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Thursday 30 July, at 11.45pm, on Rai5, Peter Gabriel talks about the genesis of the album “So”, released in 1986, in a documentary directed by George Scott. Considered his most successful work, as well as his most musically accessible, “So” transformed Gabriel from cult artist to international superstar. The album received unanimous acclaim from specialized critics, being praised for its sound and fusion of different genres, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for album of the year. Who knows if it was also the “Collinsmania” that raged in the mid-eighties that pushed Peter Gabriel towards pop. What is certain…
In a touching letter to fans, Carly Simon revealed she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.“Many people wrote to me, politely inquiring about my relative silence, wondering how I was and what I had been doing,” the 83-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee wrote. “The truth is that I have learned to live with Parkinson's disease.”She added: “It took me some time to understand the diagnosis, to accept it and to decide how much I wanted to talk about it publicly. Parkinson's manifests itself differently for everyone and can be unpredictable. Some days I'm so tired I can't…
Faith No More have announced their first live shows in more than a decade, teaming up with System of a Down for a run of co-headlining dates in 2027. READ MORE: Faith No More are back. Here’s why you should care about the wild and witty progenitors of alt-metal Faith No More have been largely inactive for the last decade since the release of their comeback album ‘Sol Invictus’ in 2015. Since then, they played their last live shows in 2016, and have subsequently cancelled various tour plans in the years since – although they did recently tease a live return…
Faith No More have reunited—for real this time, apparently. After a series of ill-omened interviews, Mike Patton and the band have lined up four stadium shows Down Under with System of a Down, their first live dates since 2016. Check out the full itinerary below.Faith No More have been reliably unpredictable since Patton joined as the permanent singer in 1988, launching an erratic and sometimes scandalous classic era that lasted more or less until their first split in 1998. A reunion tour and greatest-hits LP followed in 2009, and the band played on and off for the next decade, releasing…
Fedez has announced the cancellation of the summer tour for health reasons. He did so with a long post published on Instagram, explaining that he had been hospitalized and had to interrupt his live commitments on the advice of the doctors.«My body raised its hand for the umpteenth time and told me “stop”. Now the doctors are also telling me, and that's what I will do”, wrote the rapper, without going into details of the health problem. In the message, however, he recounts the moments of fear experienced during hospitalization: “When you are in hospital waiting for the last blood…
Richard Hawley joined Reverend And The Makers on stage at Tramlines Festival for ‘Silence Is Talking’ – check out footage below. READ MORE: Reverend & The Makers on their charity Christmas single: “The Samaritans helped me, so I should help them” Hawley made a surprise appearance during the Sheffield band’s performance on the Sarah Nulty Main Stage at Sheffield’s Hillsborough Park on Sunday (July 26). During the performance, frontman McClure gave an emotional tribute to his family, telling the crowd: “My name is Jon McClure. The son of the late John McClure Snr., who used to always come to Tramlines, we…
«We have our microphones, but this is yours». When I saw Sick of It All live in Denver in 2001, a couple of years before I moved to New York, it seemed like a revelation to me that a professional band would leave a microphone on the Ogden Theater stage for anyone who wanted to come up and sing along before diving back into the pit. Meanwhile Lou Koller asked everyone present to take care of each other during the mosh pit. I was a metalhead, I had been attending university for a few years and I still knew little…
Sometimes we still discover new bands that, apparently, we should have followed carefully; this is the case of Yeti On Horseback, for example, defined as “the hope for the future of… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Idlewild have announced two new shows to mark their 30th anniversary this winter – check out all the details below. Back in April, the Scottish band hit the road in support of their self-titled 10th studio album, and also played a massive support slot with My Chemical Romance in Glasgow, made an appearance with Embrace at Halifax’s Piece Hall, and played a set at this summer’s Bearded Theory. Now, they’ve announced that they’re set to play more dates this winter. Taking to Instagram, the alt-rock veterans looked back to January 1996, “when Idlewild first took to the stage at the…
In a heartfelt letter to fans, Carly Simon has revealed she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing,” the 83-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee wrote. “The truth is, I’ve been learning how to live with Parkinson’s disease.” She added: “It has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it, and to decide how much I wanted to say about it publicly. Parkinson’s is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable. Some…
