1 hour ago Music legend Fay Fife launches crowdfounder to make second Countess of Fife album

Punk legend Fay Fife has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pave the way to recording a second album with her new band.

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2 hours ago Behind the scenes of Classically Black: the event championing black British people in classical music

This one-night takeover of King’s Place aims to put black musicians and composers front and centre

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4 hours ago ‘The case became a witch hunt’: how ‘killer nurse’ Daniela Poggiali fought to clear her name

Italy’s ‘angel of death’ was imprisoned and demonised by the press before her convictions were overturned. Now the expert who came to her defence has turned his attention to Lucy Letby’s case‘It was a terrible sensation when I heard the sentence: life.” It was 11 March 2016 and Daniela Poggiali had just been confirmed as Italy’s “angel of death”. Less than 18 months after she had first been arrested, in October 2014, the nurse was now the country’s most infamous killer, convicted of killing one elderly patient and suspected of dozens of other murders.“I struggled to rationalise it,” she says, “I just thought they were grabbing a crab.” (This is a curious Italian phrase that roughly translates as doing something irrational or idiotic.) Continue reading...

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4 hours ago The 20 most underrated albums ranked, from Swamp Dogg’s Rat On! to Kirsty McColl’s Kite

Vast swathes of our favourite records have somehow been passed over, unfairly dismissed or left to languish unjustly in the critical mid-table, from the little-heard cult gems to the guilty pleasures. Mark Beaumont and Roisin O’Connor pick their favourites

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5 hours ago Sunburn: Why Asia’s biggest electronic dance music festival still doesn’t have a venue

Tickets are already on sale and the festival is supposed to be just over two months away, but organisers for Sunburn 2024 are facing stiff opposition from locals in Goa who fear it will bring drugs, noise pollution and environmental damage. Shahana Yasmin reports

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8 hours ago SARAH VINE: In a world where poor Britney is still dancing on Instagram in her underwear, this must be a wake up call for the music industry

The sad tale of Liam Payne is as old as showbiz itself. A fresh-faced youngster, full of dreams of stardom and riches, whose meteoric rise is matched only by his fall from grace.

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9 hours ago GP surgeries should stop hiring physician associates and phase out cut

The union revealed members of its General Practitioners Committee had voted in favour of the ban amid concerns over patient safety.

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10 hours ago HS2 high speed trains to Euston will be 'most comfortable' on UK rail network with 87cm of legroom

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to confirm in the Budget that HS2 will run to Euston

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10 hours ago The crisis facing Australian live music is older and bigger than just Live Nation

A recent Four Corners investigation into the entertainment behemoth was long overdue – but the industry has been bleeding out for decadesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI watched Four Corners’ investigation Music for Sale on Monday with some anticipation. The program was an overdue reckoning for Live Nation and Ticketmaster – the international entertainment behemoth, which has long faced accusations of abusing its market power by buying out venues, booking agencies, touring companies and merchandise manufacturers.The program finished to the soundtrack of Midnight Oil’s Forgotten Years – singer Peter Garrett was a prominent interviewee – playing over a nostalgic montage of some of this country’s most celebrated musicians on stage. Many artists, we were told, were too afraid to...

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