KATY’S SWEET CHERRY PIE
He starts his new job as Capital Breakfast host next week. But Roman Kemp’s parents, Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp and Pepsi & Shirlie star Shirlie Holliman, are so worried he will sleep in, they are on his case. Roman, 24, said: “Mum is texting at 9pm every night to check I’m in bed. It’s like I’m back at school.” My alarm is set for 6am on Tuesday to tune in. Cam & Joe Chart-topping dance duo Sigma are the first DJS to be invited to speak at Cambridge University. Ahead of Wednesday’s discussion on music education in schools, I caught up with Cameron Edwards... Life’s perplexing questions like: Is Kim Kardashian’s bum real? can finally be answered thanks to giffgaff money’s new translation service. Check it out. Fruity Katy Perry gave her fans a juicy treat as she handed out free cherry pies in New York’s Times Square. The stunt was to plug her saucy new single Bon Appétit,
While his movie debut Dunkirk is dropping in July, I can reveal the former One Direction fella is making music his priority.
This week he announced a world tour of intimate venues to support the release of his self-titled first album, kicking off in San Francisco on September 19.
A source in Harry Styles me spread like a buffet”, and hit the sweet spot as folk flocked for a mouthful. I hope there’s a van booked to dish out patties in a similar fashion when KP lands in Hull next month for Radio 1’s Big Weekend. Libertines singer Carl Barat marked the first recording of the telly show that gives indie music the chance to shine in true rock ’n’ roll style... by chucking a TV out of a window – and revealing plans for a Libertines hotel and a new album.
Meanwhile Martin Compston crowd-surfed as Slaves, Tom Grennan and DMAS entertained the crowd, well oiled by gallons of Red Stripe. And he reckons he’s launching his own range of Line Of Duty gnomes.
I’ll clear space in my garden.
The Sherlocks played to a sold-out crowd at London’s Electric on Wednesday. I left them doing shots, honing their rock ’n’ roll behaviour in time for their Kings of Leon support tour. Live For The Moment, their debut album, is out in August. The ink had barely dried on Brooklyn Beckham’s 18th birthday cards before he followed dad David and had a Native American tat and a camera inked on him. But he had boasted of his plans long ago to his pal, The Vamps guitarist James Mcvey.
James, whose single Middle Of The Night dropped on Friday, said: “When we first got to know Brooklyn a few years ago, he said he was going to get some tattoos.
“Then he went to LA for Easter and got them and didn’t tell me.”
And James believes Brooklyn, who starred in their Wake Up video, will be a top student when he moves to New York to study photography in September. He said: “He does work very hard.” They had the biggest-selling physical album this week with Tears On The Dancefloor – so Steps are feeling giddy. And since releasing on their own label, the royalties are all theirs. Ian ‘H’ Watkins said: “We’re directors of our own company so everything is our baby. We wanted to come back, uphold our legacy but do it in our own way.” Quite right too.