3 h. ago Reading and Leeds 2026 headliners spark disappointment over one major change

Reading and Leeds Festival have announced their headliners for next year's shows but some fans have expressed their disappointment at the line-up as they notice one major change

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5 h. ago Reading and Leeds Festival fans ask same question as 2026 headliners announced

Fans have said they are "disappointed" after claiming one thing is missing from the iconic line-up

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6 h. ago Reading and Leeds Headliners 2026: Here are all 18 acts announced for the festival so far

It’s going to be one of the biggest parties of the year.

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6 h. ago Reading and Leeds 2026 announce six huge headliners in huge switch up

Reading and Leeds Festival fans are being treated to a history-making 2026 event as organisers announce the first headliners ahead of next year

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6 h. ago Reading and Leeds 2026: Headliners and lineup announced ahead of tickets going on sale

Festivals have secured a number of exclusive performances, including from British pop star Charli XCX and rapper Dave

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6 h. ago Reading and Leeds Festival announces Charli xcx among headliners for 2026

Next year’s line up features all British and Irish artists, and tickets are already on sale

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7 h. ago Reading and Leeds 2026: Charli XCX, Raye and Florence and the Machine among festival headliners

Fontaines D.C., Dave and Chase & Status are also among the headline acts at the iconic twin festival next August

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7 h. ago Reading and Leeds reveal 2026 headliners including Charli XCX, Dave and Fontaines DC

Festivals have secured a number of exclusive performances, including from British pop star Charli XCX and rapper Dave

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4 d. ago Alexander Skarsgard says BDSM film Pillion feels ‘incredibly Brat’

Charli XCX’s album Brat inspired a summer trend defined by sultry fashion choices and a party girl attitude.

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4 d. ago The best Apple Black Friday deal is for the cheapest iPhone 16 ever

Sky has dropped the price of the iPhone 16 range to its lowest ever levels for Black Friday, including a headline £17 a month offer that is one of the biggest phone savings of the year.

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5 d. ago Warner Music signs deal with AI song generator Suno after settling lawsuit

Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Business live – latest updatesWarner Music has signed a licensing deal with the artificial intelligence song generator Suno after settling a copyright infringement lawsuit it launched against the service a year agoWarner, the world’s third-largest music company and home to acts including Coldplay, Charli XCX and Ed Sheeran, is the first of the major record labels to officially partner with the company. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

The anthropologist and father of New York’s mayor-elect offers a revisionist view of modern Ugandan historyChildren of Ugandan Indians are having a bit of a moment. Electropop boasts Charlie XCX; statecraft, the Patels: Priti the shadow foreign secretary, Kash the FBI boss. And while the ones who go into politics have tended to be conservative, we now have a counterexample in Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who clinched the New York mayoralty at the beginning of this month.The anomaly is best explained by the politics of his father, Mahmood Mamdani. The apple, it seems, did not roll especially far down the postcolonial hillside. Mahmood, professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, has long styled himself as the left’s answer to VS Naipaul. Where the Nobel-winning curmudgeon surveyed postcolonial Africa with disdain, revelling in the wreckage of independence, Mamdani presents a more forgiving view: pathos instead of pity, paradox instead o...

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7 d. ago Reading and Leeds Festival Headliners 2026 Latest Rumours: These are 17 acts tipped to be topping the bill

It’s only a matter of time before one of the biggest live music announcements of the year drops.

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7 d. ago Charli XCX details the highs and lows of fame and reveals why being a pop star is 'really embarrassing' in painfully honest Substack post

The British singer developed a niche following of fiercely loyal fans following the release of her debut album, True Romance, in 2013.

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8 d. ago Breast flashing trend empowers braless Sydney Sweeney, Billie Piper and Charlie XCX

A decade after the Free the Nipple movement started, Sydney Sweeney, Billie Piper and Charli XCX appear to be on a mission to desexualise the nipple and take ownership of their bodies

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8 d. ago Charli xcx injecting 'trout sperm' into her face in popular beauty procedure

Polynucleotides have been proven to help skin glow and retain a youthful feel, but now it has been revealed many are going to extreme lengths to get their injections

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9 d. ago Rockers Biffy Clyro pen Scotland's Tartan Army football song for the 2026 World Cup

Rockers Biffy Clyro have already written a Tartan Army football song for the World Cup and contacted the Scottish FA. The chart-topping trio also paid tribute to their pal Mani from The Stones Roses who passed away, recalling messy times at Leeds and Reading festivals together. Biffy also tease a collab with Villanelle - fronted by Liam Gallagher's son Gene.

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1 week ago Charli xcx plays version of herself in teaser for mockumentary The Moment

The ‘2024 period piece’ stars the Grammy-winning musician with Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott and Alexander SkarsgårdCharli xcx’s 2026 big screen onslaught is set to kick off with The Moment, a mockumentary starring the musician as a self-described “hell version” of herself.The film, based on an idea by the Grammy winner, is fiction but xcx has called it “the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Warp)Made using a cache of Y2K sample CDs that Daniel Lopatin salvaged from the internet’s fringes, the kaleidoscopic result speaks to contemporary information overloadIt should come as no surprise that the new album by Oneohtrix Point Never comes with a concept attached. They usually do. When not composing film soundtracks, or producing an eclectic range of other artists – the Weeknd, Anohni, Charli xcx, Soccer Mommy – Daniel Lopatin has released a string of acclaimed works, each with their own overarching idea.The “hyperreal world music” of 2010’s Returnal was inspired by the fact that people now see more of the world than ever without actually leaving their homes. In 2015, Garden of Delete had an accompanying origin story about an adolescent humanoid alien called Ezra; 2018’s Age Of imagined artificial intelligence attempting to recreate human culture after humans themselves had been rendered extinct. Lopatin also has an all-consuming obsession with nostalgia and forgotten pop c...

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1 week ago Liverpool news: Mo Salah sale not ruled out as position taken on star's contract dilemma

A look towards the latest headlines involving Liverpool including the future of Mohamed Salah

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