Today, Trippie Redd the multi-platinum-selling, Billboard chart-topping artist announces his highly anticipated 2024 tour dates across the UK and Europe this summer. The tour kicks off on Friday, June 28 at 02 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester with stops across the continent in London, Tilburg, and Paris before wrapping up on Wednesday, July 10 in Milan. General on-sale tickets will be available on Friday 16th February at 10 AM local time at LiveNation.co.uk.
Renowned for being one of the most versatile and creatively daring recording artists around, Trippie Redd’s music blends wild experimentation with a broad audience appeal. A self-professed workaholic who’s now debuted five consecutive projects in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 charts — Trippie got his start as a teenager “living in a basement with roaches recording music,” as he tells it. Born Michael Lamar White IV and raised in Canton, Ohio, he grew up on hip-hop icons like Tupac Shakur, Nas, and Jay-Z, but later became fascinated with the shock-rock of Slipknot, Rob Zombie, and fellow Canton native Marilyn Manson.
In a matter of days, the BAFTA Awards will descend on one of the UK’s most prestigious arts venues – the Royal Albert Hall. The annual celebration an acknowledgment of Britain’s finest filmmakers and their undeniable storytelling skillset at both a televisual and filmic level. With a total of 25 categories in all, the nation’s emerging, as well as high profile stars will don the red carpet in anticipation of the evening’s results, and overall, in appreciation of art and how art is expressed. Multi-award winning writer and director Yasmin Afifi is one of this year’s finalists, having been acknowledged for her profound watch Jellyfish and Lobster – a tale of grief told from the eyes of two terminally ill patients faced with this existential reality. Ahead of the ceremony on Sunday 18th February, Yasmin tells us more about exploring this heartfelt narrative further, working alongside a devoted creative team to realise the film and what she’d like for viewers to take away from the film.
International singer-songwriter/rapper, The Kid Laroi, has announced The First Time tour in Europe and the UK, supporting his latest album, The First Time (Columbia). The 12-date headline stretch, produced by Live Nation, kicks off on Thursday 4 April at Stockholm’s Annexet, before heading to Norway, Denmark, Poland, Netherlands, Ireland, UK, Germany, France, before closing the tour in Italy at Fabrique on Saturday 27 April 2024.
At a ceremony tonight at The London Palladium hosted by Bonnie Langford and Melanie La Barrie, the winners of the 24th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards were announced – the only major theatre awards decided entirely by the theatregoers themselves.
London/New York (6 February 2024) The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize today announces ten finalists for the prestigious playwriting award – the largest and oldest playwriting award recognizing women+ writers for plays of outstanding quality written for the English-speaking theatre.
Hot on the heels of a sold-out North American tour, get ready for the return of the music force that is Akon to venues across the UK and Europe for the first time in 10 years, as the superstar announces The Superfan Tour for 2024.