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This Lancashire town is ready to welcome tourists back to major indoor attractions from Monday A Lancashire town that relies on tourism to boost its economy is preparing to put out the welcome mat after the government confirmed that remaining restrictions on its industry will be lifted from May 17. The Prime Minister’s roadmap announcement has paved the way for indoor hospitality and attractions to reopen in Blackpool along with show venues, hotels and guesthouses. On Monday, Cabinet Member for Tourism and Culture at Blackpool Council, Cllr Gillian Campbell, said it was “brilliant news” for the tourism industry. She said: “The past 15 months have presented some of the most difficult and challenging times in Blackpool’s long tourism history.
She Walks in Beauty
This album features an ageing pop star reciting a selection of her favourite 19th century poems – Byron, Shelley, Keats – while her muso mates conjure an “ambient odyssey” in the background. That might sound like a “bum-clenchingly awful vanity project”, said Helen Brown in The Independent – but when the pop star is the “formidable” Marianne Faithfull and her pals are Warren Ellis, Nick Cave and Brian Eno, you know you’re in for something good. Faithfull makes these “200-year-old visions of beauty, love and death feel as urgent as the latest true-crime podcast”. And the backing – a misty soundscape of waves, birdsong, electronica, street sounds, piano and cello – turns the album into an “unsentimental spine-tingler”.
Congratulations to Royal Blood, who earn their third Number 1 album with Typhoons.
With 32,000 chart sales - including 24,000 on physical formats and the most digital downloads of the week - the Brighton duo outsell the rest of the Top 5 combined and claim the biggest opening week for a British act in 2021 so far.
Royal Blood’s third chart-topper follows 2014’s Royal Blood and 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark?.
Celebrating the news, Royal Blood – aka Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher - told OfficialCharts.com:
“This is getting ridiculous now. I don’t think we thought we’d make more than one album, so to get to here and be on our third and it be Number 1 is a joke, to be honest with you. We’d just like to say thank you to everyone that went out and bought it. Thank you very much, it means a lot to us. Having a Number 1 record in 2021 is like… having a Number 1 record in 2021! A great feeling. Thank you so much, we’ll see you on tour.”
The Coral took Noel Gallagher s advice to release Coral Island as a double album.
The straight-talking ex-Oasis rocker told his pals in the In The Morning group that they shouldn t worry about how their music will do on streaming service Spotify, and stick the extensive 24-song collection on a 2CD LP, instead of fans having to wait a few months in between records.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper s Wired column, frontman James Skelly said: When I told Noel about the idea he said: Why don t you just release it as one album? I asked Noel, What about how it ll all work on Spotify?