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IOL News
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Ed Sheeran concert sets record attendance figures: headlines from back in the day
Shivers' by Ed Sheeran is the best song to sing in the shower with a final shower singing score of 8.87 /10. With a high energy rating of 86/100. 1839 In Humen, Chinese official Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a reason to start the First Opium War. 1899 The great WG Grace plays his last day of Test cricket, aged 50 years and 320 days. 1901 The Staatsmodelskool opens as the Pretoria Boys High School. 1934 Dr Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted. 1935 The French liner SS Normandie sets an Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage. The modern Queen Mary II can do it in 5 days, but usually makes the crossing in 7. 1937 Britain's King Edward VIII marries US divorcee Wallis Simpson after abdicating. 1940 The last British soldiers are evacuated from Dunkirk while French troops allow them to get away by forming a rear guard. 1940 Nazi official Franz Rademacher moots making Madagascar the 'Jewish homeland'. 1946 The first bikini is displayed in Paris. 1962 Air France Flight 007 overshoots the runway and explodes in Paris, killing 130. 1973 A Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, AKA Concordski, disintegrates in mid-air at the Paris Air Show. 14 people died. It is the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. 1984 A military offensive by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar, begins. It will cause more than 5 000 casualties. 2012 The Diamond Jubilee pageant of Britain's Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames to mark her 60 years on the throne. 2014 Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the Proteas. 2018 A dead whale is found with 7kg of plastic in its stomach on a beach in Thailand. 2019 A Canadian government inquiry finds that the deaths of more than 1 000 indigenous women and girls, who were murdered or went missing and never found, to be 'genocide'. 2019 Jay-Z is the world's first billionaire rapper, says Forbes magazine. 2023 An Ed Sheeran concert sets an attendance record at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The concert pulled in 77 900 people. DAILY NEWS
Leader Live
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
Royston Club to release 'Songs for the Spine' album
After achieving a number 16 chart breakthrough with their debut album, The Royston Club are now targeting far bigger ambitions with the news that they will release their new album 'Songs For The Spine' on August 8. They will launch the album alongside the new single 'Glued To The Bed' and also announce details of their biggest UK headline tour to date, which features their largest London show so far at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. A great debut album will only get you so far. It's what you do next that really counts - and The Royston Club are now excelling on every front. Recent sold-out live shows have demonstrated the growing scale and fervent passion of their devoted following. Vitally, the recent singles 'Shivers' and 'The Patch Where Nothing Grows' also signpost their creative evolution. 'Songs For The Spine' builds on the sonic DNA of their debut, but is bigger, more experimental and more heartfelt too. The album was produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Rachel Chinouriri), who helped the band unlock some of the raw, natural energy that powers their live show. Royston Club guitarist Ben Matthias said: 'All of these songs are about people and places we love. These people and these places are the things that keep you standing through whatever happens. "There's the classic songs about our relationships with our girlfriends, but on the flipside there's even a song about me going home to Wrexham and feeling guilty because I'd forgot that the speed limits had changed in Wales, which shows how long it had been since I'd last been there!' Ben adds: 'With 'Glued To The Bed', I wanted to write about the cynicism towards love that heartbreak can bring, the bittersweet memory of a relationship and the raw aftermath of a breakup. "It's about the push and pull between needing to forget and wanting to hold on to what was lost, about how grief can become your entire atmosphere and distort your sense of self. "Looking back, I see a lot of what I wrote as a defense mechanism after being hurt. I dismiss love as this pretentious, performative thing and in the chorus I sound afraid, pleading for the next relationship not to leave me in the same state.' TOP STORIES TODAY 'Songs For The Spine' is now available to pre-order / pre-save HERE. The album will also be available on standard vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats. UK fans who pre-order the album from the band's official store will receive access to a pre-sale for tour tickets. This will open at 10am BST on Tuesday, May 27th and will remain live until remaining tickets go on general sale from 10am on Thursday, May 29th. 2025 has already seen The Royston Club - completed by Tom Faithfull (vocals/guitar), Dave Tute (bass) and Sam Jones (drums) - play select live shows. A big headline set at Liverpool Sound City; an instantly sold-out underplay at London's Omeara; three rammed low-key homecoming shows in Wrexham; and a set as part of Wrexham FC's celebrations following their promotion to the Championship. Their upcoming tour includes major festival dates across the UK and Europe, and shows as guests to big names The Lathums, Bloc Party and Travis, before their autumn headline tour gets underway. Their 'Songs For The Spine' tracklist is as follows;
