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Bluedot unveils huge lineup for ‘A Weekend In Outer Space’ festival in July

Aiming to bring the Jodrell Bank experience online after the popular festival was cancelled due to coronavirus, 'A Weekend In Outer Space' is free to view and will include music, science talks, culture and family shows.

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Elbow, Orbital and Daniel Avery will all star on the bill for a virtual weekend event hosted by science and music festival Bluedot.

The three-day, intergalactic-style showcase will also feature live performances from Roni Size, BCUC and Ana Matronic’s Deep Space Disco, as well as interviews and panels including Brian Cox, Ann Druyan and Jim al-Khalili.

Musician Tim Burgess will be joined by New Order, Metronomy and Ibibio Sound Machine for album listen-alongs, with immersive ‘journey to outer space’ and ‘return to Earth’ shows hosted by Henge.

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Aiming to take the Jodrell Bank experience online after the popular festival was cancelled due to coronavirus, ‘A Weekend In Outer Space’ is free to view and will include music, science talks, culture and family shows.

The event – which will take off on 24 July and run right through the weekend – is raising money for Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre; the award-winning science centre at the observatory which is currently closed.

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The Discovery Centre is part of The University of Manchester and a registered charity – attracting more 1.3 million visitors since 2011.

Over 85% of its income is generated from admission, gift shop and cafe sales – and fans can support the centre by contributing to the fundraiser online.

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Bluedot 2020 has been postponed to July 2021, with Bjork, Groove Armada and Metronomy confirmed as headliners.

Discover more about ‘A Weekend In Outer Space’ on the official website.

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New Found Glory have announced their first UK tour in eight years, and it’s coming to Manchester

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Pop-punk veterans New Found Glory have just announced their first full UK headline tour in over eight years, and feel free to ‘Kiss Me’ now because they’re coming back to Manchester.

We’re pretty sure we’ve still got a pair of checkerboard Vans that still fit somewhere.

American rock fans of a certain age will be more than familiar with New Found Glory, but for anyone who never had the phase, they’re up there with some of the longest-running pop-punk bands still around.

Having last released music in 2023 with a staggering 12th studio album, they’re still as prolific as they’ve ever been, and they’ll soon be heading back across the pond.

The Florida-formed four-piece first began around Coral Springs in 1997 and have been through plenty of iterations in their nearly three-decade-long career, with five different past members and even more touring musicians (including the likes of Paramore‘s Hayley Williams), but they’re still going strong.

Now consisting of frontman Jordan Pundik, fellow co-founders Ian Grushka (bass) and Chad Gilbert (lead) and Cyrus Bolooki, who has been in place since 2013.

That being said, with all the chopping and changing – not to mention still plenty of work being done in the studio – it’s been a hot minute since they’ve done a transatlantic tour.

However, they had to come back some day, and it turns out that day, at least for Manchester, is coming just next month when they’ll be playing O2 Victoria Warehouse.

You can find their rest of the New Found Glory May 2025 UK dates down below:

Fri, 10 May – 02 Academy, Birmingham
Sat, 11 May – 02 Victoria Warehouse, MCR
Sun, 12 May – 02 City Hall, Newcastle
Tues, 14 – 02 Academy, Glasgow
Wed, 15 – Rock City, Nottingham
Fri, 17 – 02 Academy, Bournemouth
Sat, 18 – 02 Academy Brixton, London

They’ll also be playing this year’s Slam Dunk Festival’s North event in what looks to be another stunning lineup.

Kicking off the UK tour in Birmingham, New Found Glory arrive at Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse on Saturday, 11 May.

With support from fellow rock bands Real Friends and Koyo, general admission tickets go on sale at 10am this Friday, 11 April.

You can get ready to grab yours HERE.

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Original Oasis drummer sends message to band ahead of reunion world tour

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Remember when everyone started wondering why ‘Tony McCarroll’ was trending on social media before suddenly realising they might have cocked up getting an Oasis pre-sale code? Us too, and with just a few months until the band’s reunion tour kicking off, he’s sent a message to the boys.

For most Oasis fans, the idea of an actual comeback was something they’d long dreamt of, but one they had mostly resigned themselves to the fact that it was something that was probably never really going to come true.

Nevertheless, barring a catastrophic bust-up in rehearsals (touch wood), which are already said to have kicked off late last year, it is genuinely happening.

With that in mind, one man who was not only there at the very start of the phenomenon that was Oasis but – for one day, at the very least – was perhaps the most Googled person on the planet, has shared a heartfelt message of support; here’s what Tony McCarroll had to say ahead of a truly massive summer:

Sharing a sentiment that many of us headed into the new year echoing after we’d learned of the Oasis reunion, the 53-year-old began simply saying, “2025 is shaping up alright, isn’t it?!

“Almost a lifetime ago, a few Burnage lads got together and created something special. Something that time can’t out date, the start of a wave that’s evidently still rolling with the last real band before the world changed.

“Oasis captured the time and minds of the people; we were the same as them, and they felt it. The connection. Over the last year or two, I’ve noticed something new in the gig and QnA crowds…. youth. The circle has started again lads. A new generation ready to start a journey of listening.”

The original Oasis drummer, who quit the band in 1995 and was replaced by long-standing replacement Alan White, confessed: “Actually, I’m a bit jealous of that blank canvas they’re about to start on”

“Lads, the world is excited to see this, it’s all people are talking about. The time ‘feels’ right, I can’t wait to see how it all goes down”, he went on to say.

Adressing Liam, Noel, Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs and Gem Archer directly before adding, “I better stop there as I’m not sure who else”, McCarroll wished them the best of luck and reminding them to make sure they “stop and take it in”.

As he touched on, the full band lineup for the Oasis reunion shows is yet to be officially confirmed but we’ve had pretty strong indications as to who we can expect to be returning.

Full band lineup for Oasis reunion reportedly revealed

Last but not least, he went on to quip, “If the drummer fancies a stage partner for ‘Supersonic’ at Heaton Park, give us a buzz” – now what a moment that would be, eh?

“What we started back in The Boardwalk days, has become this. Be proud. I f***** am! Enjoy it”, he signs off. Whether or not he has any regrets that he wasn’t part of the latter decade or so they spent as a bad or not, who knows? Even four years as part of one of the world’s biggest bands is quite something.

One thing that his message has proved for sure is that Tony McCarroll is just as excited to see Oasis come back this summer as every other fan on the planet and, original drummer, Alan White, Zak Starkey or otherwise, just hearing that first roar from the crowd is going to send chills down our collective spines.

For those of you lucky enough to grab tickets, what are you most looking forward to hearing?

The 30 greatest Oasis songs of all time
According to Audio North, anyway.

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