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Blur announce surprise Newcastle show this May
Ahead of Blur’s big double-date at Wembley this summer, the band will perform four warm-up gigs including one at Newcastle’s 02 City Hall!
Nineties rockers Blur have announced a special show in Newcastle in the run-up to their much-hyped London reunion concert.
The award-winning Britpop favourites generated huge excitement in November when news first emerged that all four members – Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree – will be performing together at a double-date at Wembley Stadium in July, for the first time since 2015, with a showcase of their greatest hits. And now North East fans are in for a treat too following the revelation that the band will be back in action earlier than that, in a series of warm-up shows which will being them to Newcastle ahead of Wembley.
Blur, who followed up their 1991 debut album Leisure with five successive number one albums, have announced they will be playing four new dates this May, including one at Newcastle’s 02 City Hall – and the venue says it will have priority tickets available 48 hours early – from 10am on Wednesday, April 26.
The warm-up shows will be in Colchester Arts Centre on May 19, Eastbourne Winter Gardens on May 21 and then The Halls, Wolverhampton, on May 26 before Newcastle hosts the last one on May 28.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am this Friday, April 28, which you can purchase here: https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/oq45De
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Yorkie’s ‘not for girls’ advert from 2002 has gone viral and people can’t believe it aired
With over two decades passing, some people are only just discovering the Yorkie ‘not for girls’ advert from 2002, and they can’t believe it.
That’s right, over 20 years have passed and younger generations are only just coming across the advert for Nestle’s thick milk chocolate bar, with mixed opinions on it.
Many can’t believe it made it onto TV, while others think the advert was ‘proper genius’ and ‘just a joke’. Either way, all would agree it probably wouldn’t go down so well today.
The Yorkie slogan in 2002 went as follows: “Five big chunks of masculine chocolate. Yorkie… it’s not for girls.”
The advert shows a woman disguising herself as a man to try to purchase a Yorkie bar from the shop.
One person recalled: “As a girl I simply accepted the fact I would be arrested for attempting to buy a Yorkie.”
While another chimed in: “Yep, and I remember the massive kick off. I haven’t bought a Yorkie since.”
Others said they thought it was a great marketing tactic from Nestle seeing as it caused many women to head out to buy a bar in defiance, and many men choosing the chocolate while enjoying and benefitting from the ride – a successful marketing campaign, for sure.
Do you remember the advert well? See the video below either for the first time or to brush up on your early 2000’s tv knowledge!
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Broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88, the BBC has announced.
The former journalist was one of British television’s most famous faces through his talk show Parkinson, which initially ran on the BBC from 1971 to 1982.
He relaunched the show on the BBC in 1998 before it moved to ITV in 2004, until he retired the programme in 2007.
Over more than 800 episodes, Sir Michael interviewed some of the world’s most high-profile figures – including Muhammad Ali, Sir Elton John and George Michael – and helped make comedian Sir Billy Connolly a household name.
But despite his long and industrious career, Sir Michael’s 2003 interview with Meg Ryan went down in history as one of his most memorable shows.
The chat show king was faced with a stony-faced Ryan, who delivered one-word answers as she promoted her poorly received erotic thriller The Cut.
More than 20 years later, he offered an apology to the actress and admitted neither of them were on “top form”.
In 2013, Sir Michael revealed he was being treated for prostate cancer – but said he had no intention of stopping working.
Netflix have released a brand new film starring Gal Gadot, titled “Heart of Stone”. The American spy action thriller is centred around Rachel Stone, an intelligence operative who stands between her powerful global peacekeeping organization and the loss of its most valuable and dangerous asset.
A certain clip from the film has been going around Twitter recently though due to the costume of one of its characters.
During an intense chase scene where Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) is fleeing from the pursuing gunmen hunting her down, one of the characters can be seen to be wearing none other than Middlesbrough’s home shirt from the 09/10 season!
One Twitter user wrote, “@Boro, how the hell did this happen? Sat watching the new @GalGadot film and a bloody Boro fan is trying to kill her!!!”
You can see the clip here! – https://twitter.com/borochubster/status/1690486750362165248?s=46
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