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Kay Bateman obituary | The Fall

Other livesThe FallObituaryKay Bateman obituaryMy friend Kay Bateman, otherwise known as Kay Carroll, who has died of lung cancer aged 71, was the first manager of Mark E Smith’s band, the Fall. Although few women held such roles in the 1970s, she fearlessly took on musicians, rowdy audiences and industry moguls. A recording of a telephone conversation – posted on YouTube – captures her caustically scolding the Factory Records boss, Tony Wilson: “You’re pirating my bloody stuff, Tony!

New Interior Secretary Rides A Horse To First Day On The Job

Newly minted Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke knows how to make an entrance: He arrived at his first day of work in Washington on the back of a horse named Tonto. Zinke rode the horse — a bay roan gelding just over 17 hands tall — less than a mile, from the National Park Service's stables on the National Mall to the Department of the Interior. The former congressman's equine entrance alluded to both his own Montana upbringing, and to Theodore Roosevelt, who expanded the National Park Service significantly during his presidency.

We Werent Supposed to Hear Bo Burnham Like This

Bo Burnham in Inside. In the final 15 minutes of Make Happy, the 2016 special from stand-up and singer-songwriter Bo Burnham, the Massachusetts native appears to figure his whole thing out: “I try to make my show about other things, but it always ends up being about performing.” What follows is a quick riff on millennials and performance, how we were raised to prize self-expression, and how social media and modern advertising have encouraged and exacerbated our tendency to want to be heard, whether we have anything of value to say or not.

Where In The World Would You Like To Fly With KLM From Cardiff?

Did you try out our KLM questionnaire & find your dream destination from Cardiff? Then listen to Heart Breakfast tomorrow as you be the winner of a pair of flights there PLUS £1000! KLM offer three daily services from Cardiff Airport to Amsterdam, where you can easily connect to hundreds of destinations worldwide. So where in the world would be your ultimate destination, are you a city slicker, beach bum or backpacker type of traveller?

Pleasure P Calls Out Rolling Stone Singers List for Snubbing Anita Ba

Play video content IT'S A SNUB Pretty Ricky vocalist Pleasure P isn't letting Rolling Stone's hot button 200 Best Singers list screw with his emotions -- mainly because it's missing one of his favs ... Anita Baker!!! We caught Pleasure P out at LAX Tuesday ... and he tells us the worst snub in his eyes was the incomparable AB ... the Grammy-winning singing legend who has famously boasted a three octave range.