did not respond. Because Mr. Poilievre lost his Ottawa-area riding and plans to run again in an Alberta by-election, Martha and the Muffins is taking steps to prevent him from once again using Echo Beach at events. Crucially, the band is asserting its moral rights to not be associated with Mr. Poilievre's politics, which are at odds with the often left-leaning stances the band takes in song. 'They do not endorse you or the Conservative party in any way, and the false perception that they do causes prejudice to their reputation,' the band's intellectual-property lawyer, Dickinson Wright LLP partner Paul Bain, wrote in a letter to Poilievre this week. Musicians often send legal threats to politicians they don't agree with who use their songs in campaigns without consent, sometimes escalating them into lawsuits. Neil Young and Rihanna are among the many musicians who've tried to stop U.S. President Donald Trump from using their music. Paul Langlois of the Tragically Hip also condemned the federal Conservatives' use of his band's song Fifty Mission Cap at an event in 2023. But the Conservatives' use of the Hip's music, like the party's more recent uses of Echo Beach that Martha and the Muffins's lawyer outlines in his legal letter, highlights a lesser-known tenet of Canadian copyright licensing. It's typical here for venues or event organizers to have licences from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) – and so permission isn't explicitly required from songwriters to use individual licensed songs. As well as disagreeing with the Poilievre's policies more generally, in an interview, Martha and the Muffins members Martha Johnson and Mark Gane decried the Conservative Party's historic treatment of the arts, which saw cuts to supports under former prime minister Stephen Harper. 'Respect for the artist doesn't seem to be there,' Ms. Johnson said. When it came to the party's use of Echo Beach, Mr. Gane said, 'It's not just an affront to us – it's an affront to anybody who makes anything, and has somebody come and take it for their own use.' In the U.S., the performing-rights organization ASCAP allows musicians to opt out of having their songs featured in political campaigns. The blanket licences from SOCAN, a parallel organization in Canada, do not have that same flexibility. 'If Mark had opted out of a political-campaign blanket licence, then no politician would have been able to use that song,' Martha and the Muffins manager Graham Stairs said. In an e-mail, SOCAN's legal counsel Adam Jacobs said: 'We understand the concerns raised by our members about the use of their music in political campaigns. As always, we will explore and consider the most effective ways to protect our members' rights and their musical works.' This is why Martha and the Muffins is taking the relatively untested avenue of asserting their moral rights not to be associated with the Conservatives or its leader. In one oft-cited case in the visual-art world, Toronto's Eaton Centre was found to have violated sculptor Michael Snow's moral rights by tying Christmastime ribbons around the geese he had sculpted for display in the mall. 'While there have been some cases dealing with violations of moral rights of musicians and performers, there is no precedent in the context of use by politicians,' Mr. Bain said in an e-mail. Though this specific kind of music use by politicians has not been tested in court, 'that does not mean that the law is unclear, or that this is some 'out-there' theory, or that artists have no recourse.' The letter points to the Copyright Act's safeguards for 'the author's or performer's right to the integrity of a work or performer's performance,' which can be 'infringed only if the work or the performance is, to the prejudice of its author's or performer's honour or reputation . . . used in association with a product, service, cause or institution.' Moral rights fall outside SOCAN's mandate, Mr. Jacobs said, but he added that they 'may be relevant' in certain situations. 'It would be up to the individual songwriter or performer to assert those rights and meet the legal thresholds for proving an infringement of their moral rights.' A representative for the Conservative Party did not respond to comment requests – nor did Re:Sound, the not-for-profit that administers licences for recording copyrights, which are separate from songwriting copyrights.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
From a free art exhibition by Bob Dylan to 14-day-long Jane Austen festival – these are the best things to do in the UK this summer
Hooray! Summer is (sort of) here. Need something to do that isn't sitting in an almost-not-quite sunny park? Here are some cultural pursuits for this season: from a Nile Rogers gig in Halifax to an exhibition of Bob Dylan 's oil paintings. The concerts Neil Young was supposed to headline Glastonbury this year but, on 1st January, he pulled out because it was a 'corporate turn-off'. Then, 48 hours later, the 79-year-old changed his mind (apparently, there had been 'an error in the information' he'd received) and revealed he would, actually, headline the festival. It sounds like a lot of faff, but who cares: what matters is that the Canadian singer is also playing a show on 11th July in London's Hyde Park. Tickets start at £123, Cat Stevens is supporting, and, unlike Glasto, the experience requires no camping. After that, go to the Piece Hall in Halifax. On 29th August, the Venetian-looking outdoor concert venue is hosting Nile Rogers & CHIC. Tickets start at £55, Good times. The play In 2022, the Australian barrister-turned-playwright Suzie Miller had her first show put on in the West End. It was called Prima Facie and it was a one-woman drama starring Jodie Comer as a lawyer who gets sexually assaulted. It did so well it transferred to Broadway, was filmed and broadcast in cinemas across the country, and, also, got turned into a book. If you missed it, don't worry. This summer, Miller's at the National Theatre with another legal drama starring another Hollywood actress: Rosamund Pike. According to the National's website, Inter Alia, is about a crown court judge whose life is thrown 'completely off balance'. It runs from 10th July to 13th September. Tickets start at £30, The anniversaries If you haven't seen it yet, the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester has an exhibition on JMW Turner until 2nd November. It's in honour of the painter's 250th birthday and has original watercolours plus 71 prints that haven't been seen for more than 100 years. (Entry is free for Manchester locals and £1 for visitors.) And there's another British bigwig who turns 250 this year: Jane Austen. The novelist is being celebrated everywhere. In September, there's a 14-day-long Austen festival in Bath; from 14th June there's an exhibition about Austen's relationship with the seaside in Dorset; and on 16th December – her actual birthday – there's a Thanksgiving Service at her family's chapel in Hampshire. Bonnets at the ready. The film Lincoln Castle was built in 1068 by William the Conqueror, has intact medieval walls, two motes, and is home to one of the four original copies of Magna Carta. Just as importantly, on 16th August, the castle is also hosting a back-to-back cinema screening of Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia Here We Go Again in its gardens. According to the website, fancy dress and singing along are encouraged. Tickets start at £26, The festival Most festivals involve dancing/not showering/wading about in mud – which sounds wonderful, if you're aged between 18-28. If you're not, The Queen's Reading Room Festival might be preferable. The royal-backed literary weekend was started in 2024 and is held in Derbyshire at Chatsworth House (as in Mr Darcy's pile in the film version of Pride and Prejudice). This year's line-up of speakers is excellent and exhaustive: there's Jilly Cooper, Helen Fielding, Sebastian Faulks, Robert Harris, Rupert Everett, Richard Osman, Natasha Brown and lots of others. It runs from 19-20th September and tickets for the day are £20, This year's line-up of speakers at the Queen's Reading Room Festival is excellent and exhaustive The exhibition Bob Dylan has written more than 600 songs, bagged ten Grammys, and is the only musician to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is, also, a good painter. Until 9th July, the Halcyon Gallery in London is displaying 97 of the 83-year-old's oil paintings. Subjects are varied: one shows a man playing guitar, another is a still life of some beans being poured from a can into a pot. It's titled Beans for Breakfast. Everything is for sale and, while the gallery doesn't disclose prices, on the art-selling website Artsy some of Dylan's paintings go for up to £250,000. Thankfully, the exhibition itself is free.
BreakingNews.ie
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Rod Stewart to reunite with Faces band member Ronnie Wood at Glastonbury
Sir Rod Stewart has confirmed he will reunite with his former Faces bandmate Ronnie Wood for his set at Glastonbury Festival. The 80-year-old musician is filling the coveted tea-time legends slot at the music event, which is being headlined by British pop/rock band The 1975, folk rock star Neil Young and US pop singer Olivia Rodrigo. Advertisement Faces, who were known for hits including Stay With Me, formed in 1969 following the split of Small Faces. Bassist Ronnie Lane, keyboard player Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones were joined by Wood on guitar and Stewart on lead vocals. Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones and Rod Stewart arriving at the Brit Awards 2020 (Ian West/PA) Asked if he keeps in touch with The Rolling Stones' members and 'other people in music' while on That Peter Crouch Podcast, Stewart said: 'Not really. Woody (Wood) I do a lot, just recently, because we're going to do Glastonbury together. 'Elton, sometimes, you know, birthdays, but nowhere near how we used to, I think probably because he doesn't drink anymore, and Woody doesn't drink, and I still do. They stay away from me. Bad influence.' Advertisement He also told the podcast: 'I've done it (Glastonbury) before. I did it in 2002 but this is on the legend stage. 'I was only supposed to play for an hour and a quarter, but I've asked them 'Please, another 15 minutes' because I play for over two hours every night and it's nothing, but yeah, looking forward to it.' Faces released four studio albums and toured regularly until 1975, when the band split up and Stewart went on to pursue a solo recording career. Earlier in the week the veteran rockstar was presented with a prestigious lifetime achievement award by five of his children at the American Music Awards (AMAs). Advertisement His best known solo songs include Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?, Every Beat Of My Heart, and Maggie May. In 2024, he promised he would not retire but confirmed his 2025 European and North American shows would bring an end to his 'large-scale world tours', with his next slate to be held at more intimate venues. His latest album, a collaboration with Jools Holland, was released in February 2024 and went to number one on the UK chart.
CBC
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBC
How Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and more disabled artists changed music
From unique guitar chords to sign singing, we explore the innovations of disabled musicians Cripping is a term used by disabled people to reclaim how they see themselves. As Eliza Chandler, an associate professor at TMU's School fo Disability Studies writes,"animated by the experiences of living in a world that does not typically desire us, or even imagine us as cultural participants, disability arts specifically mobilizes a disruptive politic.... the disability arts community doesn't want to be included in an ableist world/culture, we want to create something new. This disruptive politic comes through the word 'crip.'" When it comes to music, an industry that often treats disabled musicians and spectators alike as an afterthought, they've taken matters into their own hands. In a co-production between CBC Music, CBC Creator Network and AccessCBC, composer, performer and comedian James Hamilton takes viewers through the different ways disabled musicians have innovated, or "cripped," music. "Disabled musicians, by simply existing and being artists, can radically change the music world as we know it. This can be in the concert form, musical content, new technologies, or breaking down our definition of what music entails," Hamilton says in the introduction. Two such musicians are Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, who were both disabled by the polio epidemic that swept Canada in the 1950s. After losing some of the mobility in her hands, Mitchell changed the tuning on her guitar to make it easier to play, and simultaneously changed the sound of the chords, leading to her signature "jazzy" guitar sound. Young recorded his 1972 album, Harvest, in a back brace after an accident on his ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains. The restrictive apparatus could have led to his "more mellow and minimalistic style," limiting his ability to play guitar and sing. More recently, ASL rapper Sean Forbes is popularizing sign-rapping with his songs like Watch These Hands, and Toronto-based composer Stephanie Orlando is writing music with neurodivergent listeners in mind. Both are making space for more diverse music audiences. Watch the video above for more insights into the myriad ways people are "cripping music."
