Entertainment

What is your show about? It's a live incarnation of our Radio X show and podcast. Which people should definitely check out other wise the show might be a little baffling! It's not stand-up, though Elis has promised to dust off a very old routine entitled 'Geordie Financial Year'. The mind boggles. We've reworked some of the favourite features from our radio show to perform live and also some special one off's. I used to read aloud from Tony Blackburn's...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  Fatherhood has got me behind on my lists in the last few weeks, so to make up for it here is an extra long one. We’re straight in with weirdness from Chancha Via Circuito and then onto a wicked version of California Dreamin’ from Eddie Hazel. From there we hit the first of our Brazilian tracks (I’m clearly having...

By Nicky Goulder, Co-Founder & Chief Executive, www.createarts.org.uk A new academic year is always a time of excitement, new hope and fresh starts. This year, the first after DCMS celebrated the huge contribution the creative industries make to the UK, you’d expect to see arts departments in schools and universities across the country bounding to work to be greeted by rows upon rows of students on their way to continuing this economic and social success. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. Instead,...

We all know and love the BBC iPlayer function but as with many modern technologies, there has been a loophole in the system that has, up until now, allowed individuals to use the iPlayer without owning a TV license. Most commonly this includes expats living abroad who want to keep up to date with their favourite programmes and under the old rules, you only needed to own a TV license if you watched television live – meaning programmes that were...

Former Saturday Kitchen presenter James Martin is reportedly in talks to replace Chris Evans as the new host of Top Gear. Evans quit Top Gear after the public failed to warm to the new line-up, with the BBC Radio 2 disk jockey backed up by Friend's star Matt Le Blanc and Eddie Jordan amongst others. Now Martin, a self-confessed petrol head, looks to be in talks about taking the reigns. According to the Sunday People, Martin lost out to Evans when...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  As Death Waltz are about to release the Twin Peaks soundtrack on vinyl, this week had to start with Laura Palmer’s Theme (famously sampled by Moby in ‘Go’). Moving through a beautiful track by Black Peaches onto the Mali Music project from genius tinkerer Damon Albarn, we then hit The Glimmers, High Mesakela, The Sorcerers and finish strong with...

Twenty years ago to the day Oasis made history by playing sell-out gigs at Knebworth Park in front of a quarter of a million people. The Brit Pop band were supported by The Charlatans, Kula Shaker, Manic Street Preachers, The Bootleg Beatles, The Chemical Brothers, Ocean Colour Scene and The Prodigy over the two nights, playing in front of 125,000 people per night. Over 2.6 million people applied for tickets for the shows, making it the largest ever demand for concert tickets...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  Normal service resumes this week after the inaugural Guest List last week with Rick Pike from PVT (check it out here if you missed it). Kicking off with some beautiful soundtrack vibes from legendary film composer John Barry, we follow with a Starkey Remix of Einaudi from the ‘In A Time Lapse’ album, the David McCallum that Dr. Dre...

Music festivals have always been places to pick up various ailments, alcohol poisoning, food poisoning, and possibly the odd STI, but there is now been an outbreak of measles at a lot of UK festivals. Public Health England has said that music festivals this summer have become somewhat of a hotbed for measles this year. They have signalled a “significant number” of cases of people picking up the disease while enjoying their favourite music with thousands of other party go-ers....