The 1975 beat the likes of Coldplay, Bastille and Bowie to take home the prize for Best Album at the Q Awards last night. Bowie’s final album ‘Blackstar’ had been nominated but the accolade went to The 1975’s ‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It’. The award should have be taken off them, if for nothing else, for the name of that bloody album! U2 picked up two awards – one for Best Live Act and the Gibson Les Paul award went to The Edge. Muse were named ‘Best Act in the World Today and Bastille’s  song ‘Good Grief’ won Best Track!
Congratulations are in order! Kathryn Thomas is engaged! Woohoo! Her other half Padraig McLoughlin got down on one knee this weekend while the couple were staying at the luxurious Ballyfin House in Laois. But, it wasn’t all romance – she said the proposal came when she was in her dressing gown with her hair scraped back eating a packet of peanuts! Padraig chose a classic princess cut ring and Kathryn says it’s absolutely perfect!
Forbes Magazine have released their list of Highest Earning Celebs and surprise surprise, Taylor Swift is the highest-paid woman in music, smashing her competition with earnings of $170m. She earned more than double her nearest competitor Adele who came second on list with $80.5m. Swift made most of her money from her world tour and her marketing deals with Diet Coke and Apple helped too! She did work for her money though – she played nearly twice as many dates as competitors like Adele and Rihanna during the period and managed to fill stadiums all the way
Irish Fans of Narcos will be happy! A third date has been added to Capturing Pablo - An Evening with Steve Murphy & Javier Pena, the DEA agents who hunted down drug lord Pablo Escobar. The men, who inspired ‘Narcos’ the massive Netflix hit which tells the story of Colombia’s drug cartel and Escobar’s fight to stay no.1 in the drugs trade, had already announced that they’d be coming to Dublin on 13th and 14th of December but they’d added Dec 12th to the run too.
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