5 d. ago Download Festival 2026: Keanu Reeves and Cypress Hill join Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park in line

The John Wick and Matrix actor will perform with his band Dogstar at the UK’s biggest rock and metal event, joining hip-hop heavyweights Cypress Hill and a trio of blockbuster headliners

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9 d. ago Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: ‘We don’t want to be the biggest band in the world. It’s just fun playing with our besties’

The Australian rock band are ‘legit now’ with their second album, Glory. They talk about performing while underage, playing with Dave Grohl and the ‘girl band’ labelGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“If you want to rock, you’ve gotta break the rules. You’ve gotta get mad at The Man,” a wise man (Jack Black) once said (in School of Rock). And in 2015, four 15-year-olds in Canberra watching the Richard Linklater film at a sleepover decided they wanted to do just that, forming a rock band the morning after that has become one of Australia’s most exciting acts: Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – a joke name suggested by one of their uncles that stuck.The four teenagers had enough punk brio that they were soon being booked to play venues they weren’t old enough to enter unchaperoned. Adults around them would assume they were in their early 20s, when they were actually 16 or 17.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Sa...

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1 week ago Youth Group on Forever Young at 20 and gen X middle age: ‘Angst doesn’t go away just because you get older’

As the band return with their sixth album, Big Whoop, frontman Toby Martin reflects on fatherhood, mortality and their love-hate relationship with their biggest hitGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwenty years ago, Youth Group recorded Forever Young, a bittersweet anthem that’s wired as tightly to the hearts of gen X indie kids as a pacemaker. The 1984 original, from German band Alphaville, was a gloriously histrionic ode to cold war anxiety. But in Youth Group’s hands, synths were replaced by mellow guitar and the song was set to footage of kids skateboarding in Sydney in 1978. It was pure sun-dappled nostalgia that shot to No 1 on the Aria charts in 2006 after it was used on The OC.So how does the band, now middle-aged, regard their biggest hit with the passing of time? Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Spin | Sophie Devine’s impact on women’s cricket should be measured in more than statistics

The New Zealand legend played with joy and fun, but was also a true fighter who spanned eras in the women’s gameAs the Women’s World Cup has progressed, sanding down the edges and turning up the four semi-finalists you might have predicted from the start, a sideshow has been quietly playing stage left. A down-to-earth sideshow – just like the woman herself – the Sophie Devine farewell.Devine made her New Zealand debut in October 2006, in an ODI and T20 series against Australia. Nineteen years later, still with the same open face and broad smile, she has played her final one-day international – a losing affair against England neither side will polish up for the mantelpiece. The most memorable moment came at the end with the affectionate guard of honour given to Devine by both sides and the Māori tribute led by Melie Kerr and sung by her teary teammates as the stadium emptied. Continue reading...

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1 week ago A moment that changed me: I hated running – until I saw it through my daughter’s eyes

She was five when I first took her to a junior parkrun and I was amazed at her attitude and ability. After a lifetime of seeing exercise as punishment, I could suddenly appreciate itAs a teenager, I was very much a “don’t put me down for cardio” girl. At school I would volunteer to be the goalkeeper as it required the least amount of movement. When it came to sports day, if I couldn’t blag a sicknote, I’d reluctantly sign up for long jump, since the long-jump pit was tucked away behind the bike shed and drew no crowds. The idea of running on the track in front of the whole school felt like a nightmare brought to life.Unlike lots of my male friends who played football or rugby for fun, I only saw exercise as punishment. Diet culture in the 90s dictated that thinness – and subsequent “goodness” – was a simple case of calories in versus calories out. Exercise was a gruelling way to stay slim and nothing more. I knew nothing of the feelgood effects of exercise, since I only ever experie...

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1 week ago The Séance of Blake Manor review – gripping gothic detective game steeped in mystery and menace

Raw Fury/Spooky Doorway; PCAn atmospheric folk-horror adventure combines colonial guilt, spiritualism and supernatural chills in a tale of secrets and seances on Ireland’s haunted west coastA remote manor house on the west coast of Ireland, an eccentric cast of misfits and ne’er-do-wells, a dapper investigator with secrets of his own. The Séance of Blake Manor sounds like the stuff of cosy Sunday evening gaming. Thankfully, this folk-horror drama has much more to offer than a bit of fun for Agatha Christie fans.It’s October 1897, and you play as private investigator Declan Ward, sent to the aforementioned manor – now a grand hotel – to discover the whereabouts of one of its guests, Evelyn Deane, who has gone missing in mysterious circumstances. What you discover is a gothic mansion filled with eccentrics: from a psychic researcher wielding a spirit camera to a vodouist oungan and a Brazilian woman tracing her family roots. They are here to attend a grand seance that will take place ...

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2 w. ago Bring The Traitors to life with these ‘simple and fun to play’ £25 Christmas crackers

If you and your family reckon you’d be great on The Traitors, then you need these £25 Christmas crackers with a Traitors game inside to play around the Christmas table

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3 w. ago Huey Morgan looks back: ‘My father left when I was seven. Music was a way to derail those feelings of not being good enough’

The musician on dealing with PTSD, his angry TV outburst, and why one radio station refused to play anything by Fun Lovin’ CriminalsBorn in 1968 in New York, Huey Morgan is a musician and broadcaster. He was 18 when he joined the US marines, and after being honourably discharged, formed Fun Lovin’ Criminals. The band’s first album, Come Find Yourself – featuring the hit single Scooby Snacks – went platinum in the UK. Huey hosts a weekly BBC 6 Music show, and his memoir, The Fun Lovin’ Criminal, is out now.I was 14 and feeling myself. I’m dressed in nylon parachute pants, a Members Only jacket, my bandana and a Van Halen necklace. On the amplifier you can see a bad graphic design of the letters “SD”, which I thought was the greatest logo of all time. It stands for Sudden Death, the name of my band. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 28 photos taking you back to the 50s and 60s, when the streets were our playground and you made your own fun

Back in the 50s and 60s, before the car was king, children ruled the streets.

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3 w. ago 4 Rejections, 1 bribe: The true, chaotic story of The Beatles breaking the US

They conquered the world and even today remain the biggest band in music history but behind the seamless story of Beatlemania, the Fab Four’s rise to global fame was a lot more complex and fraught

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3 w. ago 'I hate threesomes and group sex – I put on an act every time we go to bed'

JUST JANE: Today our agony aunt Jane O'Gorman is dealing with a new issue from a Daily Star reader who has allowed herself to be sucked into a world of play acting and adult fun

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3 w. ago Tide Lines announce huge Glasgow OVO Hydro show to celebrate 10th anniversary

The event will mark the Scottish band's biggest ever headline show as part of their tour dates across the UK, Ireland and Europe in 2026.

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3 w. ago Tide Lines to celebrate 10 years together with huge Glasgow arena gig

The Scottish band with celebrate 10 years together with their biggest ever headline show.

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3 w. ago Fury on The Celebrity Traitors as sixth Faithful axed without one baddie caught

The players are having fun getting to know each other but are proving spectacularly bad at spotting Jonathan Ross, Cat Burns or Alan Carr as The Traitors on the BBC series

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3 w. ago Carlos Alcaraz explains why critics are wrong about Six Kings Slam

Alcaraz believes exhibition events allow players a chance to relax and have fun

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3 w. ago Carlos Alcaraz: Players can criticise tour schedule and have fun at exhibitions

The world number one is playing in this week’s lucrative Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia.

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3 w. ago Steve Clarke fulfilling Scotland fun sponge role he's born to play and we just have to watch through our fingers

Keith Jackson knows this should be the fun bit but making it an ordeal is so typically Scottish Tartan Army will just have to roll with it

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4 w. ago NBA Bounce review: A costly but fun cartoony basketball game on the PS5

NBA Bounce features pretty creatures battling it out for court dominance on the Playstation console in a frenzy of fun

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last month Scotland international stars join Stewartry RFC for first Women and Girls Day

Glasgow Warriors’ Alex Craig as well as Scotland Women's players Elis Martin and Rachel McLachlan enjoyed the fun at Greenlaw.

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