Country legend secretly pens tracks with Ella Henderson and hopes to take her Stateside

COUNTRY euphony prima Breland has worked with Shania Twain and Keith Urban, but helium is present helping idiosyncratic acold person to home.

The US singer-songwriter has revealed helium has written a bid of songs with Ella Henderson during sessions connected either broadside of the Atlantic.

In an exclusive chat, Breland, whose caller EP, Project 2024, came retired connected Friday, said: “I’ve written with Ella Henderson, who’s a large artist, and we whitethorn person thing coming that benignant of exists successful betwixt our 2 worlds.

“I went retired to her location and she besides took a travel retired to Nashville past spring.

“I was capable to drawback her successful the mediate of my circuit connected 1 of the days that I was backmost successful town.

“We’ve written a fewer songs astatine this point, and I conscionable deliberation she’s great.

“I’m looking guardant to much collabs with UK artists due to the fact that London is my favourite metropolis successful the world, and I decidedly americium readying to walk much clip retired there.”

His caller EP, featuring ridiculously catchy songs including What You’ve Been Through, was inspired by a travel to Selma, Alabama, wherever overmuch of his household is from.

And though it’s a mediocre area, helium was inspired by the citizens’ resilience.

He added of the music: “You mightiness deliberation that it’s gonna beryllium ace heavy.

“It’s conscionable much existent than what I’ve enactment retired before.

“The lyrics spell a small deeper, and the stories that I’m telling are each rooted successful existent experiences.”

Brit’s 4th clip lucky

She has been joined 3 times before, but this clip mightiness conscionable enactment retired for Britney Spears.

The Toxic vocalist wore this wedding garb arsenic she revealed she has tied the knot with . . . herself.

She made the announcement successful a video posted connected Instagram, 5 months aft settling her divorce with ex Sam Asghari.

And she wrote: “The time I joined myself . . . 

“Bringing it backmost due to the fact that it mightiness look embarrassing oregon stupid, but I deliberation it’s the astir superb happening I’ve ever done!!!”

It’s Hall to play for, Keith

Keith Richards was rocking retired again, aged 80, astatine a Country Music Hall of Fame knees-up.

I brought you each the goss yesterday arsenic Cher and Ozzy Osbourne were among those celebrated successful the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the pursuing evening it was clip for state euphony to person its moment.

The Rolling Stones fable performed astatine the lawsuit successful Nashville, arsenic American musicians Toby Keith, John Anderson, and James Burton were honoured.

Post Malone, Blake Shelton, Elvis Costello, and Emmylou Harris were among different guests.

Greg see-saws thing successful Liz

Rising prima Lizzie Esau has recovered a large instrumentality successful Radio 1 DJ Greg James.

The Newcastle-raised singer, who headlined the BBC Introducing Stage astatine Glastonbury this year, was introduced to Greg by North East DJ Shakk, who has championed her music.

After playing Lizzie’s way Bleak Sublime connected his vigor amusement this weekend, Greg and his listeners showered it with praise and besides christened Lizzie with a memorable nickname.

Greg said: “Oh I really, truly emotion this, truly emotion it. That is perfectly up my street, that is.

“It’s not conscionable maine who likes this, we person got a immense absorption to it. I’ll decidedly beryllium giving that different play.

“Lizzie Esau volition everlastingly beryllium known arsenic ‘Lizzie Esau – similar ‘see-saw’.”

“You’ve got to beryllium memorable, you’ve got to person a thing.”

I’ve had a perceive to the track, and I’m a fan.

Check retired Lizzie’s caller EP, Spilling Out the Truth, for more.

James a sucker for signifier dives

James Blunt’s euphony doesn’t shriek rock’n’roll – but helium reckons helium has the champion signifier dive successful the game.

The You’re Beautiful vocalist said helium has go a pro astatine jumping into the assemblage and does it astatine each show, contempt breaking his digit attempting it successful 2008.

Speaking to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with The National Lottery, James said: “That’s really a item of my concert. I bash a opus called OK and the assemblage conscionable really spell mad.

“The archetypal clip I did it was successful Barcelona. I ran towards the audience, I jumped, and the archetypal six rows of girls conscionable parted similar Moses and the Red Sea. I impaled connected the level and each my friends thought, ‘What an idiot’. So I’ve truly had to learn.

“I’ve breached my digit doing it, and I’ve had to enactment retired however to summon the assemblage unneurotic truthful they don’t driblet me.”

Richard to unfastened for Oasis

Richard Ashcroft has been confirmed arsenic enactment for Oasis connected the UK and Ireland limb of their circuit next summer.

The Verve frontman has had years of hits, and fixed that 1 of Oasis’ archetypal tours was arsenic the enactment enactment for Richard’s set successful 1993, it volition beryllium a nice full-circle moment.

Richard said: “As a instrumentality from time one, I was buzzing for galore reasons erstwhile the news of Oasis’ instrumentality was announced.

“The songwriting endowment of Noel, and Liam Gallagher’s axenic tone arsenic a pb singer, helped to animate maine to make immoderate of my champion work.

“It was the perfection of Live Forever that forced maine to constitute my own. They dared to beryllium great, made the dreams we had real.

“Now it’s clip to make much memories and I’m acceptable to bring it. See you adjacent summer. Music is power.”

ELO and goodbye for Jeff

Jeff Lynne’s ELO person announced their last ever show, headlining BST Hyde Park connected July 13 adjacent summer.

They person decided to usage the lawsuit to extremity connected a high, pursuing the passing of keyboardist Richard Tandy successful May.

Jeff said: “My instrumentality to touring began astatine Hyde Park successful 2014. It seems similar the cleanable spot to bash our last show. We couldn’t beryllium much excited to stock this peculiar nighttime successful London with our UK fans. As the opus goes, ‘We’re gonna bash it One More Time!’.”

In different breathtaking quality for euphony fans, Michael Bublé has confirmed a amusement astatine the Sandringham Estate successful Norfolk connected August 17 arsenic his lone amusement successful England for adjacent summer.

Ciara’s mighty good day

American popular stars Ciara and Kesha volition header the two-day Mighty Hoopla Festival erstwhile it returns to London adjacent spring.

The event, connected May 31 and June 1, volition instrumentality spot astatine South London’s Brockwell Park.

Other acts connected the line-up see JoJo, Daniel Bedingfield, Loreen, Kate Nash, Lemar, and Pixie Lott.

To lukewarm up for her set, Kesha volition play shows successful Glasgow and Manchester successful the week starring up to the popular extravaganza.

Kylie Minogue is acceptable to people her tenth No1 medium this Friday with Tension II.

She is outselling her nearest competition, Rag’n’Bone Man’s What Do You Believe In?, by a ratio of 2 to one. Meanwhile, One Direction person 5 albums heading for the Top 40 this week pursuing Liam Payne’s tragic passing.

These see Take Me Home, Midnight Memories, Made In The A.M., Four, arsenic good arsenic their debut grounds Up All Night.