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Aerosmith have rescheduled their upcoming UK and European tour dates to 2022 due to COVID-19.

The legendary band had been hoping to tour in June of this year after their initial 2020 live plans were scrapped due to the worldwide health crisis.

Aerosmith’s forthcoming live dates in the UK and Europe have been pushed back for a second time, with the band now set to complete a series of shows in June and July 2022.

“Due to current conditions and for the safety of our fans, the 2021 European Tour has been rescheduled to 2022,” the band said in an official statement. “Please stay tuned for more information regarding the new dates or contact your point of purchase. All tickets will be valid for new dates.”

The rescheduled jaunt includes three UK dates in London, Manchester and Sheffield – details of which you can see here:

June 22 – The O2, London

June 28 – Manchester Arena, Manchester

July 1 – FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield

The upcoming run follows their ‘Deuces Are Wild’ Las Vegas residency.

The ‘I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing’ rockers last played this side of the pond in 2017, when they headlined Download Festival, in what was then-assumed to be their last-ever UK show.

Meanwhile, guitarist Joe Perry previously said he’d like to record a new album with Aerosmith “when the time is right”.

The 70-year-old musician said he was feeling inspired to make new music with the group – also including Joey Kramer, Brad Whitford, and Tom Hamilton – after his time in the studio with his Hollywood Vampires’ bandmates Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp working on their 2019 LP ‘Rise’.

He said at the time: “I had just finished working on my last solo album [before the new Hollywood Vampires album], so I had been in the studio for the three or four months before we started on the Vampires record.

“So I was already rolling in the studio. It doesn’t take much to get me going — I love to record. So, when the time is right, Aerosmith will come around to do another record.”

Aerosmith’s last studio album was 2012’s ‘Music from Another Dimension!’.

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Daft Punk have confirmed their break-up after a career spanning over 28 years.

The French duo, who are considered to be one of the most influential electronic acts of all time, shared the news in an eight-minute video called ‘Epilogue’ which features footage from their 2006 sci-fi film Electroma.

The video shows them walking in the desert wearing their recognizable space-age helmets and leather jackets.

One of the pair suddenly stops and invites the other to initiate the self-destruct sequence on their suit, before walking off and exploding. The clip then fades to black, followed by a title card that reads the dates “1993-2021.”.

Their longtime publicist Kathryn Frazier has since officially confirmed their split. Their reason for calling it quits is yet to be confirmed.

Daft Punk, comprised of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, have had major success over the years, launching international hits with “One More Time,” “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” and ”Get Lucky” that featured Pharrell Williams.

They first found success with the international hit “Da Funk,” which topped the Billboard dance charts and earned them their first Grammy nomination. A second No. 1 hit and Grammy nomination followed with “Around the World.”

Throughout their career, the duo was nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, winning six of them, including four in 2014. The group won record of the year and best pop duo/group performance for “Get Lucky” and album of the year and best dance/electronica album for their most recent album “Random Access Memories”. They would go on to collaborate with the Weeknd on the 2016 single “Starboy”—Daft Punk’s first Billboard singles chart-topper—as well as a second hit, “I Feel It Coming.”

Their final performance came in 2017, when they joined The Weeknd to perform the latter track at the Grammys.

Queen and Adam Lambert have postponed their UK & European Rhapsody tour and added new dates. Following a sensational run across Asia and Oceania last winter, the band was set to head out on the huge UK and European tour last summer, but the outing was rescheduled to May – July 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

Now the dates have been pushed to 2022 kicking off with two shows at the AO Arena Manchester on May 30 and 31. Also, two extra UK shows at The SSE Hydro, Glasgow on June 2 and 3 have been added.

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, plus singer Adam Lambert, spoke today of the “heartbreak” at having to once again postpone the highly anticipated UK and European dates of their Rhapsody World Tour.

“Under continuing Europe-wide COVID restrictions there’s no possible way the tour can go ahead as planned for this year,” they said. ​“The prospect of again not being able to look forward to performing and getting to experience those wonderful audiences is just heartbreaking.”

They continue: 

​“We wish to make it clear. None of the shows from 2020 and 2021 have been cancelled, just re-arranged due to COVID-19. We really do hope that as many people as possible who were booked for those original dates in 2020 will still be able to join us for the shows.

This time last year, Queen + Adam Lambert were reaching the end of the Rhapsody Tour’s Japan leg and heading out for eleven massive Australia and New Zealand shows. 

“After starting off 2020 with an amazing run of shows playing to audiences of upwards of 50,000 in a single night,” said the band, “the cancellation of the Europe shows that should have followed last summer was a huge disappointment.”

Brian May adds: “Those incredible scenes at those concerts now seem like an impossibly distant dream. One minute we are out in Australia strutting our stuff and interacting with thousands of happy people, next minute we are stuck in the house. We were so lucky to be able to complete that tour, running just ahead of the wave that was about to break on us.” 

“When we do eventually get to play in front of live audiences it will be with a ferociously renewed attack and we shall revel in the wonderful experience of actually interacting with them again,” continues Roger Taylor.

Adam Lambert, meanwhile, says: ​“It’s so disappointing to have to postpone again, but safety comes first, and we look forward to spring 2022 when we will be back, better than ever.”

The postponement of this year’s tour dates is especially disappointing for the band, who were looking forward to playing the shows as part of a significant landmark for Queen. With fifty years now having passed since the 1971 recruiting of John Deacon, completing Queen’s classic line-up, 2021 marks a Queen Golden Jubilee that the band was hoping to celebrate with fans.

Nevertheless, The Show Must Go On – and it will in 2022 when Queen + Adam Lambert return to touring and embark on their next chapter together.

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Queen + Adam Lambert The Rhapsody Tour 2022

Show Date and Time: May 30, 2022 – July 18, 2022

Show Location: Manchester AO Arena, Manchester, UK – Copenhagen Royal Arena, Copenhagen, DK

The Weeknd has announced that he will tour ‘After Hours’ in January 2022. The long-awaited trek was originally supposed to launch in 2020, but was delayed to 2021 due to the pandemic.

The 104-date global tour will kick off on January 14th in Vancouver at Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena with stops in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, Berlin, and more, before wrapping November 16th in London at The O2.

The worldwide tour announcement comes just days after the multi-platinum singer’s headlining Super Bowl performance, and also includes a handful of rescheduled dates shifting from 2021 to be a part of the After Hours World Tour in 2022.

With the addition of 39 new tour dates, The Weeknd has also released “The Highlights” on February 5th, an album that features some of The Weeknd’s most notable works in one place.

After the Super Bowl halftime show on February 7th, streams of The Weeknd’s songs surged 41% in the U.S. according to initial reports to MRC Data.

The collected songs across his entire catalog generated 48.9 million on-demand streams (audio and video) on February 7-8 – up 42% compared to the 34.5 million they tallied on February 5-6.

His most-streamed song on February 7-8 was his long-running Billboard Hot 100 hit “Blinding Lights” (6.54 million; up 42%), which also served as his halftime-closer.

His second-most-streamed tune was “Save Your Tears” (6.19 million; up 23%), which is also his current radio single and most recent top 10 on the Hot 100. Combined, “Blinding” and “Save” accounted for 26% of his total streams on February  7-8.

And the nine songs heard during The Weeknd’s halftime performance collectively earned 23.8 million streams on February 7-8 – up 51% compared to their 15.77 million on February 5-6.

Here’s where you can find The Weeknd tickets for the star’s upcoming tour.

After Hours World Tour 2022

Show Date and Time: January 14, 2022 – November 16, 2022

Show Location: Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC – The O2, London, UK

After performing their first socially distant live shows in their hometown of Oklahoma City last month, the Flaming Lips are bringing more shows that will also feature a band and audience encased in space bubbles. 

Two new gigs were announced, scheduled for March 12 and 13. They are happening at the same venue as the first pair, Oklahoma City’s The Criterion. According to a press release, “local health and safety standards will be strictly observed for this full-production live Lips event.”

The first announcement was followed with this: 

“Due to overwhelming demand, two more Space Bubble Concerts have been added for March 11th and 14th at Criterion OKC in Oklahoma City, OK, USA!”

The Flaming Lips have long performed in a space bubble during concerts. Prior to the live debut of their COVID-safe set-up, they showed their bubbled audience technique during a performance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and in videos for “Brother Eye” and “Assassins of Youth” from their 2020 album “American Head”.

According to the frontman Wayne Coyne the concerts are “safer than going to the grocery store.” At every show, there are 100 bubbles, each capable of holding a maximum of three people.

The capsules are equipped with a speaker, fan, bottle of water, towel, and a sign reading “I gotta go pee/It’s hot in here” to be shown to stewards, who escorted attendees or refilled the bubbles with cool air.

“We collect everybody and then we take them row by row to their bubbles,” Coyne told Rolling Stone. “Once you’re in the bubble you can do whatever the f–k you want, and that’s the beauty of it. That’s what we spent most of the time figuring out. The music part of it, we got that s–t down.”

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