28 h. ago Glassford Beer and Gin Festival raises £5k for community group

Two live music stages featured a wide range of acts with radio DJ and broadcaster Steve McKenna hosting the marquee and Avondale Radio taking over the village hall stage.

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31 h. ago Gary Neville admits being 'worse for wear' after David Beckham's 50th birthday celebrations

Beckham threw four days of celebrations to mark his 50th birthday, which included an intimate dinner party at swanky central London restaurant Core on Saturday, with Neville among the attendees.

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4 d. ago ‘I’ll never forget the night I drank porn star martinis with Liam Gallagher’

DJ, radio host and music historian Rob Fiddaman has sold memorabilia for bands including Oasis

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5 d. ago Olivia Attwood stuns in a red mini as she celebrates her 34th birthday with boozy champagne party with her celebrity pals in London's Mayfair

Olivia Attwood celebrated her 34th birthday with a bang as she invited some of her closest pals to an intimate party in London's Mayfair on Saturday night.

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9 d. ago Taylor Swift's epic dig at Kanye West revealed by Ed Sheeran

The Swift-West rivalry began at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City .

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2 w. ago I'm A Celeb star Jack Maynard's new heiress wife shares stunning first wedding snaps from inside their intimate London ceremony

The YouTuber and I'm A Celeb star, 32, tied the knot with his long-term girlfriend Lily, 30, at Chelsea Old Town Hall on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago Hugh Jackman reveals his one gripe with Ryan Reynolds as he takes cheeky swipe

Hugh Jackman took aim at his longtime frenemy Ryan Reynolds while on stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Friday. He mocked the opening scene of their Marvel movie

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3 w. ago Pulp to play exclusive London shows for BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 next month – get tickets

Pulp to play exclusive London shows for BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 next month – get tickets  Yahoo News UK

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3 w. ago Pulp announce two special intimate London gigs for BBC 6 Music and Radio 2 – here's how to apply for free tickets

Pulp announce two special intimate London gigs for BBC 6 Music and Radio 2 – here's how to apply for free tickets  NME

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3 w. ago Michael Hutchence's daughter Tiger Lily 'secretly ties the knot with boyfriend Ben Archer'

Tiger Lily, a singer who released Tragic Tiger's Sad Meltdown in 2022, said "I do" at an intimate ceremony of just 30 guests in East London, according to reports

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3 w. ago Music can lift mood, foster community and even rewire brains – but does it need to have a purpose?

The therapeutic role music can play is the focus of a string of new books and even an entire BBC radio station. But why can’t we just listen to music for music’s sake?Growing up, I never questioned the intrinsic value of classical music. My father practising classical and jazz guitar was the aural wallpaper to my childhood, and at my rural state school I took lessons on the recorder, the violin, the cello, the trombone, the piano. The after-school clubs on offer included, somewhat implausibly, an ocarina ensemble. Music was art, and wasn’t art the point of it all, when you got right down to it? The reason to live, after we cater for all our basic needs? It was certainly what led me to become first a classical musician, and then a music historian.But when my dad died unexpectedly in 2019, it threw my relationship with music into sharp relief. All of a sudden, I couldn’t bear listening to it. It was too painful, or it grated on my nerves and made me angry. I started to question how an...

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4 w. ago TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe: ‘I remember thinking I never want to do this again’

TV on the Radio’s frontman hit rock bottom at the height of the band’s powers and stopped performing music for good. But with his acting career taking off and a genre-jumping new solo album, one of rock’s great polymaths is backSitting in the belly of north London’s Islington Assembly Hall in the middle of four sold-out nights, TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe is recalling the precise moment he wanted to quit his band – and music – for ever. It was 2019 and the group, an art-rock four-piece who haven’t made a record that wasn’t adored by critics since emerging from Brooklyn in the early 00s, were opening for Weezer and Pixies at Madison Square Garden in New York.Over the years, they’ve made five studio albums and also lost bass player Gerard Smith, who died suddenly in 2011. They’ve grieved and grown together. Adebimpe is their talisman. A tall, expressive focal point, able to rabble-rouse with songs such as Wolf Like Me, or calm the congregation with low-slung trac...

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last month Sexual violence and harassment ‘endemic’ in French entertainment industry, report finds

Attitudes in France ‘barely evolving’ amid ‘collective denial’ years after the #MeToo movement began, according to parliamentary commissionSexual violence and sexual harassment are “endemic” in France’s entertainment industry, a damning report by French politicians has found, concluding that women and children are still being routinely preyed on, despite the country’s #MeToo movement.The Green MP Sandrine Rousseau and the centrist Erwan Balanant found that sexual violence, harassment and bullying were “systemic, endemic and persistent” in all sectors of the French culture and entertainment industry, from TV and cinema to theatre, radio, comedy, advertising, rock and classical music. Continue reading...

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