22 h. ago Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse

Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Kae Tempest to be honoured by Ivors Academy for impactful songwriting

The songwriter and poet will be celebrated for inspiring cultural change.

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61 h. ago The success of AI music creators sparks debate on future of music industry

Oliver McCann, a British AI music creator, uses AI to produce songs across various genres

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5 d. ago Jessie J postpones upcoming tour amid plans for second cancer operation

The Price Tag singer apologised to fans but said ‘I know this is the right decision to make’.

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5 d. ago Elizabeth Hurley plants a passionate kiss on Billy Ray Cyrus while making a cheeky display in Scotland

The country music singer smooched the British actress on the lips while in a field on the Isle Of Mull in Scotland; it is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides.

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5 d. ago Jerry Mitchell Will Direct London Workshop of New Jukebox Musical British Invasion

Jerry Mitchell Will Direct London Workshop of New Jukebox Musical British Invasion  Playbill

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5 d. ago UK, France and Germany to revive sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme

The three European powers plan to impose sweeping sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation after efforts to restart diplomatic talks stalled.

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5 d. ago Brits' most wanted musical comebacks revealed as Oasis fever sweeps nation

With Oasis fever sweeping the UK, there are plenty of other musical brands Brits dream of seeing make a comeback. Queen top the list with the likes of Elvis, REM and Girls Aloud also featuring

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8 d. ago Britney Spears reflects on ‘hardest years’ and makes rare remark about Sam Asghari marriage

Pop star reflected on estrangement from her two children and claimed she was ‘cut off’ from calling or texting them

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8 d. ago Britney Spears reflects on ‘hardest years’ during separation from her sons

The singer said she coped through ‘denial and a lot of tears’.

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1 week ago Do you remember the first time? Why Britpop nostalgia just won’t go away

Whether it’s Robbie Williams’ new album, a Blur v Oasis play or Britpop romance novels, Alex James and others explain why we’re all still in thrall to the m ad-fer-it 90sIt is a Tuesday evening, and in the suitably 1990s environs of Soho’s Groucho Club, Robbie Williams, resplendent in pair of dungarees, is in the process of launching his new album. It’s called Britpop, features some songs co-written with Gaz Coombes of Supergrass, and is, he attests, “the album that I wanted to write and release after I left Take That in 1995”. This was the brief period where he attempted to establish himself as an adjunct to the mid-90s wave of hugely successful UK alt-rock, releasing a string of audibly Oasis-influenced solo singles, palling around Glastonbury with the Gallaghers and temporarily employing one of the band’s inner circle, Creation Records’ former managing director Tim Abbot, as his manager. “I’ve been musically aimless for a little while,” Williams said to the assembled press. “I’ve...

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1 week ago Brits waiting for parcels warned about 'phantom' scam sweeping the nation

People are being told of what they need to do to avoid being caught out by a now common postal scam where fraudsters can end up with your money and bank details

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1 week ago Robbie Williams says he would open for Oasis despite decades

The rivalry allegedly began over two decades ago which saw the 90s Britpop stars, Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis and Williams, exchange insults.

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1 week ago ‘Liam Gallagher is funnier than most standups!’: Is comedy the new rock’n’roll – or vice versa?

Oasis’s tour gobbled up Edinburgh audiences while fringe comics put on shows about Britpop and Arctic Monkeys. The music industry and the funny business could be more entwined than ever‘Comedy is the new rock’n’roll!” This line, variously attributed to a defunct listings mag, a member of the Comedy Store Players and Janet Street-Porter, became common currency in the 1990s, when comedy gatecrashed arenas with Newman and Baddiel’s maiden Wembley gig in 1993. Had the art of making people laugh eclipsed – in size, public enthusiasm, cultural cachet – the art of making people groove?It feels like a quaint conversation in light of the arrival of Oasis’s mega-tour in Edinburgh this month, which triggered panic among standups at the gazumping of their fringe audience. But has comedy returned to playing second fiddle to its sexier, better-loved big brother? Or are such distinctions meaningless in a cultural landscape unrecognisable from the 1990s? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brits warned about new 'phantom parcel' scam sweeping the nation

Here's how to spot the scam that's costing people hundresd of pounds before it's too late.

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2 w. ago They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to surviveFor years, Field Music playfully toyed with the idea of forming a hybrid cover band called AC/BGs, featuring one set of AC/DC songs done in a Saturday Night Fever-style and one set of rock-heavy Bee Gees numbers. “These things are a joke until they stop being a joke,” says David Brewis, one half of the Sunderland art-pop band.Another idea made it beyond a tour bus gag to become their new side hustle: a Doors tribute band called the Fire Doors. When the band announced it on Facebook last month, they received critical questions asking: why? The band’s response was a piercingly honest multi-page statement. Brewis wrote of Field Music’s sincere love of the band, the high levels of skill required to do such a job proficiently – and how doing one tribute gig a month could help their “dire finances”, having accepted that after nine albums, they h...

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2 w. ago Vera Lynn’s audition records to be released 90 years after they were recorded

What A Difference A Day Makes will be released as a single on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.

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2 w. ago DC's homeless pack up as sweeps are expected. What we know about Trump's plan to clear encampments

Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents are packing their belongings before an expected sweep to clear out remaining encampments around the nation’s capital

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2 w. ago Jessie J says her ‘hair has been falling out like crazy’ after cancer surgery

The singer has updated fans on her health five weeks after undergoing an operation.

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2 w. ago Drake lawyers allege Universal head Lucian Grainge ‘personally involved’ in Kendrick Lamar diss track

Lawyers for Universal Music Group deny that British chief exec had any ‘meaningful involvement’ in the promotion of allegedly defamatory track Not Like UsAs Drake’s lawsuit continues against his record label’s parent company, Universal Music Group (UMG), his lawyers have claimed that UMG’s British chair and chief executive Lucian Grainge had a “role in and knowledge of the scheme to defame and harass” Drake, and have requested that UMG produce texts and emails by Grainge.UMG has previously denied access to those communications, stating that Grainge has “no meaningful involvement in the matters and decisions at issue in this litigation”. Continue reading...

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