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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lewis Capaldi Makes Emotional Return to Glastonbury With Surprise Set: ‘I'm F-king Back, Baby'
Lewis Capaldi delivered a powerful performance at Glastonbury on Friday (June 27), with a setlist that included his biggest hits and taste of his forthcoming new era. The Scottish singer-songwriter released his first single of 2025, 'Survive,' earlier in the day. The 35-minute set marked a momentous occasion for the 28-year-old. His last full show took place on the same stage at Glastonbury 2023, during which he struggled with a strained vocal cord and his Tourette's syndrome, which manifested in physical tics during most songs. More from Billboard Lewis Capaldi Plays Surprise Set at Tom Walker Charity Show, His First Performance Since 2023 Fans Choose KATSEYE's 'Beautiful Chaos' as This Week's Favorite New Music Olivia Rodrigo Brings Out The Cure's Robert Smith at Glastonbury 2025 Throughout his career, Capaldi has been open about his struggles with Tourette's syndrome, a condition of the nervous system that, according to the National Health Service, causes people to make sudden sounds or have involuntary body movements. In late 2022, he shared his diagnosis in an Instagram post, telling followers that he was 'learning new ways to cope all the time.' By summer the following year, Capaldi had canceled all of his other live commitments in order to focus on Glastonbury, citing mental health struggles as a 'direct symptom' of his job, which had spiraled into panic attacks. He addressed these issues on stage before finishing his set early due to his 'voice packing in.' After taking to the Pyramid Stage at 4:55 p.m. BST, Capaldi was met with chants of his name as he launched into 'Before You Go' and 'Grace' for the biggest crowd of the weekend so far. He was initially billed as a 'TBA' on the festival's schedule, though rumors soon spread through the festival site that Capaldi would be making his return. He discussed his journey back to the festival. 'It's so good to be back. I'm not gonna say much up here as I might start crying. It's amazing to be here with you and I can't thank you enough for coming out and seeing me,' he told the crowd. 'Second time's a charm with this one, eh? It's just a short set today and to finish what I couldn't finish the first time.' During the seven-song set, which included the debut performance of 'Survive,' he made clear how important the show was to him. 'The last three years haven't been the best — they've been difficult at times,' he said while choking up. '['Survive'] is about overcoming stuff, and this has been my f-king goal to get back here,' Capaldi said of the Pyramid Stage set. He rounded off the set with 'Forget Me' and 'Someone You Loved,' the latter of which is the U.K.'s most streamed song of all time, and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019. He ended the gig on a high-note, promising that 'I'm f–king back, baby' to a rapturous response. Writing on his Instagram at the end of the performance, Capaldi shared clips from the two shows and noted, 'it's so incredible to be back, thank you so much for having me.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lewis Capaldi Announces Dates For 2025 U.K./Ireland Tour Following Triumphant Glastonbury Return: ‘About Time I Got Back to Work'
Following his emotional set at the Glastonbury Festival on Friday (June 27), Lewis Capaldi is gearing up for a proper return to the stage later this year. The Scottish singer-songwriter who release his first single of the year, 'Survive,' before his triumphant comeback at the massive English fest announced the dates on Monday morning (June 30). The 28-year-old's first full set came two years after his last full show, also at Glastonbury, in 2023, during which he struggled with a strained vocal cord and symptoms of Tourette's syndrome, which caused a series of physical tics during the set; Capaldi has been open about his struggles with Tourette's, which can manifest through involuntary body movements and vocalizations. The upcoming run of September shows is slated to kick off on Sept. 7 at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield and will including a pair of show's at London's O2 Arena on Sept. 17 and 18. More from Billboard Lewis Capaldi Makes Emotional Return to Glastonbury With Surprise Set: 'I'm F-king Back, Baby' Early Black Sabbath Recordings Under Name Earth to be Issued as 'The Legendary Lost Tapes' Charli xcx Claps Back at 'Boomer Comments' Criticizing Use of AutoTune During Glastonbury Performance: 'Yawn' The 2025 gigs come after Capaldi canceled all of his other live shows to focus on the 2023 Glasto set, citing mental health struggles as a 'direct symptom' of his occupation, which he said at the timehad advanced to a series of panic attacks. 'About time I got back to work… hope to see you out there,' Capaldi wrote on Instagram alongside a video announcing the fall 2025 shows, which he said will be his only live appearances in the U.K., Ireland and Europe this year. A pre-sale for the gigs will open at 9 a.m. U.K. time on July 8. Capaldi seemed in good spirits during the 35-minute, seven-song Glastonbury set, which included the live debut of 'Survive,' as well as his hits 'Forget Me' and 'Someone You Loved.' Check out the dates for Capaldi's 2025 U.K./Ireland tour below. Sept. 7: Sheffield, U.K. @ Utilita Arena Sept. 11: Aberdeen, Scotland @ P&J Live Sept. 13: Glasgow, Scotland @ OVO Hydro Sept. 17: London, U.K. @ The O2 Sept. 18: London, U.K. @ The O2 Sept. 20: Manchester, U.K. @ Co-Op Live Sept. 23: Birmingham, U.K. @ Utilita Arena Sept. 26: Nottingham, U.K. @ Motorpoint Arena Sept. 27: Cardiff, Wales @ Utilita Arena Sept. 29: Dublin, Ireland @ 3 ArenaBest of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Dublin Live
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Dublin Live
Lewis Capaldi says 'time he gets back to work' as he announces Dublin return
Singer Lewis Capaldi has said he feels it is "about time I got back to work" after he announced a UK and Ireland tour after a two-year hiatus. The Survive hitmaker took a break after he struggled to manage his Tourette Syndrome symptoms during a Glastonbury performance. But he made his return to the stage at Glastonbury over the weekend, telling fans: "I'm back, baby". Now the Scottish hitmaker has announced a UK and Ireland tour for later this year and is set to play Dublin's 3Arena on September 29, with tickets going on sale on July 10 at 9am. Announcing the tour on social media, he said it is "about time I got back to work", adding to his fans "hope to see you out there". Skye Newman and Aaron Rowe will be his support acts in Dublin. Along with Dublin, Capaldi's tour will include shows in Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and two performances in London. Prices will range from €30 up to €158.25, subject to a 12.5 per cent service charge per ticket, up to a maximum of €10.50. The news comes after Capaldi played a triumphant surprise set at Glastonbury on Friday 27 July, two years after a performance at the festival during which he struggled to manage his Tourette Syndrome symptoms. Capaldi marked his Glastonbury return by performing hits such as Before You Go, Grace, Hold Me While You Wait, Bruises, Forget Me, a first live showing of Survive, and Someone You Loved. He told the crowd at Glastonbury: "It's so good to be back. I'm not going to say much up here today, because if I do, I think I will probably start crying. "But it's just amazing to be here with you all, and I can't thank you all enough for coming out and coming and seeing me." Capaldi performed a 35-minute set on the Pyramid Stage and while introducing his new song, he became visibly emotional as he said: "The last two years haven't been the best for me. It's been difficult at times." "This has been my f****** goal, to get back here," he added. Join our Dublin Live breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link to receive your daily dose of Dublin Live content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. For all the latest news from Dublin and surrounding areas visit our homepage.
Irish Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Lewis Capaldi says it's 'time he gets back to work' as he announces Irish return
Singer Lewis Capaldi has said he feels it is "about time I got back to work" after he announced a UK and Ireland tour after a two-year hiatus. The Survive hitmaker took a break after he struggled to manage his Tourette Syndrome symptoms during a Glastonbury performance. But he made his return to the stage at Glastonbury over the weekend, telling fans: "I'm back, baby". Now the Scottish hitmaker has announced a UK and Ireland tour for later this year and is set to play Dublin's 3Arena on September 29, with tickets going on sale on July 10 at 9am. Announcing the tour on social media, he said it is "about time I got back to work", adding to his fans "hope to see you out there". Skye Newman and Aaron Rowe will be his support acts in Dublin. Along with Dublin, Capaldi's tour will include shows in Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and two performances in London. Prices will range from €30 up to €158.25, subject to a 12.5 per cent service charge per ticket, up to a maximum of €10.50. The news comes after Capaldi played a triumphant surprise set at Glastonbury on Friday 27 July, two years after a performance at the festival during which he struggled to manage his Tourette Syndrome symptoms. Capaldi marked his Glastonbury return by performing hits such as Before You Go, Grace, Hold Me While You Wait, Bruises, Forget Me, a first live showing of Survive, and one of his most popular songs, Someone You Loved. He told the crowd at Glastonbury: "It's so good to be back. I'm not going to say much up here today, because if I do, I think I will probably start crying. "But it's just amazing to be here with you all, and I can't thank you all enough for coming out and coming and seeing me." Capaldi performed a 35-minute set on the Pyramid Stage and while introducing his new song, he became visibly emotional as he said: "The last two years haven't been the best for me. It's been difficult at times." "This has been my f****** goal, to get back here," he added.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
I Always Knew I Was Different. Still, I Was Shocked To Hear My Doctor Say These 4 Words To Me.
One particularly stressful day a few years ago, while driving to an important work event, I was seized with a severe bout of tics. This was not unusual for me. I'd been ticcing nearly all my life, and stress always exacerbated my tics. On this day, my snorts and jerks were so out of control that I rear-ended a car. That's when I finally visited a neurologist. I needed to know, literally, what made me tic. What he told me — 'You have Tourette syndrome' — came as a shock. It was also a relief. For as long as I can remember, I've had the characteristic vocal and motor tics associated with the condition. Secreting them away in my mental lockbox, burying them well out of sight of others, was how I dealt with them. A diagnosis brought clarity, and it meant that I could deal with my tics in a healthier way — or so I thought. I grew up in a small western New York town in the 1980s, those heady days of ozone-depleting hairspray, goofy mullets, and syrupy synth pop. In my rural community, very few people knew what Tourette was. I certainly didn't. When I was a teenager, a television program, possibly 60 Minutes, aired an episode on the subject that I watched with my mom. It featured a young man who shouted obscenities in some large American city. By that time I'd been ticcing for years — in fact, I'd already been hiding my tics for years. But I didn't recognize myself in this program, because never, not once, did I swear or shout in public. When I was in elementary school, a teacher once stopped class to tell me to quit making noises and 'doing that thing you're doing with your head.' She actually demonstrated 'that thing' in front of my classmates because I was apparently annoying her and disrupting her lesson. Every head turned my way, and I put mine down, humiliated. I could not tell her that I couldn't help myself. Related: If You Don't Pass This Extremely Easy Hygiene Test, You're Officially Stinkier Than The Average Human In birding, there's something called a 'spark bird' — the bird that, when you first see it in the wild, truly gets you hooked on birding. But this was my spark moment, when I realized my tics were not 'normal' and that I needed to hide them if I wanted to be normal. If my mom made any connection between that kid we saw on TV and me, she didn't mention it, and my parents didn't take me to a neurologist to have me checked out. Because of that TV program, I assumed, wrongly, that having Tourette meant shouting obscenities in public. I learned that this version of Tourette is called coprolalia and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it 'only affects about 1 in 10 people with Tourette.' It is not as common as popular media likes to portray it. For me, ticcing has always meant a near-constant urge to do things with my body. 'Urge' may not be the right word for these head jerks, blinks, snorts, grunts, throat clearings, tongue clicks, etc., but it's the best I've got. From the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep, my body seems to have a will of its own. In any given hour, I probably tic at least 100 times. During periods of great stress, like when I rear-ended that car, my tics are like a parasitic fungus that assumes total control over my body. Nobody wants to twitch or make weird noises in public — to be the person people crane their necks to see. What's wrong with this guy? you imagine them thinking. After getting called out by my teacher, I only wanted to blend in — to become invisible — because when you're in elementary school, you don't want to be seen as a freak. You want to be like everyone else. I couldn't stop ticcing, but I discovered that I could make it less obvious. To shield myself from shame and embarrassment, I developed an arsenal of tic-hiding strategies. Instead of jerking my head, I would put my hand underneath the table and waggle my fingers or ball my fists repeatedly. Instead of snorting or chuffing — obvious and strange sounds — I'd click my tongue softly, like an irregular metronome. These tricks satisfied my near-constant urge to tic and kept me mostly hidden from view. I wasn't bullied or teased in school, as kids and adults with tics often are, but I probably would have been if I hadn't learned how to control my tics. I've been using these tricks ever since. When I'm out in public today, I'm keenly aware of my internal pressure to tic, but I've become adept at suppressing it, bottling it up and capping it tight. At home, where I'm free to be myself, it's a very different story. My tics come and go. Six months ago, I began squirting air from my mouth the way someone might blow hair off their face; a few weeks later, I started hocking as though to spit a loogie. Like uninvited guests overstaying their welcome, both tics remain with me as I write these words. Sometimes a particular tic will go away only to return a year later, like an exasperating big brother who'd gone off to college and come home with a sly grin and a shaggy beard. Related: It Turns Out That Most People Wipe Their Butts Completely Wrong, But This Doctor Is Here To Teach Us The Right Way There is no cure for Tourette — all you can do is try to manage your tics. There are treatments available, ranging from antihypertensives like guanfacine and clonidine to alternative options like the antipsychotic drugs risperidone and Abilify. But I'd honestly rather have tics than the potential side effects these drugs can cause. When I was first diagnosed, I tried guanfacine and I'd wake up in the middle of the night so parched that it was like I'd swallowed sand; my sleeplessness felt more like a punishment, especially since the drug didn't even control my tics, so I quit taking the pill. Since then, I've chosen no other treatments, though I recently learned of a promising option I will try called 'comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics,' or CBIT. This doesn't involve any drugs. Instead, it trains you to change your behaviors and tic less. Researchers estimate that between 350,000 and 450,000 Americans have Tourette syndrome, while roughly 1 million have other persistent tic disorders. There's said to be insufficient evidence to determine the number of adults with Tourette because many people simply outgrow their tics by late adolescence. According to the Tourette Association of America, the condition 'occurs in 1 in 160 (0.6%) school-aged children, although it is estimated that 50% are going undiagnosed' (italics mine). A 2022 survey by the group suggested that 1 in 10 children with a tic disorder 'attempted suicide at least once during the past 12 months.' That's a scary number, and it speaks to how difficult it is for many people with tics to feel comfortable in their own bodies. I'm glad that kids (and their parents) who are diagnosed with Tourette today now have resources available to them — including a supportive community — to feel less stigmatized or ostracized by this awkward thing in their lives. I did not outgrow my tics. Because it's hard to admit publicly something I've always internalized and associated with shame, few people know this part of me. Even if you're not bullied or harassed, hurt and humiliation run deep; they form scars that are easily scraped off. How many other adults fly under the radar, as I do? Who, like me, never outgrew their tics but developed strategies for concealing them? Who didn't benefit from services that the Tourette Association of America offers, or the wealth of research being done today? Who struggled to form truly lasting friendships for fear of being exposed as someone with tics? Apart from the nuisance of having tics, I live what society would likely deem a 'good' and 'regular' life. I have a wife, a child, a great job, a house, and a creative life as a writer and translator. I have Tourette, but Tourette doesn't have me — though my wife would certainly disagree with this. When we got together 25 years ago, I suppressed my tics in front of her, but you can't hide something like this from someone you live with. I no longer try. Even on those nights when my ticcing body keeps her up, she's supportive. Since I've spent a lifetime hiding my tics, I've become successful at blending in, even when I'm meeting people for work or on stage in front of an audience, giving a reading or interviewing authors. But I've also experienced moments of deep loneliness. Retreating into yourself is a good way to not be publicly embarrassed, but you pay a price. Eventually, you end up feeling like a ghost in your own life — known to no one but yourself and a few carefully curated individuals whom you trust. I don't make friends easily. Later this year, I will publish my debut novel, The Book of Losman, after translating more than a dozen novels from Danish and writing countless unsold manuscripts over the past 30 years. It's about a literary translator, like me, with Tourette, but that's where the similarities end. It's a speculative fiction about a man named Losman who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, and gets involved in an experimental drug study to relive childhood memories in the hope of finding a cure for his Tourette. Why not? The beauty of fiction is that you can imagine anything you want, provided the world you create is believable. In real life, I can't go back in time to reassure the little kid who got called out in elementary school, but I'm old enough to understand something he couldn't: 'Normal' is a highly subjective word, one laced with many assumptions. At nearly 50 years old, my tics (and the need to control them) are ingrained in the very fabric of my being. Even after publishing this essay, I will continue to hide my tics in public. Why? The stigma is a great burden. The line between dignity and humiliation is, in the end, a thin one — at least for me. I truly admire those in the younger generation, who can go on TikTok or YouTube and put themselves out there for the world to see. That's not for me. But by sharing my story here, what I can do is help normalize Tourette and other tic disorders. People like me, we're all around you. All that we ask for is what every human being deserves: to live a judgment-free life. K.E. Semmel is a writer and translator of more than a dozen novels from Danish and Norwegian. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ontario Review, Literary Hub, The Writer's Chronicle, The Southern Review, The Washington Post and elsewhere. 'The World and Varvara' by Simon Fruelund is his most recent translation. His debut novel, 'The Book of Losman,' was published in October 2024 (Santa Fe Writers Project). Find him online at and on his Twitter/X page, @KESemmel. This article originally appeared on HuffPost in June 2024. Also in Goodful: This Woman Is Going Viral For Begging Women Not To Get Married Right Now, And Personally, I Couldn't Agree More Also in Goodful: People Are Sharing Their Biggest "How Doesn't Everyone Know This?" Facts, And I'm Honestly Embarrassed I Never Realized Some Of These Also in Goodful: "I Thought This Was Normal": People Are Sharing Diagnoses They Received After Someone Else Pointed Out Their Symptoms
