6 h. ago 'Gina already has the feel of a local legend': TOM PARKER BOWLES reviews Ravneet Gill's new restaurant

In East London, Tom discovers a delightful wife-and-husband spot that nods to the 1970s

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8 h. ago ‘I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic’: Jade Thirlwall on anorexia, protest in pop and life after Little Mix

As part of the hugely successful girlband, she had to contend with an eating disorder, racism and a hostile tabloid press. Now JADE the solo artist is conquering the charts with her unorthodox pop bangers and unfiltered attitudeIt’s customary for former girlband members to shun their manufactured roots the second they go solo. But now that Jade Thirlwall is no longer a member of Little Mix, she’s become their biggest fan. “I look back and I’m gagged at us!” she tells me, eyes wide with delight. “I still watch our music videos or performances and wonder how we weren’t even bigger, because we were fucking amazing.“Before I released my first solo song, I listened to Little Mix’s entire discography and cried. I was this young lass from South Shields who just wanted to make it as a singer, and I went on to be in the best, coolest girlband ever.” And now? “Now I get to have a bonus round, doing my own songs,” she beams. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago 'Artists aren't drinking or doing drugs now' – the return of The Maccabees

It’s not just those Oasis reunion shows lighting up London’s summer — beloved five-piece The Maccabees are back after a seven-year break and loving it more than ever

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56 h. ago Eight things we learned from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s marathon New Heights podcast

If you don’t have a spare two hours to listen to Swift talking about The Life of a Showgirl on her boyfriend’s podcast, we did it for youTwo years ago, American footballer Travis Kelce famously used the New Heights podcast – which he hosts with his brother Jason – to announce that he wanted to date Taylor Swift. This was after he failed to get her attention at her Eras tour show at Arrowhead Stadium, home to his team, the Kansas City Chiefs. Somehow, it worked: he managed to get the girl. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago WWE legend slams company and claims he 'doesn't feel appreciated' after SummerSlam snub

Bret Hart said he was invited to be in the crowd for the two-night event in New Jersey earlier this month, only to be told they didn't have any seats for him when he arrived at the Met Life Stadium

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6 d. ago The Black Keys on their music industry nightmare: ‘We were angry. We wanted vengeance’

From botched tours to monopolised ticketing and vanishing payouts, The Black Keys are speaking out against a music industry they say is rigged. Ahead of the release of their 13th album, ‘No Rain, No Flowers’, the band speaks to Mark Beaumont about why they’re not backing down

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7 d. ago Kevin Rowland: ‘If I could bring something extinct back to life it would be the Labour party’

The Dexys Midnight Runners singer on being arrested 15 times, a crushing comment from his dad and a lesson from ShakespeareBorn in Wolverhampton, Kevin Rowland, 71, was a hairdresser before forming Dexys Midnight Runners. The band had their first hit in 1980 with Geno. In 1982, Come On Eileen was Britain’s bestselling single; the following year, it went to No 1 in the US. Over five decades, Dexys released six studio albums including The Feminine Divine in 2023. As a solo artist, Rowland released two albums, The Wanderer in 1988 and My Beauty in 1999. Bless Me Father, Rowland’s memoir, has just been published. He lives in London and has a daughter.When were you happiest? On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘Working with Kanye? That’s definitely in the past’: rap legends Clipse on beef, Bono and Mr Bean

Amid their triumphant reunion, the brothers Pusha T and Malice answer your questions on the wisdom of the apostles, the catharsis of writing about their late parents and the greatness of Billy JoelThe Birds Don’t Sing [from new album Let God Sort Em Out] is an incredibly emotional track, especially for an album opener. What things did your parents say to you that make you proud and have stuck with you over the years? Fran_MMalice: Creating that song was a very emotional time and it cut real deep, but to be able to journal the grief from losing both our parents into a piece of art was also healing. I believe it’s a song that is going to resonate with a lot of people, because whether we like it or not, most of us are going to end up outliving our parents. This is something always in the back of your mind, you know? Already, a lot of people are coming up to us on the street and saying: thank you, that song helped me to grieve. The Birds Don’t Sing isn’t just our story, it’s everybody’s...

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9 d. ago Tim Minchin reveals the work he’s most proud of: ‘I love it’

Exclusive: Composer and lyricist was thrust into the spotlight after writing the music for the hit show ‘Matilda’, but cited another project as one of his best works

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1 week ago Eminem’s manager says ‘Stan’ portmanteau was ‘happy coincidence’

Exclusive: Rapper’s longtime manager Paul Rosenberg reflects on the track’s impact 25 years since its release, ahead of a new documentary about his obsessive fanbase

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1 week ago BBC Radio legend exposes huge music icon as the most 'unpleasant' celeb she's ever interviewed

Radio legend Jo Whiley said the star left her feeling "so tiny and so stupid" during their interview.

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1 week ago Jo Whiley had 'horrible' interview with music legends who made her feel 'tiny and stupid'

Radio 2 legend Jo Whiley has revealed she had an extremely unpleasant experience interviewing two huge music stars, and that fame had changed one into another "creature"

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1 week ago Jo Whiley says Eminem and Dr Dre made her feel ‘tiny and stupid’ in ‘unpleasant’ interview

Radio presenter has interviewed a slew of music stars during her three decades at the BBC

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1 week ago Jo Whiley reveals the iconic star who left her feeling 'tiny and stupid' during an 'unpleasant' interview

Jo Whiley has opened up about the celebrity interview that left her feeling 'tiny and stupid'. The presenter, 60, said her confidence took a major knock as a result of the interaction.

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2 w. ago The Maccabees on splitting up and reuniting: ‘There were years where it was like a stranger messaging you’

The indie stars talk to Patrick Smith about the celebrity wedding that led to them reforming for Glastonbury and All Points East, rebuilding trust, and why new bands have it so much harder now

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3 w. ago ‘I’ve never asked for the approval of conservative white bigots’: Reneé Rapp on pop stardom, problem fans, and speaking her mind

She made her name in Mean Girls and Sex Lives of College Girls, but it’s her lack of a filter off screen that sent her viral. Ahead of her new album, she talks fame, gossip and Trump’s America – and doesn’t hold back“I looove to lie,” sighs Reneé Rapp happily, sounding like a kid who has just discovered a new favourite toy. She’s talking about using creative licence in her songs, and how she realised, while working on her second album, that she didn’t have to stick to the truth of her own experience 100% of the time. But for a journalist, the admission – and her apparent glee about it – demands a follow-up: has she lied at all in the last 40 minutes?I expect Rapp, 25, to wave away the question. Instead she pauses, seeming to give it real thought. “Have I lied? You know, I don’t think so,” she eventually concludes. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Wolf Alice: ‘I’m a private person – why am I airing my dirty laundry?’

Britain’s foremost guitar band are about to return with a brilliant new album, ‘The Clearing’. They talk to Adam White about ambition, early-thirties freakouts and the importance of speaking up about Palestine

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4 w. ago The reinvention of Sabrina Claudio: 'my persona wasn't working, I didn't enjoy it'

The American R&B style has put a period of turmoil behind her to reassess who she wants to be as a person and an artist

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4 w. ago Billie Marten: ‘Mostly, artists are in financial ruin no matter how successful they appear to be’

As the contemporary folk singer releases her fifth studio album, ‘Dog Eared’, she sits down with Helen Coffey to discuss her bold new sound, the mourning for lost childhood, and why our broken music industry means we all wind up paying Taylor Swift in the end

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4 w. ago ‘People lashed out because she wasn’t a guy’: Linkin Park on nu

After the death of lead vocalist Chester Bennington in 2017, the rap-rock icons have reformed, aiming to cultivate ‘good vibes’ for a new generation of fans. Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong discuss backlash and rebirthIt’s been almost 25 years since Linkin Park released their debut album, Hybrid Theory. An irresistible fusion of metal, hip-hop, electronica, industrial rock and infectious pop melody, it established the Californian sextet as instant nu-metal icons and laid the groundwork for the group to become, by many metrics, the biggest US rock band of this millennium: Hybrid Theory ended up the bestselling album of 2001; its follow-up, Meteora, would also go on to rank as one of the bestselling albums of the 21st century.It’s been just 36 hours, however, since the band played their biggest headline gig to date, at a steamy and rapturous Wembley stadium. Outside, it’s still scorching, but in an icily air-conditioned hotel overlooking the Thames, Linkin Park’s co-founder, co-vocal...

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