13 h. ago The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend

Sweet documentary about Sean DeLear, of LA punk band Glue, who never landed a major record deal but was famous among celebrities That’s Sean DeLear, pronounced like “chandelier”, born Anthony Robertson in 1964. You probably haven’t heard of him: DeLear was the lead singer of a band called Glue on the underground post-punk scene in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s. On stage, he performed in drag, singing punk songs dressed like a 1960s go-do dancer in cute little dresses. The band never landed a major record deal, and DeLear died from cancer in 2017. This sweet, scrappy documentary has been lovingly put together by his friend Markus Zizenbacher.It’s not the first posthumous attempt at recognition for DeLear. In 2023, his teenage diary, written in 1979, was published under the title I Could Not Believe It. Extracts of this queer black memoir are read here on the voiceover – and they are glorious. Even aged 14 years old, living with his Christian parents in a conservative suburb of Los...

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27 h. ago FTSE 100 matches longest run of consecutive gains in eight years

The blue-chip index nudged up on Monday to mark its 11th straight day in the green.

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2 d. ago Britain's Got Talent fans astonished as singer from forgotten girl band opens semi

The 2025 live semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent got off to a sensational start as Karis Anderson stormed the stage to belt out a classic Tina Turner hit as she opened the show

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5 d. ago When is the NFL Draft 2025? Dates, start time, how to watch, draft order, top players and odds today

Tennessee Titans have the No1 pick for huge three-day event taking place in Green Bay, Wisconsin

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6 d. ago When is the NFL Draft 2025? Dates, start time, how to watch, draft order, top players and odds

Tennessee Titans have the No1 pick for huge three-day event taking place in Green Bay, Wisconsin

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8 d. ago Green Day fire back at Charli XCX’s Coachella dig: ‘Actual headliner’

Charli XCX was pictured wearing a ‘Miss Should Be Headliner’ sash at her Coachella afterparty

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

The singer also recalled the band’s breakthrough set at the festival as stand-ins for the Stone Roses in 1995.

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2 w. ago Best time of day you should mow your lawn to make grass 'lush and green'

A gardening expert has shared advice on how best to care for your lawn throughout spring

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2 w. ago Green Day criticised after causing fire at Coachella festival in California

The band’s pyrotechnics set a palm tree ablaze.

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2 w. ago Charli XCX met with backlash for wearing 'Miss Should Be Headliner' sash at Coachella afterparty

While Charli, whose real name is Charlotte Aitchison, starred on the mainstage, it was Green Day, who has won 96 awards and nominated for 218, which was the headliner.

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2 w. ago Lady Gaga, Green Day and Enhypen: 2025 Coachella festival – in pictures

After its slowest sales to date last year the 2025 edition of the California music festival was being viewed by some as an unofficial comeback with headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots

Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThe weekend’s legacy headliner offered some cathartic punk pop rebellion but the awkward setlist lacked coherence and thoughtCoachella, for the most part, presents a welcome escape from the world – 10-plus hours of live music a day in a corporate-lite fantasy land, time delineated only by set lists and tents. But if there was one band who could speak to our political moment, as they unfortunately but necessarily say – who could bring the feeling of resistance, if not actual change, to the desert – it would be Green Day, the American punk band whose seminal record American Idiot stuck a middle finger to the Bush administration in 2004. Though the album is in fact more rock opera of sweeping adolescent feeling than political commentary, the opportunity for concert catharsis, if not actual change, is high; it’s a historically excellent time to scream along to “don’t want to be an American Idiot.”Catharsis was intermittently on hand during Green Day’s ...

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2 w. ago The Kooks' Luke Pritchard reveals what really happened with THAT Arctic Monkeys feud and claims many 00s rockstars FAKED their seemingly wild lives to look cool

Led by singer and songwriter Luke, now 40, the band's 2006 debut album Inside In/Inside Out flung them into the public consciousness, going three times platinum.

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2 w. ago Chilling new video shows security guard try to warn singer's band of impending nightclub collapse that killed 221

The security guard's warning came ahead of the tragedy at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo which left 221 dead and 189 injured.

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3 w. ago Famous singer missing in nightclub horror as band member crushed to death by falling roof

The search for famous Dominican singer Rubby Perez, who was performing at the time a nightclub roof collapsed, is ongoing with family members claiming he is still under the rubble

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3 w. ago Who is Self Esteem singer Rebecca Lucy Taylor including band background and dad's health battle

Rebecca Lucy Taylor is set to perform at Glastonbury this year but before then she has to try and impress the judges on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

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3 w. ago Florence Welch buys £1.9million Somerset estate and waits YEARS to move in amid major renovations AND the house might be haunted

The lead singer of indie rock band Florence and The Machine first bought the Grade II listed home in 2021 and submitted final plans last year to partially demolish buildings on the land in order to restore it.

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3 w. ago Why Green Day singer thinks the band has 'the worst name in the world'

Green Day have been one of the most iconic rock bands in the world for more than 30 years, but fans are only just learning the X-rated meaning behind their band name

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3 w. ago Online shopping producing 2.6m plastic bags a day as high street goes green

Plastic bag use has fallen by 95% since 2015 on the high street

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