37 h. ago Tyler, The Creator live at The O2 review: fizzing with a sense of the unexpected

This gripping, well-paced show featured some of the most creative, theatrical live staging of the year so far

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64 h. ago Oasis start rehearsals for Live 25 reunion tour without Liam Gallagher

The 2025 UK tour will be the first time Noel and Liam have shared a stage in 20 years and the band have begun practicing together ahead of the mammoth shows without a vital member.

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4 d. ago Is your London music festival cancelled? Brockwell Live share crucial update after High Court ruling

Good news for music lovers are Brockwell Live organisers confirm the shows will go on

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4 d. ago Is your London music festival cancelled? Brockwell Live shares crucial update after High Court ruling

From Field Day to Mighty Hoopla, a number of prominent London festivals face an uncertain future

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6 d. ago Eurovision 2025 host Michelle Hunziker sparks concern as viewers make same comment

The 69th version of the epic music event was taking place on Saturday night (May 17) live from Basel, Switzerland

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6 d. ago Ruling over London festivals ‘could lead to dark new era for live music’

Legal action was brought against Lambeth Council over the use of Brixton’s Brockwell Park for the Brockwell Live festivals.

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6 d. ago Pub in the Park returning to London with live music and celebrity chefs

Pub in the Park returning to London with live music and celebrity chefs  Hackney Gazette

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8 d. ago Liam Gallagher blasts 'scandalous' decision as iconic venue where Oasis, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Def Leppard played closes after owners lose court fight against eviction

The Leadmill in Sheffield has held performances from some of the biggest bands in the world and is the longest running live music venue and nightclub in the city

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8 d. ago Bruce Springsteen review – a roaring, rousing s how that imagines a better America

Co-op Live, ManchesterThe Boss and his E Street Band pluck hope from the depths of despair with a fiery show that hits out at the US administration but ends with loveBefore Bruce Springsteen sings a word on the opening night of his European tour, he has something to get off his chest. “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock’n’roll in dangerous times,” he says. “The America I love is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.” The band then launch into a roaring, rousing version of Land of Hope and Dreams, as strings swoop, brass soars and Springsteen gives an impassioned take of the song he sang for Clarence Clemons on his deathbed. Followed by Death to My Hometown – with the titular lyrics delivered with venomous sting – it sets the tone for an evening that is bruised and angry yet also hopeful and filled with love.The band – who Springsteen calls a “booty-shaking, lovemaking, Viagra-...

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9 d. ago 'I was scared out of my mind, I was worried Harry Styles was going to yonk me in the head'

Tim Leiweke was speaking ahead of tonight's huge Bruce Springsteen show at Manchester's Co-op Live

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1 week ago The Glasgow bar with food and live music that was named 'Scotland's best pub'

The gastropub serves up burgers, pizzas, wings, and more.

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1 week ago Gallagher brothers back grassroots music projects ahead of return to Manchester

Council chiefs predict 1.3 million tourists will flock to the city in ‘the summer of all summers’ for live music.

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1 week ago Diddy trial live updates: Jury selected in music mogul's case

Opening statements in Sean ' Diddy ' Combs sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court will happen on Monday after jury selection was delayed.

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1 week ago ‘LSD? Been there, done that’: the Grateful Dead’s 60 years of drugs, epic noodling and obsessive fans

Forget Swifties. The Grateful Dead have the world’s most devoted following. As he heads for Britain, founder Bobby Weir talks Vegas spectaculars, bootleggers and life after Jerry Garcia‘We didn’t want to be the cops,” says Bobby Weir, guitarist and founder member of the Grateful Dead, laughing as he describes his band’s legendarily lax attitude to people taping their concerts. Bootleggers were given their own area at gigs on the proviso their tapes were traded, not sold – an illustration of the band’s generosity of spirit. “It was an easy decision to make,” Weir says.Decisions like those have ensured that, decades before today’s obsessional Swifties and K-pop stans, the Dead have cultivated one of music’s most passionate fandoms. They are surely the world’s best-documented band. This year, they’re marking their 60th anniversary with a 60-CD box set, just one of many gargantuan packages over the years. Their 2024 Friend of the Devils box set only covered a single month of live music ...

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1 week ago ‘Ich komme!’ The smutty Eurovision songs that dodge the censors

From ensuring your swearwords are in languages other than English to outrageous euphemisms, contestants in the famously camp extravaganza have ways to avoid being toned down When the winner of this year’s Eurovision song contest is announced shortly before midnight next Saturday, it won’t be the first climax of the evening. “I’m coming / I’m coming,” a scantily clad Lithuanian will announce in the chorus of her song. Australia’s male entrant will invite listeners to “sh-sh-shake me good” so they can get “a taste of the milkshake man”. And Malta’s submission is going to prompt the audience to shout the word “Kant” – due to it sounding like a rude English term for female genitalia.After the 2024 edition of the world’s largest live music contest was largely overshadowed by political positioning over the war in Gaza, many artists at this year’s event in the Swiss city of Basel are returning to what they like to do best: celebrating the act of lovemaking in pop songs. Because even though...

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2 w. ago Cypress Hill & London Symphony Drop Black Sunday Live Album & Film June 6

Cypress Hill & London Symphony Drop Black Sunday Live Album & Film June 6  Live Music Blog

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago ‘A safe haven from racial violence’: Sinners shows the importance of juke joints

Ryan Coogler’s smash hit horror focuses on the opening of a juke joint, a one-time mainstay in Black southern cultureIn Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, the Smokestack twins – a gangster pair played by Michael B Jordan – return to their Mississippi Delta home town to open a juke joint and make a fast buck, only to wind up hunkered inside when danger literally comes knocking. But the juke joint is more than a safe space from vampires; for Black people during segregation, it was an escape from the horrors of the so-called “separate-but-equal” US economy. “The juke joint represents, as the film suggests, this multifaceted connection to the foundation of Black experience,” says William Ferris, a University of North Carolina history professor who has made documenting blues music and southern culture his life’s work. “It’s a safe haven from racial violence.”During the late 19th and early 20th century the juke joint was a southern social institution, the place to drink and unwind over live music. T...

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2 w. ago UK charity Music in Hospitals & Care to perform for veterans in Wishaw to mark VE Day

This year, Music in Hospitals & Care will be showing their support on VE Day with specially curated live music experiences celebrating the resilience and sacrifice of veterans.

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2 w. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial live updates: Jury selection begins as music mogul appears in court for sex trafficking trial

After rejecting a last-minute plea deal offer, Diddy is expected to appear in court Monday to be tried on sex trafficking charges

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