6 h. ago Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘People think music was better in the old days, to which I say: bollocks!’

The drummer for the Britpop band on why Oasis aren’t his nemesis, his failed bid to become a UK Labour MP and how he finally conquered mathsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYou’ve just put out a coffee table book of photographs of your early years with Blur. I imagine you didn’t have too many expectations at the time. Why had you stopped taking photos by the time the band blew up?I told myself that I was not experiencing life, that I was looking at it through the lens of the camera. But what really happened was, after a few years, things stopped being bright and shiny and new and exciting. It was pretty clear that we were going to have a career, that this wasn’t just a 15-minute Warholian burst of fame. I just moved on to other things.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningNo One You Know: Dave Rowntree’s Early Blur Photos is out now Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Springholm basks in sunshine as village comes together for Springholm Show

The event, which followed the popular gala and race night earlier in the summer, proved to be a day of colour, music, laughter, and community spirit.

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5 d. ago Glasgow to hold 'world’s smallest whisky festival' with live music and DJs

The Gate in Glasgow will host a two-day whisky festival with tastings, live music and DJs on September 27–28, with tickets from £25 to £40.

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6 d. ago Gorillaz: Demon Days at the Copper Box Arena review – the ultimate in fan service

Laden with bangers and packed with guest appearances, this was a performance for the history books

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6 d. ago Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice

Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions It hardly needs saying but I’ll say it anyway: we live in hard times. Things that some of us thought could and should have been solved haven’t been solved. Things that some of us thought would show signs of progress haven’t progressed. In many ways, wherever we look – locally, nationally or globally – there are things that have got worse. I don’t need to list them.I’m going to make a big claim: we can’t do anything about the things that bring us down if we are oppressed and depressed by them. We have to have hope. We need to be hopeful creatures in order to live. No matter how much events seem to point towards despair, telling us to be pessimistic, I think we have to find strategies and techniques to be hopeful. In spite of everything, we have to find reasons to go on. As someone once put it in a book, “...

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6 d. ago Lil Nas X's father reveals star's heartbreaking request from jail after nude public 'breakdown' and arrest

The 26-year-old music artist spent multiple days in jail last week for stripping nude on a major street in Los Angeles and allegedly assaulting police officers.

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1 week ago Police 'make arrests left, right and centre' at Notting Hill Carnival as Met 'clampdown on hippy crack' and anti

More than one million people hit the streets of west London as Adults Day commenced today. A sea of colourful costumes, floats, dancing and music were seen in celebration of Caribbean culture.

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2 w. ago Kneecap press on with European tour despite Hungary ban and cancelled gigs

Rap trio will face intense scrutiny from French authorities when they play Rock en Seine festival on SundayThe Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap are ploughing ahead with their European tour despite a ban on entering Hungary, the cancellation of a string of concerts in Austria and Germany, and the intense scrutiny of authorities in France.The Irish-language group will this Sunday play in front an expected 40,000 spectators at the Rock en Seine festival west of Paris, one of France’s biggest live music events of the year, just days after one of their members appeared at a London court on a terrorism charge. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Music festival In The City postpones this year's event, only days before it is set to begin

The festival was set to take place at Glasgow Green on August 23 and 24

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2 w. ago Glasgow music festival In The City called off days before start of event

In The City was set to take place at Barrowland Park across the upcoming weekend of August 23 and 24 but has been called off.

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2 w. ago Try Amazon Music Unlimited FREE for 30 days! Enjoy millions of songs, audiobooks and podcasts

SHOPPING: It's never the wrong time to enter a new era - especially when it comes to music. And Amazon Music Unlimited is offering 30 days free, so you can try it out for yourself.

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2 w. ago We Out Here 2025 review: Gilles Peterson throws a damn good party

This four-day festival is a sonic feast of music and food, and it hits all the right notes

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2 w. ago Moment UK music festival descends into utter chaos as 'unruly' crowds throw bottles, storm the stage and scramble over fences

Thousands had descended on Addingdon Park in Croydon over the weekend for the SandZ Caribbean music festival, which had promised two days of 'non-stop vibes'.

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3 w. ago Cheapest Coldplay tickets with days to go until UK dates start

Coldplay's Music of the Spheres UK will play a grand total of 12 dates in August and September.

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3 w. ago Bonehead spends 'day off' in Dublin as Oasis gear up for Croke Park gigs

Bonehead and his bandmates took a dip in the sea after arriving in Ireland for the next leg of the reunion tour

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3 w. ago Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos 7 & 8 album review – dramatic power from rarely heard Italian master

Tonda/Rome SO/La Vecchia(Naxos)Francesco La Vecchia draws out the fierce contrasts of Goffredo Petrassi’s later music in this new recording of his final two concertos.Though his music is rarely heard in the UK these days, Goffredo Petrassi was one of the most significant and influential Italian composers of the mid 20th century. Born in 1904, just a few months after Luigi Dallapiccola, Petrassi’s early works were firmly neoclassical, but after 1945 he began to incorporate elements from his younger contemporaries in the European avant garde. He was also a distinguished teacher; among the many who studied with him were Ennio Morricone, Peter Maxwell Davies and Cornelius Cardew.Petrassi’s eight concertos for orchestra are at the core of his orchestral output, and Naxos has now released recordings of all of them. The pairing of the last two, composed in 1964 and 1972, are typical of his later music, trenchantly argued, with fierce contrasts between strings and wind. It’s music of great ...

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3 w. ago Oasis at Murrayfield day 3 LIVE as Gallagher brothers prepare for final Scots gig

It's the third and final day of Oasis' Supersonic run of shows at Edinburgh Murrayfield.

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3 w. ago 37 brilliant pictures from the second day of Manchester's Caribbean Carnival 2025

Festival vibes, good food, music and sunshine at the second day of Manchester's Caribbean Carnival

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