7 h. ago The one change that worked: I sobered up – and started to listen to what my body was telling me

After years of partying, I realised the exhaustion and anxiety weren’t worth it, and turned my back on Friday night Fomo. I still enjoy the dancefloor, but I always know when to leaveMost of my adult life has revolved around music: clubs, bars, festivals, house parties – anywhere I could dance to loud music. I loved how energising and cathartic it was to get immersed in it, to lose myself a little and move my body expressively without judgment. I’d get so absorbed that I would lose track of time; once, at Burning Man, I was awake for 36 hours exploring the festival, meeting new people and partying.When I became a DJ, these kinds of events increased. Late nights out would last until the morning. Often, they became marathon weekend sessions, which ran from Friday night to Sunday lunchtime. It wasn’t all dancing and shenanigans – there would be moments to sit around and chat with people, too. I’d be out at least three times a week. Even though I’d get tired, I would always find some wa...

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22 h. ago EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann’s electric yet avoidant documentary

Toronto film festival: the bombastic director’s second film about the music legend shows the singer at his most mesmerizing but the picture remains incompleteBaz Luhrmann now has two Elvis movies under his bedazzled belt. The first is his epic biopic starring Austin Butler and now he has unleashed another called EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, remixing archival material with never-before-seen footage from the singer’s residency in Las Vegas. What’s remarkable about them both, apart from the director’s obvious affinity for his subject’s showmanship, is his refusal across so many hours of jiggling and swivelling to meaningfully hold Elvis to account.Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated 2022 film acknowledged Elvis’s cultural appropriation: how his phenomenal success owed so much to the R&B, gospel and rock he grew up around and the racist institutions that put him on a pedestal while holding down the Black artists that birthed and gave that music its soul. The movie also painted Elvis as a ...

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31 h. ago Heavily pregnant Shaughna Phillips proudly posts photos with baby dad after jail release

Pregnant Shaughna Phillips posts loved up picture with her baby father and boyfriend as they enjoy a rare family day out at a music festival in Beckenham following his jail release

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36 h. ago Festival director: Roma culture needs to gain same status as Irish music in Scotland

The Ando Glaso Roma Fest wants to highlight Roma culture and music

Culture

47 h. ago Ronan Keating brings out Bryan Adams during Radio 2 in the Park set

Keating, who began his career in the boyband Boyzone in 1993, took the main stage at the Chelmsford music festival on Saturday afternoon.

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5 d. ago From the Archives: Ken Walton on the first ever Lammermuir Festival

Over the last 15 years the Lammermuir Festival has become one of the highlights of Scotland’s classical music calendar, and the 2025 edition is about to take place in venues all around East Lothian. Back in September 2010, however, it was still just an idea. Scotsman classical music critic Ken Walton spoke to co-artistic directors James Waters and Hugh Macdonald about their plans for the inaugural event

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5 d. ago End of the Road: the best festival for discovering new music

The summer-ending festival for fans of eclectic music was this year also a show of strength in both its line-up and in keeping its personal, ramshackle origins in place

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6 d. ago Jason Aldean reveals he had a ‘breakdown’ after mass shooting at Las Vegas music festival

The country star was onstage when the deadliest mass shooting in US history erupted

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6 d. ago Man is found dead at annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, a sheriff's office says

Authorities say a man has been found dead in a pool of blood at Burning Man, and the death at the yearly art and music festival in the Nevada desert is being investigated as a homicide

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7 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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8 d. ago Kneecap performance a special moment, says Electric Picnic boss

Melvin Benn also highlighted the performances of Chappell Roan and Hozier at Ireland’s largest music festival as ‘insanely good’

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8 d. ago Teenage girl, 17, who died at music festival was 'feisty, loving and full of life', sister tells mourners at emotional funeral

Mourners at the funeral of Mia Keevan, 17, heard a plea for young people to think about the choices they make and to look out for each other.

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1 week ago Queen Mary of Denmark gives her verdict on daughter Princess Isabella's X

Queen Mary of Denmark has issued an amusing verdict on her eldest daughter Princess Isabella's bold choice of attire at a local music festival earlier this month.

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1 week ago Ex rugby international faces sexism storm after lifting up an influencer's miniskirt as she danced on a table top during festival in France

In footage shared on social media, Charline Pradeau can be seen dancing in a bar in Dax during Feria de Dax - a festival celebrating bullfighting, folk music and sporting events.

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1 week ago 'I went to UK music festival with beautiful scenery but some parts were chaotic'

Journalist and editor Samantha Bartlett headed down to one UK festival that hit headlines this year, and despite the chaos and controversy, here's why she thinks you shouldn't write it off

Culture

1 week ago How a trip to ‘Moomin island’ made me rethink summers in the Med

Spending the summer attending music festivals, foraging and island hopping amongst the happiest people in the world is far preferable to sweltering on a beach in southern Europe, says Matt Charlton

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1 week ago Suede at the Southbank Centre review: they came, they saw, they dazzled

This defiant takeover of the Southbank showed a band that was both grime-smothered and immaculately graceful

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1 week ago Pictured: Teenage girl, 17, who died after falling ill at music festival that saw two others rushed to hospital

Mia Keevan, 17, became unwell during the Emerge music festival at Boucher Playing Fields in south Belfast. She was rushed to hospital on Sunday but doctors could not save her.

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1 week ago Teen girl who died at festival was a 'bright, fun and much loved' girl

Tributes have been paid to Mia Keevan who has been named locally as the young girl who died after becoming unwell at the Emerge music festival in Belfast at the weekend

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1 week ago Teen girl who died at Emerge Belfast festival pictured as family pay tribute

Mia Keevan died after 'becoming unwell' at the Emerge music festival in Belfast at the weekend as two other attendees were rushed to hospital

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