Scene and Heard: Entertainment news making headlines this week

MUSIC NEWS: It’s 50 years since Queen were formed and the British band are to be honoured with a series of 13 stamps from the Royal Mail. Pictures of band members and album covers will adorn the stamps which to on sale on July 8.

Meanwhile, Michael Stipe popped up on the Tonight Show in the US earlier this week performing a song with Big Red Machine, the side-project of the likes of The National’s Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Cork gig-goers may remember an early Red Machine gig at St Luke’s in 2018.