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The Sun
11-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Huge rock band announce two massive UK gigs at Wembley Stadium – after US tour sold out ‘in minutes'
LEGENDARY rock band My Chemical Romance have confirmed two massive dates at Wembley Stadium next year. The band – composed of Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Ray Toro and Frank Iero – will be bringing their massive stadium tour to the UK after a sell-out run in the US. 5 5 5 Fans have been desperate to see the band bring their new show over to the UK, with a massive teaser showing the tour's logo emblazoned on the side of the stadium. The band will perform at Wembley Stadium on 10th and 11th July 2026, with tickets going on sale this Friday. The rock group, which first formed in 2001, became a genre-defining group in the emo era with their album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge in 2004. Their iconic status was then cemented with the multi-platinum selling album, The Black Parade, in 2006 – a concept album that followed a man's journey to the afterlife. The band initially split in 2013, but reformed in 2019 for a string of special shows. They officially returned to the road for a new tour earlier this year. 'Long Live: The Black Parade' celebrates the album's 20th anniversary, and features a grand spectacle where lead singer Gerard is depicted as a fascist-style leader. The band will perform the titular album in its entirety – before following it up with a second set of hits from their other four albums. MCR have released four albums to date – 2001 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love; Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge; The Black Parade and finally, Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys in 2010. But on top of that they have released collections of recordings, Conventional Weapons, as well as bonus tracks and specials on their Greatest Hits album. Since that point, each have gone on to work on other projects, with Gerard notably helping create Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, based on a comic book he created by Gabriel Bá. Rhythm guitarist Frank Iero has been on tour as frontman of a string of other bands, while lead guitarist Ray Toro has released his own solo material and joined other groups for album recordings – including Reggie and The Full Effect and Voltaire. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 15th August, and will be available here. 5 5
Yahoo
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ed Sheeran Announces 2026 Australian & New Zealand Loop Tour Dates
Ed Sheeran might still be in the midst of his current run of tour dates, but the English musician is already making big plans for 2026, starting with return visits to Australia and New Zealand. Sheeran announced a new run of tour dates on Tuesday (July 22), with the eleven-show visit to Oceania set to take place from January to March 2026. 'Starting a brand new tour next year called the LOOP tour,' Sheeran wrote on Instagram. 'New stage, new tricks, new set up, new songs and all the classics added in.' More from Billboard Shakira & The Weeknd to Headline 2025 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park The Who Kick Off Farewell Tour in Italy, Perform First Show Since Zak Starkey Sacking Tool Announce First Hawaii Concert in Nearly 15 Years The tour will see the musician performing at stadiums across the New Zealand cities of Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. Sheeran will then head west for Australian stadium dates in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne, before wrapping up with a show at South Australia's Adelaide Oval. The tour comes just shy of two months before the release of Sheeran's eighth album, Play, which is scheduled to arrive on Sept. 12. That release date occurs just days after Sheeran wraps up his current +–=÷× Tour (also dubbed the Mathematics Tour), which closes with three dates in Düsseldorf, Germany – almost three-and-a-half years after he first began the trek. Sheeran's Australian and New Zealand return will mark his first visit to the countries since February and March 2023. That tour also saw Sheeran break attendance records at the Melbourne Cricket Ground where, across two performances, he played to 217,500 fans. The two shows each broke the previous attendance record set by Sheeran collaborator Eminem, who played to 80,708 fans at the venue in 2019. News of the upcoming run of tour dates has been expected for some time, with Sheeran taking to his private Teddy's Vinyl Breakfast Instagram account in May to respond to fans asking about his 2026 plans. 'Oz/NZ top of next year, then Latam, then USA,' Sheeran responded at the time. Ed Sheeran – 2026 New Zealand & Australian Loop Tour Dates Jan. 16 – Go Media Stadium, Auckland, NZJan. 21 – Sky Stadium, Wellington, NZJan. 24 – Apollo Projects Stadium, Christchurch, NZJan. 31 – Optus Stadium, Perth, WAFeb. 13 – Accor Stadium, Sydney, NSWFeb. 14 – Accor Stadium, Sydney, NSWFeb. 20 – Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, QLDFeb. 21 – Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, QLDFeb. 26 – Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, VICFeb. 27 – Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, VICMar. 5 – Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
National Post
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- National Post
Raymond J. de Souza: Memories of Live Aid and a different era
Article content Yet it was as a cultural phenomenon that Live Aid seems from an entirely different era. Would it be possible today to assemble a cast of musicians sufficiently well known across the generations to attract the viewers that Live Aid did in 1985? The stadium show itself no longer has the cultural power it did in the 1980s, when it was a staple of summertime. Article content Taylor Swift's recent tour, concluded in Canada, attracted such attention partly because it was so unusual — a pop star selling out massive stadium after massive stadium. It happens, but not like the 1980s, when Springsteen and Jackson and others packed football stadiums night after night, summer after summer — and it didn't require debt financing for the fans to attend. Article content Perhaps Swift marks a return to popular live music. A new outdoor concert facility — capacity 50,000 — opened on the old Toronto Downsview airport site last month. Coldplay did four shows there, part of their multi-year Music of the Spheres tour that has now sold more tickets than any other tour in history. Article content Article content But Swift and Coldplay are more likely exceptional. Which is a shame, because the joyous exuberance of the stadium tour is not replicable in the privatized music listening environment of the digital world. Article content Article content In 1985 the Sony Walkman was still relatively new, launched only in 1979, and had not yet reached its peak. Still running on audio cassettes, the Walkman was a cultural earthquake, converting music from an ambient communal experience to a singular, even private, one. Article content It was still possible in the early 1990s to walk around a university campus and to hear the current anthems wafting out of open windows; now everyone is wearing earbuds and no one hears each other's music. Something was lost when parents and children — and brothers and sisters — fought over what was on the radio or the home stereo. The first act to play the new Downsview site was Stray Kids. It's a K-pop group I have never heard of. To be fair, I don't know any K-pop groups. To be honest, I had to look up what K-pop is. Article content Article content The stadium and arena tour is not entirely dead. Springsteen is still performing and Elton John's farewell tour went on so long he may still revive it. Article content In 2019, Princeton economist Alan Krueger, chairman of the council of economic advisers under Barack Obama, wrote a fun book called Rockonomics on the music industry. Pre-digital, artists could earn well from sales of recorded music. Streaming killed that off, similar to declining sales in printed media. The big money now is in live concerts. According to Krueger's research, even McCartney, who dominated the world of records with his long list of No. 1 songs, now earns 80 per cent of his income from live concerts. Article content
Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Lana Del Rey responds to negative review of Irish concert
The Video Games hitmaker has received mixed reviews over her stadium tour in the U.K. and Ireland with fans expressing their disappointment with the short set list given the cost of the tickets. Following her show at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin last week, a journalist for The Irish Times questioned whether the "bizarre" show was "value for money' and if Del Rey was better suited to a smaller venue. "Of the 14 songs Del Rey performs, five are from her unreleased new country album and another two are covers," reads the publication's review on Instagram.
Telegraph
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Lana Del Rey is unpredictable and chaotic – in a good way
These days, pop music campaigns tend to be hyper-meticulous, planned down to the last social media post. Not if you're Lana Del Rey. A chronicler of heartland heartache, purveyor of 'sad girl' pop songs furnished with the trappings of 20th-century America, she enjoys some of the biggest streaming numbers in the business, and since her 2011 breakthrough Video Games, she's become a generational songwriting talent. A stadium tour seems appropriate, then, except that she is Lana Del Rey: unpredictable, capricious, a little chaotic. You never know when she will release an album, appear on stage, or leave it. These attributes make her UK tour a fascinating if strange experience. Across a 14-year career, her live appearances in the UK average out to less than once a year, so it's not surprising she has sold out a short stadium run culminating in two nights at Wembley Stadium. In Cardiff, she emerged shyly from a pale blue cottage to a stage festooned with lights, candles, vines, even a lily pond: the lush vegetation of the bayou transplanted to Wales, more fairytale film set than pop show – as you might expect from someone who makes incredibly cinematic music. To her right, five string players performed under an arbour, as if at a wedding. Many of the crowd, so young they would have been in nappies when Video Games came out, wore white dresses. Del Rey, who recently got married to Louisiana alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene, ran to embrace him in the wings after the first song, overcome by emotion, 'They're good tears!' she insisted. 'It's just a long way to come.' This was only her second ever stadium show. A compelling vulnerability remained all night. Del Rey deals in emotional rather than physical energy, and her music doesn't always lend itself to stadium singalongs: particularly when the set-list is preoccupied with country music instead of her usual alt-pop fare. She opened with two tracks from her upcoming 10th album – originally a country music record titled Lasso, now renamed and postponed into obscurity – including recent single Henry, come on, and a cover of Stand By Your Man, dedicated to Dufrene. The audience were here for the hits, for songs that have inspired the shimmering pop of Addison Rae and the southern gothic elegies of Ethel Cain. Del Rey obliged with a scant sprinkle that included Born To Die and Summertime Sadness. Yet, rather disappointingly, two of the tracks you'd be most interested to see her perform – Norman F---ing Rockwell and Arcadia – were instead handed over to her hologram, beamed down from a bedroom window. Nevertheless, the hits nudged the show towards stadium-sized energy, and Del Rey remains a captivating performer. Consider the billowing drama of Chemtrails Over The Country Club, the breathtaking instrumentation on 2023 single Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the strummed immediacy of unreleased song 57.5 (named for her millions of monthly listeners on Spotify), and the final blare of strobe lighting on Ultraviolence that felt like car headlights pulling up to a house. These moments were wrested from a dense, if endearingly ambitious show, stuffed with ghostly holograms, Allen Ginsberg recitals, and confused metaphors about houses burning down – precious detail lost in the vast stadium space. Stadium sets generally demand at least two hours of hits and deep cuts. Instead, after scarcely 90 minutes and a closing cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads, Del Rey danced back into her blue cottage, turning to smile before she shut the door on the stadium and returned to domestic bliss – doing things her way, once again.
