World ATP Tour Finals come to the former Millennium Dome and its owners are planning for more to come Save for a brief burst of popularity for ice hockey in the years that followed the second world war, British sports fans have never taken to watching their heroes perform indoors. Despite, or perhaps because of, our obsession with the weather we have preferred the drizzle of the open terrace, the...
FA attacks BNP race rant video about Wembley The Football Association today demanded that a BNP promotional video featuring Wembley stadium be removed from the internet. The film uses the home of English football as a backdrop for a diatribe about immigrants in London. The venue was chosen to illustrate the far-Right party's view that the "iconic" neighbourhood had been "colonised"...
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This one should be taken with a gigantic pinch of salt until some official confirmation arrives, but a few rumored Daft Punk concert dates have been leaked online. The source for these shows is an Australian website named Undercover, which says: “A source close to the band has leaked Daft Punk’s proposed tour dates for 2010, including dates in Melbourne and Sydney.” Is Daft Punk...
Ne-Yo Announces Wembley Arena ShowPublished Friday, 20th November, 2009 at 10:20 AM has announced a one-off UK arena concert for next year.The R&B star will be heading to Wembley Arena in London on 14th February 2010, and .It's not known if Ne-Yo plans to announce more UK shows around the same time. He's also expected to release his fourth album in 2010 - the follow-up to last year's 'Year of the...
• Chief executive Ian Watmore keen for no job losses • £200m investment in grassroots football unaffected The Football Association board agreed in principle today to cut the organisation's spending by 10% as a means of coping with the summer collapse of the Irish broadcaster Setanta. At today's meeting of the 12-man board, the FA's chief executive, Ian Watmore, presented plans to make...
Dark and damp. I went cheerfully up to the golf club on Monday to find the course closed on account of all the rain. So I went home, then tried again at 10. Didn't fancy it, so moved to Plan B and went to the garden centre to buy some winter-flowering pansies. All I have to do now is plant them out. Un de ces jours. The golf was OK on Tuesday, then after a lunchtime snack, the paper and a snooze. I...
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Arctic Monkeys @ Wembley Arena I have to admit ever since getting my tickets in late August I've been anticipating this gig more than any other. It'd had been along time since I last saw the Monkeys. At Reading Festival 2006 they played a barnstorming set before headliners Muse. Where they blew threw seemingly every track they had as fast as humanly possible. But now three years on and two albums later,...
Ahhhh! another helping of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb... takes me straight back to them playing at the old Wembley Stadium in the 80's.... Perfect for relieving stress... What's your favourite of all time???
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