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Thursday October 12, 2017

THE Streets has announced a comeback tour.

It’ll be the fi rst time that the band, fronted by Mike Skinner, has played live since their farewell tour seven years ago.

“Spoken to my band! Told them we need to sing the old songs!” he said in an Instagram post.

Other musicians are excited by the comeback, including Lethal Bizzle who wrote on the post: “Can’t wait for this bro jheeeeeeeez.”

The band last performed on tour in support of their fi fth album, “Computers and Blues,” and Skinner has since been working as a DJ, as well as making solo

music and documentaries.“I’ve missed tour buses very much,

which is the least of the reasons why I have decided to tour The Streets again,” says the 38-year-old.

“The other thing I’ve missed is trying to think up what I’m going to say in the gap between the songs.”

And it looks like fans can expect the party to continue long into the early hours after each show.

Starting in Birmingham in April 2018, the tour will include dates in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and London.

The news has gone down well with fans and other performers — with the

post getting more than 17,000 likes.Wiley posted on Instagram that Skin-

ner is “the master of his craft.” The Streets’ debut album, “Original

Pirate Material,” was nominated for the 2002 Mercury Music Prize and is often named among the best albums of that decade by music magazines.

The band released their fi nal album in 2011.

At the time, the Birmingham rapper said he had no regrets about retiring the project, as he didn’t want to be “singing ‘Let’s Push Things Forward’ when I’m 40.”

(SD-Agencies)

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ANGELINA JOLIE and Gwyneth Pal-trow are the latest actresses to allege they were victims of sexual harass-ment by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

Both said the incidents happened early in their careers.

They join a string of actresses accusing Weinstein of harassment. Weinstein’s wife, designer Georgina Chapman, said Tuesday that she was leaving him.

“My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions,” the 41-year-old told People magazine. London-born Chapman, co-founder of fashion label Marchesa, and Weinstein, 65, have two children together.

Paltrow and Jolie say they were Weinstein victims

Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have added their voice to growing demonstrations of public outrage. Their eldest daughter Malia worked as an intern at The Wein-

stein Company in New York earlier this year.

A statement released by the Obamas says they “have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein.” It adds they “celebrate the courage of women who have come forward.”

Also on Tuesday, Paltrow and Jolie both sent statements to the New York Times, which fi rst reported allegations against him last week.

Jolie said in an email: “I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did.

“This behavior towards women in any fi eld, any country is unacceptable.”

In a statement, Paltrow alleged that,

after Weinstein cast her in the leading role in “Emma,” he summoned her to his hotel suite, where he placed his hands on her and suggested massages in his bedroom.

“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrifi ed,” she told the newspaper.

She said she told her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident, and said he confronted Weinstein.

“I thought he was going to fi re me,” she said.

Hillary Clinton shared a statement saying that she was “shocked and appalled” by the revelations about Weinstein, who donated to her 2016 presidential campaign and has been a major donor to Clinton and Obama’s Democratic party. (SD-Agencies)

GEORGE MICHAEL regretted suing his record label in the 1990s, a new documentary reveals.

The star took Sony to court in 1992, claiming he had little control over his work, with the company treat-ing him as “no more than a piece of software.”

He eventually lost the case, which put his career on hold for fi ve years.

“It dented the armor in his career in the United States,” said Michael’s friend and former manager, David Austin, who produced the new Chan-nel 4 documentary.

“He was a guy who was fi ring on all four cylinders and it just, it blew that candle out in the States without a doubt.”

“He says in the fi lm, and when we were talking about the court case and how we were going to handle it, and I didn’t realize this at all, but he turned around to me and said how he regretted it.”

The Sony trial coincided with a devastating period in Michael’s per-sonal life, during which his partner Anselmo Feleppa discovered he was HIV positive and, later, died of an Aids-related brain haemorrhage.

In the documentary, which Michael was working on 48 hours before his death last Christmas, the star reveals he never fully recovered from Feleppa’s death.

He describes the Brazilian designer as his “savior,” who helped him feel comfortable about his sexuality.

(SD-Agencies)

George Michael regrets going to war with Sony

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