4 d. ago Two 'house bands' from same Bolton pub vying for top music festival slot

'There's rivalry between us, but it's all fun and games'

Culture

6 d. ago The infamous Britpop 1995 showdown between Blur and Oasis is coming to the stage

The chart showdown between the warring bands - when Blur released 'Country House' on the same day as Oasis's 'Roll With It' - will be played out on the stage in a piece called The Battle due to open in Birmingham next February

Politics

6 d. ago Kneecap dropped from festival slot as MPs call out ‘half an apology’

Belfast-formed hip-hop trio have been accused of ‘deflection’ by family members of slain MPs Jo Cox and David Amess, after they shared a fresh statement over alleged ‘kill your local MP’ clip

Politics

7 d. ago Kneecap dropped from major festival slot after controversial 'kill MPs' remark

Rap group Kneecap, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí who use the stage names of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and J. J. Ó Dochartaigh, have been removed from a major UK festival

Events

1 week ago ‘If Jesus and Buddha had our work schedule, they’d have fallen out too’: boyband Five on bullying, Britney and their blockbuster return

After being fast-tracked to stardom, the bad boys of Y2K pop butted heads and burned out. They explain how they faced their demons for an arena-sized reunion – and why Simon Cowell was ‘a proper winker’In September 1998, amid a rocketing pop career that would end up with every one of their 11 singles reaching the UK Top 10, British boyband Five went missing. They were due to visit the US, where the lascivious When the Lights Go Out had got huge, but Five – Ritchie Neville (curtains), Scott Robinson (spiky hair), Abz Love (hats), Sean Conlon (baby-faced), and Jason “J” Brown (eyebrow ring) – had other ideas. “We decided we wanted a couple of days off,” says Scott, now without spikes and sporting a thick salt-and-pepper beard. “So we booked our own flights back to the UK.”Rather than visit family like everyone else, J returned to the band’s shared house in Surrey. “There were fans camping outside, literally in tents on the little lawn,” he says, shaking his shaved head, now minus the ...

Politics

3 w. ago Jarvis Cocker says Pulp will only play Glastonbury in ‘life or death situation’

Pulp made a name for themselves with a stand-in headline slot at the festival in 1995

Events