8 h. ago British tourist is seriously injured in crash that killed another woman after driver 'high on laughing gas' mounted kerb and ploughed into group in Spain

The British woman, 23, was one of three rushed to Ibiza's main state hospital Can Misses after the fatal crash, which took place at 11.15am on Sunday in San Jose, a municipality on the popular party island.

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18 h. ago From pop producer to activist: Robin Millar on the barriers disabled people still face

He made his name with chart-topping hits – now the Scope chair wants to change how society sees disabilityPop mogul Sir Robin Millar is not a man who you would expect to struggle with access in the music industry.In a glittering career that spans decades, he has worked alongside some of the most celebrated names in British music, from Sade to Boy George, and counts legends such as the Rolling Stones among his list of A-list friends. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago 'I went to a Croatian party island popular with Brits where music is banned'

Daily Record writer Fionnuala Boyle visited Hvar where they have introduced strict noise restrictions.

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30 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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4 d. ago Taylor Swift’s Eras tour helps fuel UK consumer spending on live music to record £6.7bn high

Report from Live shows spending £2bn higher than before Covid-19 shutdowns, although grassroots venues are still closing at an increasing rateUK consumer spending on live music events reached a record-breaking total of £6.68bn in 2024, up 9.5% on the previous year, fuelled in part by Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras tour.The report from Live (Live music Industry Venues and Entertainment), the recently formed body advocating for the British music industry’s interests before government, signals a full-bodied return from the effects of Covid-19. The figures are 28.2% higher than in 2022, when live music more or less resumed after the pandemic, and more than £2bn more than in 2019, the last fully functioning year for live music prior to the shutdown. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Tenerife tourists warned of 'potentially scary' volcano alert

The president of the popular tourist island announced the plans on Monday.

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6 d. 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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7 d. 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week ago Alarm after spree of tourist deaths in popular Thai holiday island

Concern over safety standards on Phuket beaches as four tourists die in a weekhuket

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1 week ago Tourists are filmed hanging dangerously out of moving cars on Spanish holiday island

Eight tourists were fined after being filmed hanging dangerously out of moving cars on a holiday island popular with Brits.

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1 week 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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1 week ago Another Spanish beach is closed as invasion of potentially deadly 'blue dragon' sea creatures spreads to holiday island after Costa Blanca alert

The dangerous creatures, which have a potentially-fatal sting, were spotted on La Cantería beach in Órzola, in the popular holiday island Lanzarote, forcing the beach to temporarily close.

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1 week 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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2 w. 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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2 w. ago Italy is hit with deadly floods as ferocious 'water bomb' storm turns roads into rivers

Sicily has been inundated by aggressive rain and one man has tragically died after a furious storm struck the popular southern island. Bridges have also crumbled with cars being swept away.

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago Greece tourist hotspot so overcrowded there are sunbeds in the sea

Local authorities on the popular tourist island pledged to curb illegal beach operations two years ago but rogue operators are still reportedly there

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2 w. 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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