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Nylon
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Nylon
Final artists unveiled for Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix
With the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2025 less than 3 months away, the final line-up of the artistes have been unveiled, ready to provide you with action not just on the track but also every corner of the Circuit Park. Lewis Capaldi. Image courtesy of Singapore GP. Clean Bandit. Image courtesy of Singapore GP. Joining already announced headliners are multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated Scottish Singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi, who will be performing at the Zone 4 Padang Stage on 5 October, and Grammy-winning electronic music sensation Clean Bandit, who will be bringing their dance beats to the Zone 1 Wharf Stage on 3 October. Melanie C. Image courtesy of Singapore GP. Pete Tong. Image courtesy of Singapore GP. Maisie Peters. Image courtesy of Singapore GP. Haley Reinhart. Image courtesy of Singapore GP. The Naked and Famous. Image courtesy of Singapore GP. In addition to this, don't miss DJ sets by Melanie C and Pete Tong at the Sunset Stage, rising pop prodigy Maisie Peters at the Downtown stage, soulful songstress Haley Reinhart at the Sail Stage, and indie duo The Naked and Famous at the Wharf Stage. Along with the great entertainment, you'll also get to enjoy a line-up of activities across ten stages and entertainment zones, and get to know your favourite drivers at the Formula 1 Fan Forum held at the Wharf Stage in Zone 1, as well as the F1 Academy Fan Forum at the DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre at Esplanade in Zone 4. Only a limited number of single-day tickets remain available for sale at and via official resellers. For more information, click here.
The Spinoff
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
The Fold: Why festivals are failing as live music is booming
Campbell Smith joins Duncan Greive to discuss the current state of live music, while explaining his decision to wind down his management career, and his involvement with the campaign to turn Western Springs into a permanent music venue. Campbell Smith trained as a lawyer, but was quickly drawn into the music business. He started out offering advice on bFM, then began representing artists like Brooke Fraser and The Naked and Famous. Then came his first promotional gig – running one of the country's most iconic festivals in the Big Day Out. At the same time he represented recorded music rights holders in a doomed battle against music downloading in the Napster era. He joins Duncan Greive to reflect on all this and discuss the current state of live music, while explaining his decision to wind down his management career, and his involvement with the campaign to turn Western Springs into a permanent music venue.
The Spinoff
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
The DJ-free zombie station that grew out of the corpse of Today FM is… actually good?
Channel X proves people don't want to hear news, sport, weather, or generally anything that reminds them of human existence in the last 20 years. The last human sound to play on Today FM was a sob. Presenter Tova O'Brien had just accused her bosses of killing the station without ever giving it a chance. A sad heave was audible as the intro to 'Young Blood' by The Naked and Famous came on, its synths drowning out the tears. The musical takeover was a harbinger of things to come. A few months later, Today FM was replaced by Channel X, a DJ-free zombie station devoted entirely to tracks from the late-90s to early-2000s, aka the Millennial-Gen X Nostalgia Zone. Its only voice breaks are ads, several of which seem to be unpaid musings from an unnamed MediaWorks employee. 'Channel X does endorse Bluey this school holidays,' said one recent entry. 'We do not endorse Ms Rachel.' I accidentally found the station during one of my car radio's periodic nervous breakdowns. It spun haphazardly through the wavelengths near the Greville Rd motorway off-ramp, eventually finding purchase on 106.2FM just as The Verve Pipe's Brian Vander Ark started Creed-voicing angstily about stopping a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice in 1996 hit 'The Freshmen'. Replacing a well-funded talk radio brand with a literal playlist is the kind of thing a media company does when it's slowly shrivelling into oblivion. But since that moment by the Albany poo ponds, Channel X has been one of my go-tos. Indications are I'm not alone. One of Channel X's latest ads calls it 'New Zealand's fastest-growing radio station'. In the second commercial radio ratings survey for 2024, it registered a 4.8% audience share in the 18-34 age bracket, and 4.3% in the 25-54 demographic. Today FM only registered a 1.4% overall market share in 2023. An informal survey of The Spinoff's predominantly Millennial and Xennial workforce would suggest those numbers are continuing to grow. Several staff members have admitted to being Channel Xers. 'It's replaced Radio NZ in my car,' said one high-ranking Spinoffer. 'Sorry.' No need to apologise. I don't listen to RNZ either, and most especially not that putrid show Mediawatch. I'm too busy vibing to 'Truly Madly Deeply' by Savage Garden on Onewa Rd. It's hard to say why. Channel X really has no right working as well as it does. Every streaming service on Earth offers basically the exact same product. If I want to listen to late-90s to early-2000s hits all I have to do is fire up The Cranberries or The Killers radio on Spotify. But there's something joyless in these services' ruthless hyper-targeting of revealed preference. Ironically, MediaWorks' most human-free station is more listenable because it still retains a trace of humanity. It works because it sometimes doesn't work. There are curveballs, duds, and most importantly, surprises. You might have to sit through a violent bout of Avicii, but it's worth it to spontaneously revisit a song you've barely thought about since the ride to your sixth form ball. The model appears to be catching on. Last month, Channel X's rival NZME station Gold FM dropped its presenters to become music-only. The trend will likely accelerate as cash-strapped media companies look for ways to reduce overheads on pointless things like 'paying to keep human beings alive'. Channel X may be the first horseman of the radio apocalypse, its pitiless scythe sweeping down upon Jono and Ben, Matty McLean, fill-in drive host Matilda Green, Clint and Bree, and in a great blackening final blow that portends the end of all things, Simon Barnett. But for now, it's a refreshing break from the modern world; a Millennial nirvana where our aging brains can once more approximate that peerless feeling of hearing a great song you don't have on CD crackling down the radio waves. This isn't Coast FM or the Breeze, where the need for audience growth has resulted in horrendous decade-mixing mashups of Third Eye Blind and Rod Stewart. The year is specifically 1998, and you're in your mum's car listening to ZM. Soon you'll snap out of the nostalgic daze. But when that music is playing, no one can hear you sob.
