“A couple found guilty of a multi-miMaria Chenery-Woods and her husband Mark Woods
ran TQ Tickets Limited, which used over 100 identities to buy tickets for acts including Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga and re-sell them at inflated prices on secondary ticketing sites such
as Viagogo.llion-pound ticket touting fraud operation have been ordered to pay back £3million within three months, or face jail.
TQ Tickets sold £6.5million worth of gig tickets between 2015 and 2017, but this does not include the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of unsold tickets that trading standards officers found when they raided its offices in Dickleburgh, Norfolk.
Now, a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Leeds Crown Court, told Chenery-Woods
she must pay £995,279 within weeks or face a further four years in jail.
Woods, meanwhile, must pay £2million by April, or face seven years and six months in prison.
Chenery-Woods was sentenced to four years in prison at Leeds Crown Court in May 2024.
Woods received a two-year suspended prison sentence and was ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work. He was also told he must observe an electronically monitored overnight curfew for four months.”
So far, the yearly musical charity event that raises funds for
the Teenage Cancer Trust has been organized 24 times in
the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London.
It was The Who‘s singerRoger Daltrey who was the originator in 2000.
The event helped to raise more than 32 million pounds over the years. Daltrey curated the event until last year. Now at the age of 80 the rock
star has stepped down.
Legendary music weekly NME was founded in 1952 (!!), and is still going strong,
online and twice a year on paper, after all these years. From 1959 on they organized
the NME Poll Winners’ Concerts. An awards event that featured artists voted as most popular by the paper’s readers.
The biggest winners in 1963 were (again) The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
They played at the ‘New Musical Express All Star Concert’ in Wembley, London the
following year, on 26 April.
It’s this time of the year again when music magazines/websites
publish their list of best albums. Let’s have a look at the 2023 ones
of Pitchfork, MOJO, NME, DIY, UNCUT, Kerrang! and SPIN.
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End-of-2022 lists are popping up on music websites and in magazines everywhere.
NME (New Musical Express) is, unquestionably, one of the best music media ever. Their legendary weekly mag was THE bible for many artists/music fans (like me). Unfortunately, slowly but surely the Internet made circulation go drastically down. The last print issue appeared in March 2018.
Their website was launched in 1996 and became
one of the most renowned over the years.
Now back to 2022.
These are the 5 BEST ALBUMS according to NME.
(Full list link below.)
NME: “The band’s spectacular seventh album summarises their story so far:
sharp songwriting, relentless innovation and unbreakable teamwork.”
TUTV: NME is a devoted AM fan from day one. That’s the only reason I can think
of why the staff named this LP the best, while in my book it’s the most boring one of the past 12 months If I want to listen to masterly crooners I’ll pick Nick cave, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Father John Misty and ,yes, Frank Sinatra but definitely not Alex Turner and his. But hey this is not my list. It’s NME’s choice. Have fun with the Monkees.
SINGLE:Body Paint
ALBUM:Stream THE CAR here via SPOTIFY
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NME:“Their debut album feels like a giddy race around a funfair, those pesky
lows batted away with wit and wisecracks like a game of verbal whack-a-mole.”
TUTV: Guitar pop at its catchy, sprightly and funny best.
NME: “On ‘Renaissance’, Beyoncé has added another remarkable record
to her repertoire: this time one to continue leading the charge to bring Black
culture back to the forefront of house music and dance scenes.”
TUTV: Well, eh, to be honest, I only heard the magical single (below)
but not the longplayer. I’m just not an avid R é B fan.
SINGLEBreak My Soul
ALBUM: Stream RENAISSANCE here via SPOTIFY
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NME: “The fight for a better Ireland deserves songs that mirror the depth of
the crisis, and in its endlessly captivating glory, ‘Skinty Fia’ rises triumphantly
to the task.”
TUTV: Rad record. Rad band, on and off stage.
SINGLEI Love You
ALBUM:Stream SKINTY FIA via SPOTIFY
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5. ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ by KENDRICK LAMAR (USA)
NME:“In laying his soul bare, Lamar hopes we realise how
we too can set ourselves free from generational curses.”
