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Scotsman
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Nathan Evans & The Saint Phnx Band: How to get tickets for OVO Hydro gig
Nathan Evans also played on Sunday at the festival. | PA Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band announced they will play the OVO Hydro during TRNSMT 2025. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band announced their biggest headline show to date at TRNSMT Festival over the weekend. While performing to a huge crowd at Glasgow Green on Sunday, the former postman and the Scottish band shared that they are set to play the OVO Hydro this October. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Evans said: 'To be able to announce that I'm playing the Hydro on stage at TRNSMT, in front of the fans who've helped make it happen, is the stuff that dreams are made of. The Scottish singer songwriter was nominated for a Brit Award. | PA 'Everything these days is about social media so there's something special about telling folk about it live during a show, especially in the beautiful sunshine.' Here's how to get tickets for Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band at the OVO Hydro. When will Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band play the OVO Hydro? Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band will perform at Glasgow's OVO Hydro on Saturday, October 25. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band. | Jack Geddes Media When do tickets go on sale? Tickets for Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band's Hydro gig will go on sale at 10am on Friday, July 18. They will be available for purchase through Gigs in Scotland. Is there presale for Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band's Hydro show? Yes, there is presale available for Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band's upcoming Glasgow show. Fans must register here for early access before 10pm on Tuesday, July 15 to receive an email with all of the presale information. Artist presale will begin at 10am on Wednesday, July 16. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad How much are Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band tickets ? To see Nathan Evans and The Saint Phnx Band at the OVO Hydro later this year, tickets will cost between £27.50 and £55.
Glasgow Times
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Nathan Evans announced Glasgow Hydro show at TRNSMT 2025
Nathan Evans and his crowd-pleasing collaboration with fellow Scots The Saint Phnx Band, announced their biggest headline show yet, at Glasgow's OVO Hydro arena on 25th October. Nathan revealed the news on stage in front of a massive crowd at TRNSMT Festival today. Band announce huge Glasgow Hydro show on stage at TRNSMT 2025 (Image: Jack Geddes Media) READ MORE: LIVE latest at Glasgow TRNSMT 2025 as Snow Patrol to headline Sunday READ MORE: Mon The Biff: Biffy Clyro show 50 Cent how it's done at TRNSMT 2025 READ MORE: Two teens rushed to hospital after becoming unwell at TRNSMT festival He said: 'To be able to announce that I'm playing the Hydro on stage at TRNSMT, in front of the fans who've helped make it happen, is the stuff that dreams are made of.' 'Everything these days is about social media, so there's something special about telling folk about it live during a show, especially in the beautiful sunshine.' The huge news follows the release of rollicking folk-pop banger Arabella, Nathan's first new single since the success of his sophomore album 1994, and the first to formalise his alchemic relationship with Saint Phnx – aka Alan and Stevie Jukes - as a collaborative single. It's the logical conclusion of a songwriting partnership which hit a vein of gold in songs like Heather on the Hill, Highland Girl and Flowers In The Water, melding Nathan's love of folk and trad music with a rhythmic and dynamic pop sensibility which took the album to Number 1 in the Scottish charts. Speaking about forming the group with them, Nathan said: 'Stevie and Alan have been a massive part of my journey since the beginning.' 'We wrote 'Told You So', my first single after Wellerman, together and we're more like brothers now. "Two years ago I asked them to come on tour with me and it's just grown arms and legs from there. "So now we're officially Nathan Evans and the Saint Phnx band and I get to travel the world making music with my best mates. "You can't ask for better than that.' Live, the combination is a 'potent force', creating a party atmosphere with a literal pub onstage, in ever-larger venues across the UK and Europe. Two shows at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom last year sold out as soon as they went on sale.. Tickets are priced between £27.50 and £55. Presale opens on Wednesday 16th July at 10am and fans can sign up here by Tuesday 15th at 10pm. General sale opens Friday 18th July at 10am here.
Daily Record
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
TRNSMT day three set times in full as Snow Patrol to headline on Sunday
Headlining act Snow Patrol will close the festival tonight. It's been a cracking weekend in the sun for TRNSMT at Glasgow Green, with just one final day left. TRNSMT 2025 promised to bring a stellar line-up across the weekend July 11, 12 and 13 and it's safe to say they have delivered just that. As part of Glasgow's 850th anniversary festivities, the BBC Introducing Stage is shining a light on the city's vibrant music scene, featuring local Glasgow rising talents. Sunday's star-studded show on July 13 promises to be a big one. Headlining acts include Tom Walker, Nathan Evans, Myles Smith and Snow Patrol. Elsewhere, headlining acts across the weekend also feature some of the music industries biggest players including The Script, 50 Cent, and Biffy Clyro. The View's Kyle Falconer has also joined the set list across the jam-packed weekend. Rockstar Energy has revealed some exciting new additions. The Boogie Bar stage has been taken over by BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage this year in a brand new location near the main entrance. Hosting 18 acts to get festival-goers boogieing over the course of the three days, including sets from Jaguar, who presents on Radio 1 's Introducing Dance show and Glaswegian DJ La La, joining other top selectors from across the UK. When do gates open? Gates for both the Main Stage and the King Tut's stage will open alongside everywhere else for access from 12pm, the same as both other days at Glasgow Green. The Record has been given a sneak preview as the site is being readied for up to 50,000 music fans each day. Though parking is restricted around the site area, there are pick up and drop off points on the Broomielaw and London Road. The city's subway will be closed all three days when the event is taking place due to the latest wave of strike action due to a dispute between the Unite union and subway operator Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT). Main Stage - Set times 12.30pm -1.00pm.... Nieve Ella (30 mins) 1.25pm - 2.15pm.... Tom Walker (50 mins) 2.45pm - 3.30pm... Nathan Evans & The Saint Phnx Band (45 mins) 4.00pm - 4.45pm... The Lathums (45 mins) 5.15pm - 6.00pm... Myles Smith (45 mins) 6.30pm - 7.15pm... JADE (45 mins) 7.45pm - 8.45pm.... Gracie Abrams (60 mins) 9.25pm - 10.55pm... Snow Patrol (90 mins) King Tut's Stage - Set times
Associated Press
08-07-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Mississippi's court system is now fully online. Here's how it happened
Every circuit, chancery and county court across Mississippi's 82 counties is finally part of the statewide electronic court system, completing a nearly two-decade-long mission to have a uniform digital court system. Nathan Evans, the director of the Mississippi Electronic Courts, said in a news release from the Administrative Office of the Courts, that the successful statewide implementation of the system marks a historic milestone for the judiciary. 'With both appellate courts and all 188 Chancery, Circuit and County Courts now operating on a single, centralized case management and e-filing system, we have taken a significant leap in efficiency, transparency, and access to justice for the public we serve,' Evans said. Electronic court implementation was voluntary in trial courts until the Legislature passed HB 25 in 2020, which Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law, requiring local trial courts to be fully integrated with the electronic system by July 2, 2021. But court leaders at the time notified state officials that it would be impossible to meet the statutory deadline and asked the Legislature to appropriate more money for the court to integrate all trial courts into the electronic system more quickly. The Legislature did not provide more money for court officials to complete the job of training local chancery and circuit clerk employees in every corner of the state on how to use the system, but court officials proceeded with the Herculean task. Still, the achievement means that attorneys can electronically file legal briefs in every state court, and the public can view court documents through the Mississippi Electronic Court system by subscribing to the system and paying a 20-cents per-page viewing fee. If citizens still want to view court documents without paying the MEC viewing fee, they can go to the proper courthouse and look at the legal filings on the public court terminal. 'Now, our judges, district attorneys, public defenders, and attorneys can access and file documents instantly,' Rankin County Circuit Clerk Michelle Adcock said in the news release. 'It's a game changer for courtroom efficiency and transparency. This just streamlines justice and increases public access to court records.' But before the court's recent announcement, it took a performance storm almost 20 years ago that involved a whiteboard in Canton, the U.S. Senate's seniority system and a gift from the federal court for Mississippi's electronic court system to get off the ground. When then-Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. read an article in a newspaper around 2005 saying that Hinds County would start allowing attorneys to partially 'e-file' court documents, he knew the state Supreme Court should get involved. Waller, an associate justice of the court at the time, realized that if the state's highest court didn't step in and provide some guidance on an electronic system, then the state could eventually have a patchwork of different programs. So, he encouraged Chief Justice James Smith to create a task force exploring electronic courts. Justice Smith followed Waller's advice and formed a committee of judges, court clerks and attorneys. Soon, the task force began meeting and listened to a presentation from J.T. Noblin, the clerk of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Noblin walked the task force members through how attorneys and judges used the federal electronic filing system that was in place across federal district courts in the country. After the presentation, Arthur Johnston, the Madison County chancery clerk who served on the committee, had an epiphany. 'A light went on in my head that said we have so many lawyers in the state who are familiar with that federal system,' Johnston said. 'I wondered if that could be the system that we adopt. Justice Waller thought that was a splendid idea.' Members of the task force traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi's senior senator, who served as chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, to discuss the federal electronic court system. Cochran used his position as chairman of the committee to slip a provision into the federal judiciary's appropriation bill that required the federal courts to give the Mississippi court system its federal electronic software and code for free, saving state taxpayers a large sum of money. After the legislation passed, the wonky and technical work of actually creating a Mississippi version of the federal system began. Madison County Chancery Court was the first to attempt to roll out an electronic court, but there was one main snag in trying to copy the federal judiciary's electronic system: the Chancery Court system dealt with different types of cases than federal court. Federal courts typically deal with criminal and civil cases, similar to Mississippi's Circuit Court system. But the Chancery Court deals with estates, adoption, custody, divorce and questions about the Mississippi Constitution. To iron out the issues, Johnston and his deputy clerks — Kim Seivers, Lakisha Jones-Clay and Stacey Toten — worked out of a room in the local WIN Job Center and converted it into a 'war room.' Each afternoon, the employees would look through Chancery Court cases and create a corresponding description in the database to create its electronic system. The work eventually paid off because Madison County accepted the first electronic case in 2008. 'We would make notes on a dry-erase board on the problems we ran into,' Johnston said. The work in the war room eventually created a template that other courts across the state, with the help of the Administrative Office of the Courts, would replicate. While the work took decades to complete, Waller hopes that ultimately the openness that comes with an electronic court can improve the public's image of the judiciary, and make attorneys' jobs easier. 'It's a beautiful success story for the state,' Waller said. 'There's no doubt about it.' ___ This story was originally published by Mississippi Today and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.
The Independent
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Duke of Edinburgh says awards mark ‘pride and success' in youth achievements
The Duke of Edinburgh has congratulated young people as they celebrated their gold awards in the gardens of The Palace of Holyroodhouse. The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) was founded by the late Prince Philip in 1956 and to achieve a gold award young people must complete physical, skills, volunteering and expedition sections as well as a residential. On Friday, the Palace of Holyroodhouse's gardens were transformed into a festival-style party, with games, food stalls, and various activities as around 600 gold award winners celebrated their achievements. Attendees heard from famous Scots including Olympic runner Eilish McColgan, singer Nathan Evans, and actor James Cosmo. The Duke of Edinburgh, who received his own award from his father, Prince Philip, in 1986, gave a speech and told attendees: 'It's really good to see you all here today, and particularly, congratulations to each and every one of you who have managed to achieve your gold DofE. 'This is for you, this is our recognition and celebration of your achievements. I hope that today is an excellent day for you and a real celebration for that.' Referring back to his youth when he began working towards his own award, he joked: 'I hope the experience of doing your award was a good one, that it was enjoyable. I'm guessing there were probably times when you were wondering why you were doing it, and if it was anything like mine that was probably about halfway through the expedition!' He added: 'But it's a great feeling when you get to the end and it's that feeling of pride and success in your achievement that we want to celebrate today and we want to capture.' Olympian and British and European record holder, Eilish McColgan, delivered a speech alongside Nerea Winchester, 18, from Glasgow, who celebrated her own gold award achievement. Ms McColgan said: 'There are many similarities between the DofE and my athletics club. Not just in the obvious areas like hard work and discipline, but that sense of community. Being surrounded by likeminded individuals, all striving to make themselves better. 'In 2011, I ran in my first ever live televised race. Dreaming of qualifying for the world championships. But with 600m to go. I heard a pop. I knew instantly I'd broken my foot. But me being me, and a typical stubborn Scot, I wasn't going to let a broken foot stop me. I kept running. 'Sadly, it wasn't the fairytale ending. Finishing the race came at a cost. A few days later the surgeon told me I'd never run professionally again but suggested I could 'hobby jog'. It was one of the toughest moments of my life, but like many of you on your DofE journeys, I'd learned the value of resilience, of showing up, and of not giving up when things get hard. 'I think if I didn't have my friends from the running club to distract me, my recovery would have looked very different. Instead, I really leant on my support network. Even when I couldn't run, I'd still go down to the track just to keep my motivation high. I truly believe that made a huge difference.' Nerea, also a DofE youth ambassador, volunteered for Oxfam for three years as part of the work towards earning her award. She said: 'Through my DofE sections, I found groups and niches of people who not only accepted my chatty, loud self, but embraced it fully. Without meeting these people through the DofE, I can't guarantee I would feel confident enough to unapologetically be myself. 'DofE gave me a purpose in life and let me express my creativity like never before. I never felt I was good at art or capable of creating it. 'However, when I picked up knitting for my DofE Skills section, I found an amazing creative outlet. It was challenging, but I learned to trust the process and, in doing so, built my resilience as well as rediscovering my creativity.' Speaking before he gave a speech to those attending, actor James Cosmo told the PA News Agency: 'If you are a parent listening out there, or a young person, you should really think about doing the DofE award. 'No matter what your circumstance is, there's something there to suit you and your future career, for your personal development, nothing beats it, it's fantastic.' He added: 'These people go through the bronze, silver and then gold and so a lot of the time they're doing voluntary work, nobody's paying much attention to them, they're just getting on with it and showing the dedication and stick ability. 'So it's nice at the end of it all, to recognise the effort they've made when clearly there was nobody there to cheer them on. They did it.'
