BOWLING FOR SOUP, one of my favourite punk rock bands, are coming back to the UK next February for a ten-date tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their record A Hangover You Don’t Deserve.
And it’s apt they’re kicking off their tour in Blackpool on February 5, as frontman Jaret Reddick tells me he had one of the worst hangovers of his life in the seaside town.
“Blackpool is the only place I’ve ever been wheeled back to the tour bus,” Jaret tells me.
“We had a day off there and I was put onto a rolling dumpster to get me back.
“If you ask if I am going to a pub after the show, the answer is no. I know what you guys do.
“I fought to go back to Blackpool, that audience is amazing.”
The group, who will also perform in cities including Manchester, Nottingham and Edinburgh, are top of Yungblud’s wish-list for his next Bludfest music event.
And when I mention how much the British singer loved BFS, Jaret admitted the feeling is mutual.
Jaret, who appears on Disney’s new punk album, Whole New Sound, out now, added: “I love Yungblud, he is so good for music.
“When I met him, it was 2018 on the Warped Tour, and he just sucked on a dummy the whole time.
“Every time I saw him, he didn’t have a shirt on and he was dirty, and he just had a dummy in.
“Next thing you know, he’s doing songs with Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly.
“We have mutual love, he is genuinely a great guy.”
LINKIN PARK are on course to land the highest new entry in the singles chart this week, according to Official Charts.
Their track The Emptiness Machine, which looks set to get to No2, is their first new single since 2017.
If the band achieves the feat, it’ll be a career best for the American rockers who last peaked at No6 in 2007 with What I’ve Done.
Sabrina Carpenter is still at No1, with Taste.
A BRILLIANT new exhibition celebrating the Isle Of Wight festival opens at London’s O2 arena on September 19.
Experience 25, which marks the festival’s quarter century, will feature photographs and footage of some of the most incredible moments from IoW, including Bob Dylan playing to a 150,000-strong crowd in 1969 and Amy Winehouse and Mick Jagger’s duet in 2007.
Visitors will also be able to see first-hand how promoter John Giddings and Ray Foulk, who curated the first three festivals, turned the festival into one of our country’s best loved annual music events.
Iconic images of The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell are also on display, alongside never before seen video footage.
John said: “The iconic Isle of Wight festival 1970 was the Woodstock of Europe, but the IOW Council in their wisdom decided to ban it for 32 years in the form of an act of parliament, allowing others to pick up the baton.
“They let us restart it for the Queen’s jubilee, and it has gone from strength to strength, re-establishing this small island off the south coast of England as a worldwide brand.”
TEXAS frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri had the audience in stitches as she waxed lyrical about everything from snobby celebrities to cancel culture during their near two-hour greatest hits show.
It’s half comedy gig and half belting pop concert, diving into a back catalogue spanning 35 years and 13 Top Ten hits.
She is one of the most charismatic women in music and from the second she bounces on stage with their debut single, I Don’t Want A Lover, it’s clear there’s not an ounce of nerves and that her voice is stronger than ever.
As a tight unit on a modest stage set-up, they play feel-good hits including Summer Son, In Our Lifetime, Black Eyed Boy, Say What You Want and Inner Smile – the last of which understandably gets the biggest reaction.
And with the crowd hanging on her every note, she tells them: “Take as many photographs as you want, I don’t give a s**t.
“You know that bulls**t of people who go on stage and go, ‘You got me at a bad angle?’.
“With me, every f***ing angle is a bad angle so it makes no difference.
“I don’t need the pity vote. At the end of the day, I know I can sing a song and I can play a guitar so I don’t give a flying f*** how I look.
“And I have a good haircut.”
She’s an expert at her craft – and hilarious for good measure. Worth every penny.
A DEREK & THE DOMINOS guitar case once used by frontman Eric Clapton has sold for £4,500.
The well-travelled piece of music history had an estimate of £50-£100 when it went up for sale at Ryedale Auction Room in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorks.
But the hammer went down at not too far off £5,000, which isn’t bad given the person who put it up for sale was handed it by a roadie who didn’t realise its value.
