Music News

Ed Sheeran has replaced Justin Bieber as the headliner for Fusion Festival with Vimto.
The 'Boyfriend' hitmaker pulled out of the headline slot earlier this week due to an "unforeseen issue" but Ed has now stepped in to take his place at the Birmingham-based annual event, which raises money for Prince Charles' young peoples charity the Prince's Trust.
Ed commented: "I'm delighted to be playing Fusion Festival after stepping in at the last minute to help out the guys at Fusion and support The Princes Trust. Birmingham crowds are always lively, so I can't wait to come back. See you in a few weeks!"
The 24-year-old star's 90-minute performance will come just a month after he played to over 290,000 people during three consecutive sold out shows at London's Wembley Arena and follows his surprise collaboration with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, 'Growing Up', which was released on Wednesday (05.08.15).
The 'Thinking Out Loud' singer - whose second album 'x' was the UK's best-selling album of 2014, shifting over 1.7 million copies - will be joined by Tinie Tempah, Rixton, DJ Fresh, Fuse ODG, Aston Merrygold, Shift K3y and Luke Friend when he headlines the first day of the three-day event on Friday August 28.
Other acts scheduled to perform during the festival at Cofton Park - for which tickets are still available for - include Rudimental, Labrinth, Clean Bandit, Ella Henderson, McBusted, The Vamps, Jess Glynne and Gorgon City.

Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones "didn't want to be famous".
The 41-year-old rocker has insisted he was never lured into the music industry by the idea of fame and fortune but believes it was the main reason why his late bandmate, drummer Stuart Cable, wanted to be in the well-known band.
Speaking about his time in the band, he said: "I mean, at the end of the day it's a bloke writing poetry to music ... but I think people now, they look at the television and they think, 'I could do that', because they want what comes with it, but we didn't want to be famous really, that's the truth.
"Well, Stuart did. All he wanted to do was be famous, and have a swimming pool and a fast car, but to me that was the last thing on my mind. I didn't even know why I wanted it; I just knew I loved this thing."
The 'Dakota' hitmaker - whose new album 'Keep the Village Alive' will be released next month - continued to say he was naive about the industry when he first started making music because he didn't realise the impact it would have on his and his bandmates' lives.
He added to The Independent newspaper: "I don't think you really take on board when you're younger how much it's going to take over you the older you get. As much as you think you can put it down whenever you want, you can't, because you've made it part of your system. So that whenever things happen to you, you express them out. I'm glad that I can do that because a lot of people where I come from, that are my age, they couldn't do that. Some of them wouldn't have the balls to do it."
Stereophonics will appear at V Festival on August 22 - 23, where Carling will have its Game On area, giving the chance for punters to predict the best festival and football moments across the weekend, with a guest appearance from footie legend Jimmy Bullard at Hylands Park on the Saturday (22.08.15).

Alesha Dixon will release her new album in October.
The 36-year-old singer has announced the release of her new solo LP, 'Do It For Love' - her fourth studio record - which she has teased will show people the "heart and soul" of who she is.
She said: "This record is uplifting, fun and honest. 'Do It For Love' is the heart and soul of who I am and what I believe in. It's a personal triumph and a moment I have waited a long time for."
The album will be released on October 9 and will be her first record in five years, following 2010's 'The Entertainer' which featured singles 'Drummer Boy' and 'Take Control'.
The former Miss-Teeq star has taken creative control on the collection including co-writing several of the songs along with Alex James, Harry Sommerdahl and Da Beat Freakz, with the LP also featuring a collaboration with rapper 'Wretch 32' titled 'Stop'.
The 'Britain's Got Talent' judge - who has 22-month-old daughter Azura Sienna - has already released the first single from the album, garage-style tune 'The Way We Are'.

Madonna has promised to blend "sexuality and religion" into her 'Rebel Heart Tour'.
The 56-year-old star has revealed she has been inspired by "deconstructing" concepts on her forthcoming world tour, which will kick off in Montreal, Canada, on September 9.
She said: "I'm very immersed in deconstructing the concept of sexuality and religion and how it's not supposed to go together, but in my world it goes together."
The news comes just a week after it was revealed the show will feature pole dancing women controversially dressed as nuns.
However, the 'Living For Love' hitmaker insisted the thing she is most looking forward to about the tour is the opportunity to perform new material from her 2015 album 'Rebel Heart'.
She gushed: "Of course, the thing I'm most excited about doing is my new stuff, because I haven't done it yet and it's fresh."
The musical icon - who has been spending 10 to 12 hours rigorously preparing for the tour each day - admitted nailing down the set list has been "tricky" though as she wants to please fans with a mix of both old and new songs.
She told Entertainment Weekly magazine: "But I realize that people want to hear my older stuff, so for me it's always a tricky balance trying to keep some kind of continuity, not only with sound, sonically, but also thematically ... a lot of times I have to take the songs and turn them inside out and make them more ironic than straightforward."

Keith Richards has slammed The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album.
The 71-year-old rocker has blasted the band's acclaimed 1967 album - which was previously named Rolling Stone magazine's number one album of all time - dismissing it as "a load of s**t" and suggesting they didn't care about the LP.
He said: "Some people think it's a genius album, but I think it's a mishmash of rubbish, kind of like - 'Oh, if you can make a load of s**t, so can we'."
The Rolling Stones musician continued to badmouth the album by saying while the band - featuring Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon - were "great" with their earlier releases such as 'Please Please Me', 'Revolver' and 'A Hard Day's Night', they got "carried away" with the album, which was released three years before their split in 1970.
He told Esquire magazine: "The 
Beatles sounded great when they were the Beatles. But there's not a lot of roots in that music. I think they got carried away. Why not? If you're the Beatles in the '60s, you just get carried away - you forget what it is you wanted to do."

Michael Buble will duet with Elvis Presley on a new album.
The 39-year-old crooner will team up with the late musical icon on a new greatest hits collection on which some of the 'Jailhouse Rock' hitmaker's most well-known songs will be reworked with backing from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Speaking about the collection, Elvis' former wife Priscilla, 70, said: "This would be a dream come true for Elvis.
"He would have loved to play with such a prestigious symphony orchestra. The music ... the force that you feel with his voice and the orchestra is exactly what he would have done."
Michael - whose wife Luisana Lopilato recently announced she was pregnant with their second child - will duet with the star on 'Fever', with other famous tracks such as "Love Me Tender' and 'Can't Help Falling In Love' also featuring on the record.
The new collection, which is titled 'If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra', will be released on October 30 through Sony Music Entertainment to celebrate what would have been Elvis' 80th year in 2015.
Later this year, ITV will also celebrate Elvis' life with an hour-long documentary called 'Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me'.

The tracklist for 'If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra' is as follows:
1. 'Burning Love'
2. 'It's Now or Never'
3. 'Love Me Tender'
4. 'Fever' feat. Michael Bublé
5. 'Bridge over Troubled Water'
6. 'And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind'
7. 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling'
8. 'There's Always Me'
9. 'Can't Help Falling in Love'
10. 'In the Ghetto'
11. 'How Great Thou Art'
12. 'Steamroller Blues'
13. 'An American Trilogy'
14. 'If I Can Dream'

Mel B intends to "gather the troops" for a Spice Girls reunion.
The 40-year-old singer is determined she and her former bandmates - Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, and Mel C - will do something to mark the fact next year sees them celebrate 20 years since the release of their debut single 'Wannabe', even if the rest of the group are not convinced.
She said: "When you say it's our 20th anniversary coming up, it does make you think, 'Oh, my gosh, it really has been that long.'
"Hopefully, we'll gather the troops around, and we'll get to do something to celebrate it next year. It's in my plan, I don't know about anybody else's."
The 'Holler' singer has "great memories" of her time in the band and is particularly pleased they are all still good friends and get along well.
She added during an interview on 'The Today Show': "I've got so many great memories. I got to tour the world with four of my best friends - even today we still all support each other. We like each other, and that's the most important part."
Mel recently insisted she and her bandmates are still just like their old Spice Girl personas, and she will "always" be Scary Spice.
She said: "We're all kind of exactly the same, we've just like aged a little more gracefully. When I jump out of the shower, my hair's lovely and curly, and I like that. You can't stop you from being you, and I'm Scary Spice, always, and I don't mind that!"

David Guetta was raised as a hippy and spent his childhood "walking bare foot in Paris".
The 47-year-old superstar DJ has revealed his mother was a bohemian character and he believes his love of Ibiza comes from his upbringing.
Talking on BBC Radio 1's 'Made in Ibiza' series, he said: "My mum was a hippy, so I was raised like this ... I was walking bare foot in Paris when I was a child, but I love that vibe."
Guetta believes 'The White Island' still has a "hippy heritage" and that's what makes the clubbers' paradise such a special place.
He explained: "I think the hippy heritage of Ibiza left something that is very unique ... I love the fact there's a hippy heritage. I love that the underground scene is still very strong and I love the fact that there's still so many different types of music in Ibiza and that people are so open-minded."
Guetta feels as though he owes much of his success to his time spent playing clubs in Ibiza and he loves to go back and perform.
He admitted: "Representing Ibiza from the very early days has helped me a lot in my DJ career ... and it's still a key point of my career. Before I had those hits, I was that guy, the Ibiza DJ."

Supertramp have had to cancel their European tour due to founding member Rick Davies' cancer diagnosis.
The 'Supertramp Forever' shows have all been called off so Rick can receive treatment for his multiple myeloma - which attacks the plasma cells in a person's blood.
The concerts were due to be the 'Give a Little Bit' band's first shows since their 2010 European tour to mark their 40th anniversary.
In a statement announcing the unfortunate news, Rick, 71, said: "I was really looking forward to returning to Europe and playing with the band again and I'm sorry to disappoint everyone who has overwhelmingly supported the upcoming tour. Unfortunately my current health issues have derailed me and right now I need to focus all of my energy on getting well."
The tour was set to kick off on November 3 at the Gondomar Pavilion in Porto, Portugal, and continue throughout 25 European cities, culminating with the final performance on December 11 at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Holland.
Fans can contact their local promoter or the venue for details regarding ticket refunds.

'Supertramp Forever' tour full list of cancelled dates:

3 November Porto Gondomar Pavilion
4 November Lisbon Meo Arena
6 November Madrid Barclaycard Center
7 November Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi
9 November Milan Fila Forum
11 November Geneva Geneva Arena
13 November Marseille Le Dôme
14 November Montpellier Zenith (Montpellier)
16 November Nantes Zénith (Nantes)
18 November Toulouse Zénith (Toulouse)
19 November Bordeaux Patinoire Meriadeck
22 November Lyon Halle Tony Garnier
24 November Oberhausen Konig-Pilsener Arena
25 November Zurich Hallenstadion
26 November Frankfurt Festhalle
28 November Ischgl Ski Lodge
29 November Munich Olympiahalle
1 December Lille Zénith (Lille)
4 December Paris Bercy Arena
5 December Luxembourg Rockhal
7 December London O2 Arena
9 December Belgium Palais 12
10 December Hamburg O2 World
11 December Amsterdam Ziggo Dome