Whereas Beyoncé achieved superhuman status among the easily impressed by furiously maintaining her style of strong, squeaky-clean perfectionism, Rihanna has done the same with basically the opposite tactic, though – as her new album title Anti suggests – with similar levels of clinical brand-awareness. She’ll take her likely crowd-pleasingly profane show on the road in June 2016, by which time that album should finally (fingers crossed!) be out (14-29 Jun, tour starts Ricoh Arena, Coventry) …
If you’re reading this it’s (probably) too late, but Adele’s tour (29 Feb-30 Mar, tour starts SSE Arena, Belfast) went on sale properly yesterday …
If you don’t manage to get a ticket, you might be interested to know that Will Young is playing in Preston on 1 Jul …
Reading And Leeds festivals have announced their first wave of acts (26-28 Aug, Richfield Avenue & Braham Park). The lineup thus far includes the Red Hot Chili Peppers (who first headlined in 1994, a year that 99.999% of punters will never have heard of, let alone been alive for), new wavey popsters the 1975, and national treasures in the making, the Boy Better Know crew …
