lifestyle MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017

GOSSIP Rag'n'Bone Man drove ferry to festival

ag'n'Bone Man steered his own ferry to the Isle of Wight festival. The home and stuff. "But yeah it's just the atmosphere. It's crazy. You know, 'Human' singer took the stage at the prestigious event over the playing Brighton Dome it's like a real prestigious venue, we had a fantastic Rweekend, and made sure he arrived from mainland England in style. time." The 'Skin' singer has a hectic festival season ahead, and though his Speaking backstage to Absolute Radio's Pete Donaldson, he said: "They let friends are always keen to join him backstage, he's been trying to explain me steer the ferry pretty much all the way here. You just hold this massive it isn't as glamorous as they might think. He said: "To be honest the back- steering wheel and make sure you hold it steady and that's pretty much it." stage is never really as good as people make out. "I always get my friends The 32-year-old singer - whose real name is Rory Graham - performed a and family say, 'Oh, can we come backstage?' And you're like, 'You do real- homecoming show at the Great Escape festival in Brighton last month and ize it's just a box room maybe with some fruit and a bottle of spirit and a admitted it was a "massive buzz" to get out on stage in front of his loved couple of warm beers and basically loads of people sitting on their ones. He said: "It was a massive buzz to be honest. Yeah, I like, any home phone?' show we have done is always a buzz because you get to see friends and family and there is a whole bunch of people there who've come from

Liam Payne taking No Saturdays reunion yet tips from Cheryl ollie King insists The Saturdays won't reunite for a "Oh God no, not at all. We're all so supportive of each other. "couple of years". The 'Issues' hitmakers - compris- We've been through so much with one another. "Me and iam Payne gets Cheryl Tweedy to "check" his ing Mollie, Vanessa White, Rochelle Humes, the girls are still very much a band, so we haven't split up performances. The 'Strip That Down' singer M thinks his girlfriend has an "amazing" stage Frankie Bridge and Una Healy - have been on hiatus since or anything. It's just about supporting each other on our L 2015, but there are still no plans for them to reunite, and different journeys and it's so nice to be close to them." For presence so is only too happy to take tips from her they will only do so when they are all on board. Mollie said: now, Mollie is looking forward to releasing her "girly before he gets out in front of his fans. Speaking at "It would need to be all five of us. You never know what's anthem" at some point this summer. She told Look maga- the Capital Summertime Ball in London on Saturday going to happen, so watch this space. "It would be fun to zine: "I'm currently recording. My single will be out towards he told The Sun Online: "I had her come in, I had the do in a couple of years' time." Since going on hiatus, Mollie, the end of summer so I haven't been able to take any holi- whole family come in and watch my performance Vanessa and Una have all launched solo careers, while days until I know the exact release date. "It's an upbeat one and she's really funny and we were just in my room Rochelle has moved into presenting and Frankie enjoyed a - a girly anthem that you can blast out of your car or dance upstairs performing but I like her to check things stint on 'Strictly Come Dancing'. But Mollie insists there is to on a night out." because she's amazing. "She's an amazing performer no competition between them and they are all supportive and if there's a dance move she'll be like 'Yeah, can of one another. Asked if things are competitive, she said: you do this a bit more like this way' she gets into it, Shaun Ryder it's a lot of fun. It's nice to have someone who's a pro at home to tell you." As he prepares to launch his debut solo album, the 23-year-old singer has already wanted to found his youngest fan, 11-week-old son Bear. He said: "There was a song of mine that I was going through my album this morning, picking up songs and seeing ones I still like, and there's a little be a rapper 'woohoo' in one of the songs and he was literally haun Ryder always wanted to be a rapper. The Black laughing his head off, he loved it." Meanwhile, Liam Grape frontman felt it was "effeminate" to be a singer was happy to see his One Direction bandmate Niall Sand admits the indie sound of his group Happy Horan perform at the Summertime Ball, and praised Mondays would have been very different if he'd gone in the 'Slow Hands' singer for his appearance at Ariana the direction he wanted. He said: "Singing, to us growing Grande's charity concert last weekend, which was up, was quite effeminate. It was one thing singing hymns, staged to raise money for the victims of the bomb but to be an actual singer was like, oo-er. "You could say, attack at her show in Manchester last month. He 'Well, you weren't technically a singer, like Dylan or Rotten said: It's great to see him. He's different with his dif- weren't - then it's different, right? But I never wanted to be ferent hair. I haven't seen him in a while but I've a singer, more like a rapper. The only reason the Mondays watched his progression and how he's doing at the didn't go in that direction was because white dudes didn't moment. I watched him play at the Ariana gig which do that in 1982, know what I mean? "So we had to adapt I thought was an amazing thing everyone did. Hats into an indie-ish sort of thing, but in my own head, I was a off to him, it was such an important cause as well." rapping Bob Dylan." The 'Kelly's Heroes' hitmaker is work- ing with Black Grape again this year, but admitted he was initially planning to reform Happy Mondays until it proved too difficult to arrange. He said: "There's six people in that band, including Rowetta, so getting anything together with them is slightly harder than just with me and [Kemit] here, so that's why it turned into a Black Grape album." But Lawrence fine after percussionist Bez - a member of both bands - isn't involved Big Boi's in the reunion for "business" reasons. Shaun explained: "Why pay top dollar for the Mondays, if you can have plane forced to make Shaun and Bez for cheaper in Black Grape? "So that's how it is now, you're not having Shaun and Bez unless it's on musical rebirth television or it's in Happy Mondays." And the former 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!' star has a plan in mind to emergency landing promote his new record He told Q magazine: "I can't talk too much about it but I've just been offered two different ennifer Lawrence is fine after her plane was forced to reality shows, which would mean going out on primetime make an emergency landing. The 'Silver Linings TV every night of the week, and what have I got coming JPlaybook' actress was reportedly travelling from out? A new Black Grape album." Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday when one of the engines Gomez doesn't failed at 31,000 feet. The pilots made an emergency land- ing, but while in the middle of the unscheduled stop, the other engine failed. Fortunately, the private plane landed know 'where to go' safely in Buffalo, New York, and was greeted by multiple emergency vehicles, and a spokesperson for the 26-year- old actress - who had been in Kentucky visiting family - with new music confirmed to E! News that she was unhurt. Jennifer recent- ly admitted she can be socially awkward and gets "really overwhelmed" at parties because there are so many peo- ple. She said: "I get really overwhelmed by the amount of people, then I find two people and I imprison them and I trap them and I'm like 'It's you and me.'... "One year for the Oscars, I think it was the 'American Hustle' year, I juice cleansed and then got really, really wasted. Then some- ig Boi's new album feels like a "rebirth". The thing was smoking and then I barfed, at Guy Oseary's Outkast rapper is gearing up for the release of house. I vomited, cheers Guy. I remember going up to Ellen B'Boomiverse' and loves the fact he's never Page and saying, 'I need to get in my car,' and she was like, been afraid to experiment or try something new. He 'Not my problem.' And I was like, 'Take me home Ellen!'" said:" Life's about evolution. Always try to reinvent And the 'Hunger Games' star - who is thought to be dating yourself, in a natural way. "I'm always trying to find a director Darren Aronofsky - previously admitted she new sound, new flows. "Taking risks is the most "works very hard" to keep her life private. She explained: important thing to me. I truly feel like my new record "You might think you know me, but when you approach Olly Murs is a rebirth - it really feels like all bets are off." The 42- me you're a total stranger to me and I'm scared. [I get] very year-old musician - whose real name is Antwan protective of my space. It took me a long time to be able Patton - has collaborated with a number of different to do that. "If I'm eating dinner and somebody comes up artists throughout his career and likened the process and a flash goes off from someone's iPhone camera, I am planning music break to making a "stew" because it requires a variety of really rude to that person. Then other people at the restau- qualities from everyone involved. He said: "Learn to rant will see and be like, 'Oh, damn, I don't want to do that.' elena Gomez doesn't know "where she wants to go" lly Murs is planning to take a short break from compromise. I've learned this from collaborating Privacy is a full-time job and I work very hard at it." with her music. The 24-year-old singer has said she's music. The 'You Don't Know Love' hitmaker is look- with other people. It's a good thing. "Sometimes two Sgot enough material to make up an album after Oing forward to spending time with his family and minds are better than one. You get different perspec- spending "a year" in the studio, but claims she isn't sure friends and having fun for the rest of this year, so he won't tives, you can look at things from all angles and build what to do with the pieces she's recorded as they all sound be rushing into the studio to record a new album. He said: off someone else's energy. "It's like making a pot of "different". She said: "I've been in the studio for a year. So I "I've done seven albums in seven years. I'll do another stew. Someone is cutting up the celery, someone the can technically say I have an album, but I don't know album when it feels right. Sometimes in this job, you forget carrots, the paprika, the pepper... When you want to where I want to go with it because of how different every- you have to enjoy what you're doing, so this year is all make that special blend, you can only do it with the thing sounds." The 'Bad Liar' hitmaker is currently setting about me enjoying it and not worrying about what people right ingredients." Though Big Boi doesn't believe in up each song "to be a single", because she's unsure how to think. "I'm going to have some 'me' time, keep myself busy, coincidences, a collaboration with Snoop Dogg on tie all the tracks together. She continued: "I'm not just say- spend more time with my friends and family, and have his new album came about purely by chance. He told ing that because I feel like, 'Oh, that's exciting!' Every song more life experiences. "That's why I went to the States - I Q magazine: "I don't believe in coincidences. All the I'm setting up to be a single is just completely separate took two of my best mates for my birthday for two weeks energy you put into the universe comes back to you, from each other and I love that. So, I don't know where it's We went to California and had a fantastic trip. It wasn't so don't do something that's forced. "A perfect exam- gonna go, but I can say I have an album because it's a lot of drinking and partying every night, we went hiking, did a ple of being organic was working with Snoop. When I music." But Selena insists she won't leave albums behind boot camp and went to a theme park. But don't worry, it first recorded the album, on the first song I worked forever, as she says her fan base who will buy her records wasn't cocoa and early nights the whole time." The 33- on, I thought, 'Snoop would sound so good on here.' deserve "special things". Speaking with Carson Daly on year-old singer has been single since splitting from "Then just as I was about to turn the album in he did 97.1 AMP Radio on Thursday, Selena said: "I appreciate Francesca Thomas in 2015, and though he'd like to meet a listening party at my studio. It was organized at the albums. I get it. I know how much music is changing, but someone eventually, he's currently enjoying having the last minute so I had to be somewhere else, but my you know, I've still got my fan base that I want to special time to look after himself. He told Closer magazine: "I'd be engineer called me and said, 'Snoop is here and things too, music that deserves to be listened to that lying if I didn't say it was quite nice to be single and focus wants to do a song with you.' "I got him to play that maybe won't be on the radio. It will just be for them." on myself, but there are times when I'm at home and think first track and Snoop went, 'I'm not leaving until I've Meanwhile, Selena previously admitted her music is it would be good to have someone here with me. "It's still finished this one.' "evolving", and said her new material will mark a change difficult at times and I miss what I don't have. But it is what from her 2015 album 'Revival', which featured hits such as it is. It's all about meeting and dating the wrong ones until 'Hands to Myself' and 'Same Old Love'. She said: "It's an you find the right one. That's my motto. I will continue to evolution and I know it's different and I just wanted it to just be me and try to meet the right one." sound like something I've never done before."