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Scotsman
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Olly Murs' voice gives out at Glasgow Hydro, but support band Blue in slick shape
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Blue, Hydro, Glasgow ★★★ Olly Murs is celebrating 15 Years of Hits on his current tour but sadly only managed around half an hour of said hits in Glasgow before his voice gave out and he announced to a bemused audience that he would need to stop the show in order to preserve what little vocal capacity he still had for his remaining tour dates. Olly Murs | Getty Images for Bauer With Murs pledging 'I'm going to come back', there was some confusion over his intentions, but the house lights went up leaving the capacity crowd to file out into the daylight after only a third of the intended set. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad In a video later posted to Instagram, he offered his audience an apology 'from the bottom of my heart', telling fans he was 'so sorry'. 'I've never done this in 15 years,' he said. 'Most of the time, as singers, you can get through it if your voice is not 100%. 'I walked out tonight thinking my voice is great, maybe felt a little bit run down. But I didn't think I couldn't do the show or I wouldn't have come out otherwise.' Blue | Contributed Special guests Blue, meanwhile, have racked up a quarter of a century in the pop industry and are more man band than boy band these days. 'My knees,' joked Simon Webbe as he tackled some archetypal pseudo-swaggering boy band moves during their opening set – a modest but gratifying affair with the four-piece performing live vocals to backing tracks. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Webbe's joshing aside, the group remained in slick shape. These days, bad boy Lee Ryan confines his excesses to his vocal theatrics, attempting undisciplined runs but otherwise retaining his chops as the band's power singer. Anthony Costa radiates an understated sweeter tone, Duncan James possesses a strong pop voice and Webbe is the safe pair of soul hands.
BBC News
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Black Welsh Music Awards: 'We're launching our own MOBOs'
A new set of awards has been launched to recognise the work of black Welsh artists. The Black Welsh Music Awards aim to become "the Welsh Mobos" – Music of Black Origin Awards – and elevate artists in a variety of genres including Afrobeats, grime and reggae, and will have a category for nominations for a best Welsh language track. Benji Webbe, frontman of reggae metal band Skindred, is the only black Welsh artist to win a Mobo, winning Best Alternative Act in the 2024 awards have been described as "long overdue" by artists and organisers. Webbe said he felt the Mobos, which started in 1996, do not go far enough to celebrate Welsh talent."There should be a Celtic category," he said. He said winning the Mobo led to bigger things for the band, including headlining at Wembley Arena."The prestige of winning the Mobo was lovely. After winning anything it gives you notoriety the world over and it does help you." The Newport artist said he was "very excited" to see the new Black Welsh Music Awards unfold – but added it had to be done right. He said: "Black Welsh music awards will help the community as long as [the organisers] do it well – they need to make sure they do their research to find out who's been grafting without a record deal for the last 20 years. "It has to be about the small guys, not a 'luvvie' event with lots of people patting each other on the back."Everyone nominated needs to be celebrated, not just those who win. Being nominated in the first place is a wonderful thing." Professor Uzo Iwobi CBE, co-founder of the new awards, said the "unique Welsh landscape" of black artists needed to be celebrated."We thought MOBO would filter down to Wales in the form of fringe events, exposure and raising of Welsh artists. That hasn't really happened. So we're growing our own organically," she said. She added that the event is "about representation, celebration and legacy". "Our Wales-based MOBO musicians are making history and we're inviting everyone to be part of it. Our time is now," she said. Singer-songwriter Molara Awen, best known for starring in S4C's Welsh language programme Gogglebocs, said the awards were a "very important initiative" for the music industry in Wales."Black music is as old as the origins of humankind, from the talking drum to the balafon, the kora to the orutu," she said. "We hear much of xylophones, harps and violins, but very little of the instruments which preceded them by centuries."Singer and composer Dionne Bennett said the awards were not just about "accolades" but about supporting black artists in their careers. "It's about building an infrastructure," she first Black Welsh Music Awards will be held in October, with nominations now open.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Mother of 3 concerned about ongoing flooding issues at Roswell apartment
A Roswell mother says she and her neighbors are fighting flooding in their apartments that has been going on for weeks. Monique Webbe said the flooding started in her ground floor unit at the Elliot Roswell Apartments off Holcomb Bridge Road on Feb. 20. 'It was dark brown, and it was just water,' Webbe said. She said the water would stop for a few hours or even a day, but then it started gushing again. She said she and her partner have reached out to the leasing office and maintenance several times with calls and emails. She said management sent a plumber out to her unit twice. She said they snaked the drain and cut holes in her walls to check the source of the water. 'I'm concerned about the openness of the walls, and the broken wood in there, and the fact that there was water sitting in there when they cracked in there,' Webbe said. She said she even had firefighters come out to look at the problem. 'They said they're pretty sure it's septic,' Webbe said. TRENDING STORIES: CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Man committed murder, carjacking, assaults and more – all in 20 minutes Car buyers caught in stolen vehicles, left with debt and nothing to drive Driver killed after car goes across roadway, off retaining wall into back of Norcross townhome She said the quality of the water concerns her because she has three kids under 10 years old, including an 18-month-old. 'She's learning to walk,' Webbe said. 'She's a baby, so she, you know you walk, and then you fall forward.' Webbe said she wants to be more aptly communicated with during this process. 'When we brought up being moved, they said there were no available units to move us to and our options were to be released from our lease or kind of stay here while they do the repair stuff,' Webbe said. However, she said they have nowhere else to go. Channel 2′s Eryn Rogers tried calling and emailing the property management company, Birchstone Residential. She didn't get a response, so she stopped by the leasing office to try to get a number for their media team. The manager told her they wouldn't give her that information. Meanwhile, Webbe and her family are continuing to live with the fear of the flooding starting again. 'It's still ongoing, and any point in time I have to spend any time sucking water out of my carpet because this is not fixed, that's time out of my day…I desperately want them to fix this,' Webbe said. Webbe said after Rogers stopped by the leasing office Monday, they got a call back. Management has scheduled a plumber to come out Friday, but the family will have to be out of their unit for at least 24 hours. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
