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• Louis Tomlinson Has Praised Simon Cowell Over The Way He Handled One Direction's Hiatus News

  27-03-2016 16:52
  
  He has also revealed when he told him about Freddie...
  
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• Kris Jenner Shares Adorable Easter Throwback Pic Of Kim & Kourtney Kardashian

  27-03-2016 16:29
  
  SO CUTE!
  
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• Vicky Pattison Shares Loved Up Snap With Spencer Matthews On Instagram

  27-03-2016 16:09
  
  THESE TWO!
  
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• Niall Horan Snapchats On The Tube & Proves He’s Just Like The Rest Of Us

  27-03-2016 15:48
  
  HE IS ONE OF US!
  
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• Adele Apologises After Fan Was Left Hospitalised At Glasgow Concert

  27-03-2016 15:31
  
  They were injured when a chain fell from the ceiling...
  
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• The Kardashians Threw Chrissy Teigen A Baby Shower & We Wish We Were There

  27-03-2016 14:56
  
  It looks AMAZING!
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Charlotte Crosby Flaunts Gym Body After Posting Amazing Transformation Pic Giving Us ALL The Fitspo

  27-03-2016 14:24
  
  What. A. Worldie.
  
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• Zoella & Tanya Burr Threw An Easter Egg Hunt For Jim Chapman & Alfie Deyes On The Best Double Date Ever

  27-03-2016 14:01
  
  Relationship goals from Team Internet...
  
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• 'I play Jesus three': landmark operatic production of the Easter story, performed by Manchester's homeless - video

  27-03-2016 11:09
  
  Critically-acclaimed charity Streetwise Opera and ensemble The Sixteen perform Bach’s iconic oratorio St Matthew Passion as an immersive fully-staged opera in Campfield Market, Manchester. Director Penny Woolcock explains, “it’s about suffering and survival, something that very few of us will ever experience.”The world premiere of the full 70 minute performance will be available on the Guardian from Monday 28th March Continue reading...
  
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• Zayn: Mind of Mine CD review – sultry songs from the horizontal VIP lounge

  27-03-2016 10:00
  
  (RCA)Over the past half decade, R&B has increasingly staggered off the dancefloor in a daze, landing on expensive soft furnishings to stare into an empty glass. The man mostly – but not exclusively – responsible for this development is Abel “The Weeknd”’ Tesfaye, whose heavy-lidded influence on the mainstream shows little sign of abating. As the success of Justin Bieber’s recent Purpose album testifies, the trend for horizontality in pop has transformed ev
  
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• Laurie Anderson: ‘My dog’s character was pure empathy. I tried to express that’

  27-03-2016 10:00
  
  The artist on curating the Brighton festival, Lou Reed, her new film and what her pet terrier taught her about growing oldArtist and musician Laurie Anderson has directed Heart of a Dog, a feature film inspired by the life and death of her terrier Lolabelle, and dedicated to her late husband, Lou Reed. She is also guest director of this year’s Brighton festival.Where are you right now? I’m told you’re somewhere in Brazil.[Over the phone] I’m the only artist at a
  
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• Festtage 2016; Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Dudamel review – Barenboim’s Easter parade

  27-03-2016 09:30
  
  Schiller theatre/ Philharmonie, Berlin; Barbican, London
  For his 20th Festtage, Daniel Barenboim rustled up electrifying Elgar, all-star Parsifal – and a trip to the underworld with Frank GehryBoth Elgar’s symphonies featured in Festtage 2016 – the “festival days” held in Berlin each Easter, hosted by Daniel Barenboim and his Staatskapelle orchestra – in a programme otherwise dominated by Gluck, Mahler and Wagner. The question “Why Elgar?” had a si
  
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• Bruch: Piano Quintet, String Quartet No 1, Swedish Dances CD review – a spirited performance

  27-03-2016 09:05
  
  Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane (piano) (Hyperion)Moody Max Bruch (1838-1920), best known for his sweet-natured violin concerto, spent three not entirely harmonious years in Liverpool conducting the Philharmonic, where he befriended Andrew Kurtz, chairman of the Phil and a considerable amateur pianist, and for whom he wrote his typically tuneful G minor Piano Quintet. It’s given a spirited performance here by Piers Lane and the Goldners, who add the Brahmsian String Quartet No 1 in C mi
  
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• White Denim: Stiff review – southern rockers lack cohesion

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  (Downtown/Sony Red)Despite the departure of half the Texan band to work with Leon Bridges, White Denim’s sixth album largely picks up where they left off. Corsicana Lemonade, released in 2013, was heavily indebted to 70s southern rock, and Had 2 Know (Personal) and the breakneck Holda You (I’m Psycho) once again look to the Allman Brothers for inspiration, although the overall effect comes closer to a less-dancefloor-filling Black Keys. Variety comes in the form of a gently funky sou
  
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• The Range: Potential review – wannabe superstars centre stage

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  (Domino)For his second album, Brooklyn-based producer James Hinton has developed a conceit that’s beguiling if you know the back story but perplexing if you don’t. Each vocal sample on the record was borrowed from an aspiring singer or rapper in an obscure corner of YouTube. The title is optimistic: few of these vocalists display obvious potential, and their presence amid Hinton’s finely calibrated beats can be jarring. The clockwork production accentuates their awkwardness. Bu
  
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• Lakou Mizik: Wa Di Yo review – a joyous antidote to Haiti’s hard times

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  (Cumbancha)This sprawling ensemble was born in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. With the tiny Caribbean republic in chaos and swept by cholera, musicians Steeve Valcourt and Jonas Attis imagined a group that could be an antidote to harsh times, an act of national regeneration that summoned the varied strands and spirits of Haitian music. This cross-generational nine-piece is the result. Their debut is a joyous, glad-to-be-alive affair, packed with voices, chants and call
  
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• Kiran Leonard: Grapefruit review – esoteric, orchestral and abrasive

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  (Moshi Moshi)The underground is full of prolific misfits who won’t settle into one genre. Few of them are as prodigious as Kiran Leonard, just 20 and on his second studio album, having started recording in his early teens. Freak-folk currents still run through tracks such as Fireplace, but Grapefruit is more wilful and abrasive than his last effort, 2013’s Bowler Hat Soup. Sometimes, as on the 16-minute centrepiece, Pink Fruit, Leonard’s like Jeff Buckley fronting an orchestral
  
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• K Michelle: More Issues Than Vogue review – exquisitely raw R&B

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  (Atlantic)If you like your R&B confrontational and full-bodied, then singer, songwriter and reality TV star K Michelle’s third album is the perfect antidote to the genre’s whinier exponents. “I’m coming straight from the gut,” she warns on rattling opener Mindful, while the excellent If It Ain’t Love skews the vintage R&B ballad with a chorus of “It’s crazy, amazing, we fucked it up”. Elsewhere she channels early Mary J on the piano-l
  
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• Georg Anton Benda: Sinfonias CD review – too much of a good thing

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  Prague Sinfonia/Benda
  (Sony)The most interesting of a long line of musicians in the Benda family from Bohemia was Georg Anton (1722-95). He greatly impressed Mozart with his melodramas in which words were spoken over music (Mozart used the technique in Zaide). A new recording of one or two of these could have helped lighten the diet of the six sinfonias presented here. Their cheerful, mid-century style is appealing, with some deft crescendos and syncopated rhythms, but 18 short movements in a ro
  
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• Geoff Eales: Transience review – quiet drama with an exquisite touch

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  (Fuzzy Moon)As both a pianist and composer, Geoff Eales has an exquisite touch, delicate but purposeful. The dominant mood of these 12 pieces is quiet and reflective, yet his melodic lines are so clear that their gentle drama carries you along. The combination of instruments is very effective too. Bassist Chris Laurence and drummer Martin France have recorded with Eales before and play prominent and active roles, while the voice of Brigitte Beraha and trumpet of Noel Langley make a magical blend
  
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• Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra; Brahms: Piano Quartet No 1 CD review – precision, vigour and clarity

  27-03-2016 08:45
  
  Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra/ Harth-Bedoya
  (Harmonia Mundi)Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra (1954) has become a classic, with several fine recordings available. This new entry to the catalogue shines out with its precision, vigour and clarity of sound. The Intrada, taken briskly here, instantly grabs your attention. Glistening woodwind flurries and string skitters and cascades are deftly executed in the second-movement scherzo (Capriccio notturno ed Arioso: Vivace). These feel like pr
  
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• Jazz composer, professor David Baker dies at 84

  27-03-2016 01:45
  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — David Baker, a prolific jazz composer and musician who founded the jazz studies program at Indiana University, died Saturday at age 84, the school said in a statement.
  
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