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• Glastonbury 2015: Saturday daytime as it happened – Burt Bacharach, Sleaford Mods, Adele and the build up to Kanye West

  27-06-2015 22:19
  
  The sun shone throughout at Worthy Farm and during the day we saw performances from everyone from Burt Bacharach to Idris Elba to Sleaford Mods, plus some added Adele, and much else besides Saturday night at Glastonbury - liveThursday at Glastonbury – as it happenedWednesday at Glastonbury – as it happenedFriday daytime at Glastonbury – as it happened
  Friday night at Glastonbury – as it happened 9.13pm BST9.04pm BST It’s a flatly brilliant and remarkably full throttle performance – i
  
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• Slaves/Sleaford Mods/the Pop Group at Glastonbury 2015 review – a triple-bill of righteous anger

  27-06-2015 20:00
  
  John Peel stage
  From Slaves’ semi-comic social observation to the Pop Group’s corrupted disco, the crowd gets smaller as the reception grows louder during a Saturday afternoon post-punk interludeLet the shouting commence! The Shangri-Hell protest movement occupies the John Peel stage for an afternoon, dispatching its angriest barricade breachers to loudhail the Truth at the media-brainwashed hordes waiting for Years & Years.First up, Kent’s Slaves take a semi-comic tack on social obser
  
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• Voodoo review – a lost Harlem Renaissance opera soars

  27-06-2015 19:51
  
  Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York
  Unheard for almost 90 years, an opera by Harry Lawrence Freeman, an African American composer compared to Wagner, was audacious and blazingly powerfulThe attention-grabbing potential of an “undiscovered masterpiece” is easy to understand. Given history’s penchant for doing certain artists dirty, the public can easily entertain the idea that our grasp of aesthetic history might be lacking. Still, after reading the advance hype around the latest
  
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• Burt Bacharach at Glastonbury 2015 review – sunny hits and sweet familiarity

  27-06-2015 19:03
  
  Pyramid stage
  A greatest-hits set brimming with karaoke lounge classics goes down well with the lazy afternoon crowd at the main stage
  There’s only one rule for artists performing Glastonbury: play the
  hits and nothing but the hits. Today’s afternoon slot at the main
  stage should be a breeze for Bacharach, the man with credits on more
  timeless singles than the long-drop bog seats have bacterial
  infections.His slight frame covered in a blocky gold-buttoned blazer and blue and
  white striped sh
  
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• Rudimental at Glastonbury 2015 review – smashing it with a drum'n'bass carnival

  27-06-2015 17:40
  
  Other stage
  Rudimental’s riotous energy keeps the crowd bouncing like a giant exercise class, helped along by a procession of guests from George Clinton to Dizzee Rascal It’s right around this time that I’ve started to regret not wearing wellies: the Other stage is a slopfest. The warmup DJ plays a Foo Fighters track and you’re reminded just how massive it would have been if they’d have played on the Pyramid on Friday.But instead we have Rudimental and a mass of people slipping and sli
  
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• Taylor Swift may have triumphed, but Apple will still call the tune

  27-06-2015 17:00
  
  The tech giant’s retreat over paying artists during trials of its music streaming service looked like a defeat. In fact, it may have cleared the way to successWith the launch of the Apple Music streaming service just two days away, the music industry has been indulging in cliffhanger negotiations worthy of Greece and its creditors.Few can have missed the recent public announcement by Taylor Swift, one of the biggest-selling artists on the planet, that she would not be allowing any of her music
  
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• Should you take your parents to Glastonbury?

  27-06-2015 17:00
  
  A growing number of young revellers are enjoying Glastonbury with their parents, says a newspaper report. Good idea?I’m writing this from a tipi at Glastonbury. Just round the corner is a bashed-up old van, converted into a bedroom with a mattresses and some hanging flags. A mum, probably in her 60s, is sharing box wine with her two adult children, all dancing around to tinny reggae – I can hear a bit of Desmond Dekker wafting over now. Continue reading...
  
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• Oh No! Jessie J Is 'In A Lot Of Pain' In Hospital

  27-06-2015 16:34
  
  Pop star communicates with fans via Instagram...
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: Friday evening as it happened – Florence + the Machine, Mark Ronson and more

  27-06-2015 16:34
  
  It’s a Foo-less Friday, but we’ve got Florence headlining, the Libertines, Mark Ronson, and all the action from around the siteSaturday at Glastonbury – liveThursday at Glastonbury – as it happenedWednesday at Glastonbury – as it happenedFriday at Glastonbury – as it happened 1.03am BST A very good night to all. And I’ll see you tomorrow. 12.45am BST I was desk-dancing really quite vigorously while sitting at the table watching that from Hot Chip.Continue reading...
  
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• 'Nobody wants to be called a hippy': searching for a lost tribe at Glastonbury

  27-06-2015 15:15
  
  Glastonbury is often seen as a chance for nine-to-fivers to turn on, tune in and drop out for a long weekend. But what about those living an alternative lifestyle full time?“That thing about washing and not washing is bollocks,” says John Jones. “There’s just as many hippies who are really into washing as not. And there’s just as many straight people who hardly wash at all.”Jones is a tall, lean 51-year-old in a red shirt and trilby. We’re standing among the shiatsu massage tents o
  
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• Caitlyn And Kylie Jenner Feature In New 'I Am Cait' Trailer

  27-06-2015 14:29
  
  New teaser shows daughter hugging her transgender dad...
  
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• Glastonbury’s Healing Fields: wellbeing is not just for hippies

  27-06-2015 14:07
  
  Glastonbury’s focus on making the world a ‘saner, greener, healthier place’ has grown from new age niche to mainstream concern. At the Green Fields, you can take your pick from gong baths, laughter workshops and partner yogaIt’s only 11am on the first morning of Glastonbury and I have stumbled into a nightmare. Fifty festival goers yank their faces into Joker-like grins, “ha”-ing, “ho”-ing and “he”-ing in a circle of maniacal guffaws. A teacher stands at the front, jeering th
  
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• Seth Troxler at Glastonbury 2015: 'Be cool. Have a pulled pork sandwich'

  27-06-2015 13:49
  
  The superstar DJ talks about life beyond beats, the importance of barbecue – and being entrusted with a secret family recipeSeth is eating a pulled pork sandwich with his granddad’s special barbecue sauce. How many of these have you eaten so far?Continue reading...
  
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• One Direction's Niall Horan And Louis Tomlinson Hit Glastonbury

  27-06-2015 13:11
  
  Pop heart throbs join thousands of festivalgoers in Somerset...
  
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• Jamie xx at Glastonbury 2015 review – a sunset-backed journey through sound

  27-06-2015 12:37
  
  Park stageDitching the more ghostly vibes of his solo album, Jamie xx’s live set features piano house highs, rumbling bass and a crowd that won’t stop swelling
  Never let it be said that the weather doesn’t know what it’s up to at Glastonbury. From the sun finally coming out during Brian Wilson’s appearance in 2005 to the rain quite rightly deciding to ruin Catfish and the Bottlemen’s Other Stage set earlier today, the rapidly changing climatic conditions may have less to do with fort
  
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• All Hail Kendall Jenner - The New Queen Of Instagram

  27-06-2015 12:03
  
  Move aside Kimye, there's a new sheriff in town...
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: Florence and the Machine wow the crowds

  27-06-2015 11:24
  
  The band stepped in after the Foo Fighters had to pull out, and it seems they didn’t disappoint.
  
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• Celebs React To US Gay Marriage Ruling

  27-06-2015 11:16
  
  Stars take to Twitter to join in celebration of historic ruling...
  
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• Double Hardy! See Tom Hardy As The Krays In Movie Clip

  27-06-2015 10:33
  
  Star plays both notorious gangster brothers in Legend...
  
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