34 h. ago BRIT Award winners Wet Leg in quit threat so they can watch telly

Rockers Wet Leg threaten to retire before they get to old, and call veteran bands still touring after forty years "absurd". The Isle Of WIght act will play three huge outdoor gigs in the UK next July and insist being in a band is more than being a solo pop star...for now.

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1 week ago Tom Fletcher: ‘Who would play me on screen? I get confused for Tom Felton all the time’

The McFly singer on getting kicked out of Busted after two days, peeing himself on stage and learning to love his ‘big chin’Born in London, Tom Fletcher, 40, attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School and founded McFly in 2003. The band had seven No 1 singles, won a Brit Award for best pop act and continue to perform. In 2016, Fletcher published his first solo-written book for children, The Christmasaurus, which was shortlisted for a British Book Award. His titles have been translated into 40 languages. Paddington: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Fletcher, is at the Savoy theatre until next May. He is married to podcaster and author Giovanna Fletcher, has three children and lives in Hertfordshire.When were you happiest? On stage with my band. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Haim Glasgow: Setlist, stage times, support and what to know ahead of OVO Hydro gig

Having previously claimed that some of the best shows they’ve ever played were in Scotland, Haim will finish the UK leg of their I Quit tour at the Hydro on Halloween.

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2 w. ago Lily Allen says it took her life ‘falling apart’ to find her ‘authentic voice’

Allen’s new album, West End Girl, sees her sing about themes of infidelity.

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3 w. ago The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre review – baroque’n’roll band’s speedily released second album is overheated

(Island Records)The London five-piece throw the kitchen sink at these dizzyingly dense songs, often crushing their melodic pleasures in the processIn an era when new bands struggle to break into the mainstream, the Last Dinner Party’s unusually swift rise (they were supporting the Rolling Stones a mere eight months after their first gig, and won the Rising Star Brit award just two years later) meant they spent much of the press cycle for their Mercury-nominated, chart-topping 2024 debut rubbishing suggestions they’d been manufactured by the music industry. As its follow-up arrives, the London five-piece still seem defensive. “While it may seem to an outsider that we have moved quickly on to a second album,” they write in a self-penned press release, “this timing felt like a natural progression to us.”From the Pyre certainly doesn’t sound opportunistically rushed out. Quite the opposite, in fact: this is a dizzyingly dense collection of long, intricate tracks that layer biblical imag...

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3 w. ago Celeste on heartbreak, healing and setting herself free: 'I got to a point where I just burst'

Her sweet soul sound won Celeste instant acclaim and a Brit award. But then came heartbreak, depression — and now a raw new album that’s putting her back in the spotlight

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