It has been a big week on the music scene for Belfast, as former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher and his band the high flying birds kicked off their tour in Odyssey Arena on Tuesday night.
This year’s Tennent's Vital line-up is shaping up to be a musical collective, with long-time collaborators Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding having worked with the rest of the bill throughout their careers – Calvin Harris’ successful recordings with John Newman are proven chart successes, while BURNS featured on the re-release of Ellie Goulding’s album and secured a coveted support slot on Harris’ UK tour. John Newman, Disciples and Burns have also been added to the line-up for the summer event at Boucher Road Playing Fields. If trends continue, I can personally foresee someone actually being killed in the political furor before the November election - and Ellie Goulding, despite not being from America, may be able to see the warning signs better than a large number of Americans.Ellie Goulding is set to join headline act superstar DJ Calvin Harris at this year's Tennent's Vital on Saturday, August 29. We see further examples every day, with seemingly every Trump rally drawing more and more protesters like those in San Diego this evening. So for PokePro101 to effectively tell her to butt out - and for a tabloid in her home country to call her out for exercising her own freedom of speech - reflects poorly on our society's overall ability to debate issues and politics without resorting to personal attacks. Goulding may not be a United States citizen, but given the possible ramifications of what a Trump presidency could do to the stability of our country's international relations, she has just as much right as anyone else to be concerned. But perhaps is another example of just how the 2016 presidential election has exposed the deep divisions within America.
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