Chrissie Hynde has shared her “private highlights” of 2024.
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The Pretenders frontman shared a complete record of her favorite issues of the 12 months and one in all them was seeing Taylor Swift carry out at London’s Wembley Stadium as a part of her ‘Eras’ tour over the summer season.
Itemizing her favorite reside present she mentioned the live performance was “lovely and provoking”. Hynde additionally drew consideration to Ukraine rock band Okean Elzy’s efficiency at The Discussion board within the capital.
She went on to hail Mark Lanegan‘s London tribute present earlier this month which she carried out at alongside Queens Of The Stone Age‘s Josh Homme, Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan and Primal Scream‘s Bobby Gillespie.
Hello All!
My finish of ’24 good needs to all. I at all times sit up for a brand new starting and right here we go. Thanks once more to all of you who got here to see us on tour.
In case anyone is – right here’s my private highlights of ’24: pic.twitter.com/ZageCvtpee
— Chrissie Hynde (@ChrissieHynde) December 30, 2024
The previous Screaming Bushes frontman, QOTSA collaborator, grunge icon and solo pioneer handed away in February 2022 on the age of 57.
Elsewhere, she praised the movie Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow.
She wrote: “I’ve seen it within the cinema 3 instances already. Attractive thriller. Positively one for the massive display. Breathtaking visuals and rather more.”
NME awarded the film 4 stars and mentioned: “Whereas Conclave isn’t a hardline take down of an establishment that has been beset by scandal this century, together with cover-ups of sexual abuse by monks, it does acknowledge that the Church has a lot to do to modernise.
“What outcomes is a movie that each works as a finely-tuned thriller and a meditation on the Church’s place in in the present day’s society. Extra sturdy than related movies like The Two Popes (2019) and We Have a Pope (2011), Conclave is an ideal winter hotter.”
Hynde just lately spoke out about asking that followers who buy tickets to a number of concert events don’t take up house within the entrance row so “native” followers have an opportunity to be up entrance.
The submit didn’t go down properly with followers, who took to social media to argue that followers who pay for freestanding tickets ought to be capable to watch the present from the entrance row in the event that they so please.
In response, she doubled-down on her stance: “The opposite factor I mentioned which appears to have triggered offence in some quarters is after I requested that anybody who has seen various exhibits, transfer again out of the entrance row and let the locals have the entrance.”
She continued: “I’ll reinstate that we like to see folks come again for extra, however we journey the world to play to a brand new viewers every night time, so it’s good to see the locals up entrance. Come every person… however be honest!”
Swift in the meantime, just lately wrapped her all-conquering ‘Eras’ World Tour with the ultimate present in Vancouver on December 8, the highest-grossing tour of 2024 – beating off competitors from Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Madonna and extra.
