Monday 02 June 2025.

Monday 02 June 2025. Radio 2 in the Park 2025 will be heading to Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September and, as announced on today's Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, Bryan Adams will headline Saturday night and Def Leppard - with an exclusive UK performance for 2025 – will headline Sunday night at this year's event. The weekend line-up is below... Plus, back by popular demand and following its debut at Radio 2 in the Park in Preston last year, there will be a Friday night DJ party to kick things off - featuring sets from Radio 2 presenters Vernon Kay, Scott Mills, Rylan, DJ Spoony and Michelle Visage - ahead of a weekend packed with stellar live performances. Radio 2 in the Park, the station's annual flagship live music festival, is a three-day music juggernaut featuring performances from some of the world's biggest pop stars alongside DJ sets on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday from the station's much-loved presenters. Tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday 4th June, at 8.30am at www.bbc.co.uk/radio2inthepark (along with full terms and conditions). Tickets to the Radio 2 in the Park Pre-Party on Friday are £32 (plus booking fee). Tickets for the Saturday and Sunday are priced from £63 (plus booking fee). Listeners and viewers will be able to catch all the action live throughout the weekend on Radio 2, BBC Sounds and iPlayer. The line-up is: Saturday 6th September · Bryan Adams · Belinda Carlisle · Ronan Keating · Jessie J · Kid Creole & The Coconuts · Marti Pellow · Ella Henderson · Stereophonics Sunday 7th September · Def Leppard · Anastacia · Soul II Soul · Suede · Louise · David Gray · Sophie Ellis-Bextor The festival is held on the site where i went to several V Festival events in the past. ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Sunday 01 June 2025. THE WATERBOYS live at The Roundhouse. They play their second show here, as the Saturday show sold out....As part of their UK tour to promote their sixteenth studio album,' Life, Death And Dennis Hopper' , which was released on 4 April 2025. I have seen them several times before , with the first time in 1984 when they supported U2 at Brixton Academy. ------------- I catch a couple of songs by support act SUGARFOOT. They had some nice harmonies, and you could see why Mike Scott brought them on for a few songs with The Waterboys. THE WATERBOYS arrived on stage at 8.30pm and played for 2 hours 5 mins. For the first two tracks , we have a nice surprise of NEAL X rockin' out with them , with his usual guitar moves. The overall sound is fantastic , as Mikes guitar and the two keyboard players (including Keytar) make a glorious big sound that sounds amazing when played at full tilt . We get some big tacks at the start then the middle section is around a dozen tracks from their recent Dennis Hopper album , and then the lots of biggies for the last 30 mins. The band are bonkers but brilliant. Yep, it’s pretty crazy to pen 25 songs about the Easy Rider icon, ( including one that features a certain Mr Springsteen), but this is a band that boasts a melting pot of soul, funk, rock and folk and aren’t afraid to go a little crazy. For the middle hour or so, the gig becomes more of a musical with informative interludes as Scott navigates the story of Hopper’s interesting and surprisingly ingrained involvement at a tipping point in popular culture, along with Dennis Hopper images on screen. While sadly there are no songs about Hopper’s stint on 24 or his guest appearance on a Gorillaz album, seemingly everything else is covered. His friendship with countercultural polymath Andy Warhol is documented in the lilting Bacharach bossa nova of A Guy Like You (Andy). The gentle, piano-led saunter Michelle (Always Stay) laments Hopper’s eight-day marriage to Mamas & Papas singer Michelle Phillips. Golf, They Say begins with the sweetly satisfying thwack of a golf ball before a brisk melody details Hopper’s time teeing off with country legend and ardent linksman Willie Nelson. Things get even sillier when Scott adopts a Pathe News-esque British dialect for the propulsive, rock-drenched groove of Transcendental Peruvian Blues (yes, really). Equally as eccentric is Blues For Terry Southern (again, yes really), a swaying ode to the man who co-wrote Easy Rider but never saw a dime from the profits. It was a great show. Highlights included . .. Glastonbury Song Medicine Bow This is the Sea Dont Bang The Drum A Girl Called Johnny The Pan Within Encore : The Whole of The Moon ( which was mega) Fisherman's Blues

Posted 2nd June 2025