ED SHEERAN: Something Horrible Is Brewing
Ed Sheeran plans to leave his guitar behind when he steps in front of the camera later this summer for an acting role he describes as "really, really dark."
The ginger-haired singer, who has said he'd love a guest spot on Game of Thrones, tells Britain's Sun, "I have an acting job coming out after July. I can't say too much about it because the pilot just got picked up, which is good, but it's a TV show. It's a medieval TV show and it's really, really dark. It's gruesome and it's going to be fine because my friend wrote it."
This isn't the singer's first foray into acting: he had a cameo on the British soap opera Home and Away earlier this year.
PUMPKINS, MANSON: Tour Starts Tuesday
The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson kick off their co-headline tour Tuesday in Concord, California.
Even though Billy Corgan and Manson have said they don't see The End Times Tour as a '90s nostalgia-fest, it could be seen that way, especially with the return of original Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.
Corgan predicts that long-time fans of both acts will "get a great show, it won’t be a surprise to those fans." He does want to surprise those who are casual listeners, or have written the veteran acts off. Corgan says this tour will "show people we’re still very capable of causing a lot of trouble”
SPOON: They Want My Cards
Spoon are going for an untapped market when it comes to their latest piece of merchandise -- professional gamblers.
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he band have a pack of playing cards inspired by the artwork on They Want My Soul. The band posted a picture with two of the members holding the cards on their Facebook page. The image was originally intended as part of They Want My Soul's packaging, but ended up getting cut from the final version.
The deck, which you can buy now from Spoon's webstore, contains 56 cards -- the standard 52 cards, two R.I.P. cards (instead of Jokers), one two-tone double-backed card and a 4 that includes all four suits.
