Social media is praising British songstress Adele after she stook up for a fan being ‘harassed’ by security at a recent show in Las Vegas.
Having extended her residency at the legendary Caesars Palace in Las Vegas until November, the multi-award-winning artist has been hosting sellout crowds for nearly a year now and when one young fan was continuously approached by staff at the venue, the 35-year-old decided to step in.
As shared in the video posted online, TikTok user @juanp_lastra was having “the best night of [his] life” whilst singing along to the ‘Weekends with Adele’ setlist but was seemingly asked to sit down by another member of the audience for blocking their view.
Things then escalated when multiple members of staff, accompanied by security, approached him and asked him to calm down and retake his seat. It was at this point that Adele herself decided to stop mid-show whilst performing ‘Water Under the Bridge’ and ask what was going on.
@juanp_lastra Adele thank you so much for this breathtaking night and for standing up for me, so that I could live your concert as it should be. I’m also sorry that I didnt respond back to anyrhing you asked me. you started talking to me and I literally stopped breathing. I had been planning to come to this concert for over a year and I finally had the opportunity to come see most beautiful glorious woman this earth has gotten. I still can not wrap my head around the fact that I was in the same room as ADELE, sang every song with her, and she even stopped the show to defend me. I did not expected everyone in my section to be mad at me for having the time of my life and wanting to stand up and sing with her but I honestly did not care at all about what anyone was saying to me I just was in awe with the master piece I was watching with my own eyes. I did not have time for them haters. @Adele Access #adele#weekendswithadele#lasvegas#ceasarspalace🇵🇷♬ original sound – juanp_lastra
As you can see in the now viral clip, Adele asks, “Sorry, what is going on with that young fan down there? He’s been bothered so much since I came on for standing up, what’s going on with him?”
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With the Caesars staff now hesistating but still trying to converse with him, she decides to stop the whole thing situation in its tracks and stand up for the fan: “Why are you all bothering him? Can you leave him alone please?”, she asks before adding, “You can stand up now, don’t worry darling, they won’t bother you again. You enjoy the show.”
There’s been an outpouring of support following the video, with plenty of people leaving comments like, “Love that Adele stood up for you living your best life!!! Dance any chance you can get!!” and “Why do people come to concerts to sit and be boring!?!? I will never understand!! Sing your heart out king!”
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While some have argued that they understand why some people complained, remarking, “I will say the selfie stick the entire time would’ve driven me crazy”, pretty much everyone was in agreeance that there is absolutely no problem with singing your heart out at a gig. Preach.
Writing in the caption of the video, Juan said: “Adele thank you so much for this breathtaking night and for standing up for me, so that I could live your concert as it should be. I’m also sorry that I didnt respond back to anything you asked me. you started talking to me and I literally stopped breathing.”
As he goes on to explain, “I had been planning to come to this concert for over a year and I finally had the opportunity to come see most beautiful glorious woman this earth has gotten. I still can not wrap my head around the fact that I was in the same room as ADELE, sang every song with her, and she even stopped the show to defend me.
“I did not expected everyone in my section to be mad at me for having the time of my life and wanting to stand up and sing with her but I honestly did not care at all about what anyone was saying to me I just was in awe with the master piece I was watching with my own eyes. I did not have time for them haters.”
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Adele’s management even responded to the video directly, simply writing: “Thank you for coming and showing us all how to live our absolute best lives!”
Featured Image — @juanp_lastra (via TikTok)/Adele/Camila Rossi (via Instagram)
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UK’s first music therapy project for dementia patients to roll out across Greater Manchester
Emily Sergeant
A UK-first £1 million music therapy project is being rolled out to provide a “lifeline” for people with dementia in our region.
Thanks to generous funding from a number of regional and national sources, Greater Manchester is to become the first ‘Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia’ in the UK, and it’ll be hosted by Manchester Camerata with support from the University of Manchester (UoM) and the Alzheimer’s Society.
More than £1 million of funding has been committed by Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, Sir Richard Lees, who is now the Chair of the NHS Greater Manchester, and the National Academy for Social Prescribing’s ‘Power of Music Fund’.
Due to be rolled-out from October 2024, the funding will support three years of direct musical support activities across all of the region’s 10 boroughs.
For the three-year project, Manchester Camerata will work in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society and UoM to offer “research-backed” music cafes, for both its ‘Music in Mind’ programme and the Alzheimer’s Society’s ‘Singing for the Brain’ scheme.
It’s hoped this will “help take pressure off frontline health and care staff” in the NHS.
Manchester Camerata’s internationally-renowned ‘Music in Mind’ programme – created in collaboration with UoM – uses the principles of music therapy to improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia, and was devised from the foundations of some of the world’s leading dementia experts and their research.
The Alzheimer’s Society’s ‘Singing for the Brain’ programme is based on key music therapy principles, and has already been massively successful in bringing people living with dementia together to sing a variety of songs they know and love in a fun and friendly environment – with sessions also including vocal exercises that help improve brain activity and wellbeing.
The sessions also create an opportunity for people living with dementia and their carers to socialise with others, and experience peer support too.
Manchester Camerata and the Alzheimer’s Society will recruit a workforce of 300 volunteers over the next three years and train them to deliver the ‘Music Cafes’, which will help support thousands of people living with dementia in Greater Manchester.
In addition to the Centre of Excellence in Greater Manchester, the National Academy for Social Prescribing’s ‘Power of Music Fund’ is also awarding small grants to 70 grassroots music and dementia projects across the UK, and this will support more than 5,500 people in total.
We are genuinely delighted by this news.👇🏻
We are proud of all our partners, particularly @MancCamerata, who helped bring it about.
We are a music city-region and will now work to unlock its full power for the benefit of our residents with dementia. 🙏🏻 https://t.co/1Xoeyf4ykN
Mayor Andy Burnham called said the project is “fantastic news for Greater Manchester”, and called it a “reminder of the power of music to shape our lives and our communities”.
He continued: “Manchester Camerata have played a key role in our Music Commission, and I’ve seen first-hand the transformational impact of what they do in our city region, so they are the ideal partner to pioneer the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia and work with the Alzheimer’s Society to unlock the potential of music as therapy.
“This project will provide life-changing support to people with dementia and their carers in our 10 boroughs.
“It will also generate groundbreaking research that will influence health and care policy across the country while directly improving lives across Greater Manchester”.
Featured Image – Manchester Camerata
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Lead singer of Aussie band blasts mystery Manc café for rude and ‘aggressive’ treatment by staff member
Danny Jones
The lead singer of Australian indie and alternative band, The Buoys, has come out to criticise a mystery Manchester café after receiving rude and ‘aggressive’ treatment from a member of staff.
Lead vocalist and rhythm guitar player, Zoe Catterall, hopped on the band’s TikTok account to vent and indirectly inform others about the as-yet-unnamed coffee shop ahead of the group’s show at Gorilla in the city centre this week.
Noting that much of her family originates from Manchester and she usually gets “excited” by the “sense of home” away from home whenever she comes here on tour, her visit this time around was sadly marred somewhat by the treatment by one unknown member of staff.
As Catterall details in the video, despite going out of her way to be polite and familiarise herself with a new city centre spot as a tourist, she was unfortunately met by the purportedly blunt female worker, who “rolled her eyes” at a simple question and a general rude demeanour. Here’s how she says it went down:
Admitting she “was not expecting the response that I got”, she goes on to detail the woman finger-pointing and exhibiting just a generally rude tone.
Initially suspecting that she might be holding up a queue or irking the staff in some other way, she eventually goes on to describe her behaviour as “being an arsehole for no reason” and reiterating that you “don’t have to be that mean”.
Adding that she was welling up and feeling overwhelmed by the whole incident after a jet-lagged morning without any breakfast or caffeine in her system yet, she eventually felt so uncomfortable that she decided to grab her coffee and go decompress elsewhere.
Moreover, after explaining that she ended up going on to the café’s Google reviews out of curiosity, it turned out that the Manchester spot had racked up quite a few people who also had negative experiences and rude or ‘aggressive’ treatment by staff.
We’re not going to join in on the speculation but the comments have some ideas.
To Zoe and anyone else who may have unfortunately been on the receiving end of this rude individual’s service, we’re sorry you had to put up with that and we assure you it doesn’t represent the majority of Manchester hospitality.
And for those trying to help get to the bottom of who the mystery Manc coffee shop/employee was, we hope it serves as a kick up the backside for whoever it may be and a reminder that it takes virtually nothing to be nice.
All that being said, we can’t think of any better way of helping Zoe and co. shrug it off besides plugging their gig supporting fellow Aussie alt-rockers Vacations at one of our favourite venues on Thursday night.
If you fancy going along you can grab a ticket HERE. Oh, and if you think you know which Manchester café might be, don’t go and be rude to anyone yourself – we’re better than that. We’re sure they’ll come across it themselves soon enough, don’t worry.