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• Maze Runner: The Death Cure Pushed Back to 2018

  29-05-2016 15:48
  
  Noooooooo...
  
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• Millie Mackintosh And Hugo Taylor Confirm That They Are Back On

  29-05-2016 15:09
  
  Only a few days after her divorce...
  
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• Appaz Johnny Depp Was Scared Amber Heard Had Cheated On Him With Cara Delevingne

  29-05-2016 14:42
  
  The plot thickens...
  
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• Under Eyebrows Are Appaz The New Thing

  29-05-2016 13:41
  
  We can't even get our over brows right...
  
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• Beth Orton review – husky murmurs and scuffed mementos

  29-05-2016 13:32
  
  Attenborough Centre, Brighton
  Orton may seem as reticent as ever, but her songs about motherhood show her voice maturing with arresting results“I used to think people who had their lyrics on a stand were wankers,” says Beth Orton, eyeing the stand near her laptop. “But then, when you get to my age … ” It’s hard to believe that Orton is 45 – she looks much the same as ever as, lanky and reticent, she addresses the audience in sporadic bursts that telegra
  
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• Khloe Kardashian's Weird Vinegar Life Hack

  29-05-2016 13:09
  
  Doesssss it involve chips?
  
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• Scotty T Hits On Amber Heard Amid Her Divorce From Johnny Depp

  29-05-2016 12:35
  
  Gonna take her out on the toon, Scott?
  
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• Glee's Mark Salling Indicted On Child Pornography Charges

  29-05-2016 12:11
  
  He could be facing up to 40 years in prison...
  
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• Have Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne Just Had A BFF Bust-Up?

  29-05-2016 11:44
  
  But what about all the CaKe???
  
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• Harry Styles Has Just Been Tipped For Mega Hollywood Success

  29-05-2016 11:12
  
  He's impressed some massive movie peeps
  
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• On my radar: Jarvis Cocker’s cultural highlights

  29-05-2016 11:00
  
  The musician and broadcaster on the original Batman, the music of Cat’s Eyes, the importance of the BBC and the beautiful gameBorn in 1963 and raised in Sheffield, Jarvis Cocker founded Pulp (then called Arabacus Pulp) at the age of 15. Between 1983 and 2001 they released seven studio albums including His ’n’ Hers and Different Class. In 1996 Cocker made headlines by invading the stage during Michael Jackson’s performance of Earth Song during the Brit awards. Since Pulp&r
  
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• Radiohead review - no surprises but an intriguing, triumphant finale

  29-05-2016 10:59
  
  Roundhouse London
  The final night of the band’s residency has few shock moments, but makes up for it in intimacy and Thom Yorke’s effusive stage presence After three dates, and an almighty kerfuffle over tickets, Radiohead’s mini-residency at London’s Roundhouse comes to an end. As much attention has been given over the past three nights to those stuck outside without tickets as those inside – take the plight of one young fan who bought a last-minute ticket on Gumtr
  
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• Catfish and the Bottlemen: The Ride review – no messing

  29-05-2016 10:00
  
  (Island)Much like fiction boils down to a few archetypal stories framed by genre strictures, rock albums have recurrent motifs. The Ride, Catfish and the Bottlemen’s second album, finds this foursome – surprise winners of a Brit for breakthrough act, against far more house-trained opposition – at a tipping point. Having sold 250,000-odd copies of their debut, 2014’s The Balcony, these north-westerners (plus token Geordie guitarist Johnny Bond) are on a quest – to be
  
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• 9 Things You Have To Do At Rock In Rio Lisbon

  29-05-2016 10:00
  
  YAY!
  
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• Oedipe; 4.48 Psychosis; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Il barbiere di Siviglia – review

  29-05-2016 09:30
  
  Royal Opera House; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Glyndebourne, East Sussex
  A superb cast ignites Enescu’s neglected 1936 epic in its UK premiere. And Philip Venables makes Sarah Kane’s final work singThe opening bars of Oedipe, questing and visionary, might be by Bruckner. In a trice we plunge into expressionist harmonies and the world of Schoenberg. Then with a sensuous flourish of flute and harp we are whisked into the glassy spheres of Debussy. All that with hardly time to settle in
  
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• Beth Orton: ‘I’ve set free another part of me’

  29-05-2016 09:30
  
  Beth Orton’s latest album is a joyously abandoned swirl of words and sounds. She talks about living in the US, being a motherless mother and letting her music ‘hang out a bit’Imeet Beth Orton for lunch in a pub in Islington, north London. Dressed in a red leather biker-style jacket, T-shirt, jeans and red leather boots, she seems taller than I remember, but just as intense in her own particular way, often veering from garrulous to guarded in a single sentence. We first met in t
  
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• Mozart: Piano Trios KV 502, 542 & 564 CD review – agility and intimacy

  29-05-2016 09:15
  
  Rautio Piano Trio
  (Resonus)The Rautio Piano Trio, which specialises in period performance, was established at the Royal Academy of Music and at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove in Cornwall. This is their debut recording for Resonus. Pianist Jan Rautio here plays a fortepiano (tuned to A=430 Hz in unequal temperament), with cellist Adi Tal and violinist Jane Gordon using gut strings and lighter, shorter bows. The result is playing of great agility and intimacy which imm
  
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• Scriabin, Stockhausen: Light CD review – dazzling technique

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  Vanessa Benelli Mosell (piano)
  (Decca)Pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell has named her second album for Decca Light, a subject that preoccupied both of the composers she features. As with Licht, Stockhausen’s cycle of seven operas, the visionary Scriabin wanted to create massive, total works of art, integrating light and colour with music and dance. Benelli Mosell, once mentored by Stockhausen, plays his Klavierstuck XII, drawn from Donnerstag aus Licht, with considerable aplomb (complete with
  
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• Olga Bell: Tempo review – spry melodies and restless rhythms

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  (One Little Indian)It’s the spry unpredictability of Olga Bell’s vocal melodies and the restlessness of her rhythms that put her a cut above your average avant-garde producer. A former child classical pianist, the Russian-American’s last album, Krai, was a musical exploration of the far-flung edges of her homeland through folk and avant-garde electronics. Here she returns to the immediate electropop of her debut Diamonite, but with more muscle and shadow. There are thrills galo
  
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• Michel Petrucciani: Both Worlds Live review – astounding virtuosity

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Dreyfus)Michel Petrucciani was born with the gifts of a child prodigy and the curse of a disabling condition which restricted his growth and made playing the piano physically painful. His professional life began at age 13, and the music on this triple album was recorded six months before his death at 36. An hour of it also comes on DVD, showing how this tiny figure could dominate a concert stage by the sheer intensity of his playing. His virtuosity is astounding, suggesting at times an almost d
  
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• Leyla McCalla: A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey review – a delight

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Jazz Village)Very few singers have the qualities that 30-year-old Leyla McCalla brings to this, her second solo album. The former Carolina Chocolate Drop has an unmannered style and a melodic voice that can seem like an extension of her cello playing. She also brings the resonance of history. Born in New York to Haitian parents (and human rights activists), she now lives in New Orleans, a cultural diaspora reflected in a mix of original and traditional songs delivered in English, French and Cre
  
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• JS Bach: Clavier-Übung III CD review – Bach on a suitably baroque organ

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  James Johnstone (organ)
  (Metronome) (2 CDs)At the beginning of an ambitious series to match Bach’s great organ works to original instruments of his time, this first instalment strikes lucky with an instrument begun in the same year – 1739 – that Bach published his huge organ collection Clavier-Übung III in Leipzig. It’s in Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, by Berlin builder Joachim Wagner. Its pungent, sometimes rasping sounds have immense impact, though James Johnstone
  
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• Clare Maguire: Stranger Things Have Happened review – appealing retro set

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Virgin)Those with good memories might remember Clare Maguire from the new artist tipping season circa 2010-11, where the lungy Birmingham singer was marketed as a cut-price Florence Welch. Epic fail: bad reviews and so-so chart placings followed. Maguire turned to drink. After rehab, a change of label and adoption by the fashion set, she has gone back to basics, with a set of retro-inspired songs that don’t, frankly, refashion the wheel, but boast a certain tremulous, lived-and-loved appe
  
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• Bruce Springsteen review – 32 songs performed lustily

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  Etihad Stadium, Manchester
  The Boss plays both troubled soul and rabble-rousing bard in a three-hour-long show steeped in bonhomieBruce Springsteen has his eyes screwed shut. His fists, bound in wristbands, are clenched. Veins are popping in his temples, but not from the happy exertion of a song such as Glory Days, or the even more cardiovascular Born to Run, both of which light up the tail end of tonight’s set. He is stock-still, singing almost privately as much as to the 55,000 fans
  
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• Beth Orton: Kidsticks review – sunny side up with a shard of ice

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Anti)Twenty years ago, Beth Orton’s breakthrough Trailer Park correctgently dripped tasteful electronics over folky confessionals. Her latest collection, created in California, dives fearlessly into deeper waters. Although dependent on repetition of small riffs, syllables and phrases, these 10 songs are pleasingly unpredictable, uncoiling languorously around layers of synthetic and organic sounds. There’s grit too – the bass-strafed Petals wrestles with itself until its brawli
  
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• Flume: Skin review – guest-heavy dance with broad horizons

  29-05-2016 08:59
  
  (Transgressive)“Oh, great! Just what the world has been waiting for,” runs the cynical first response to this collaboration-heavy Australian dance package, “Disclosure from Down Under”. But while the multimillion Vevo views of F word-garnished electro power ballad Never Be Like You featuring Kai suggest the advent of a trance Eamon, Flume (the aqueous altar ego of Sydney bedroom boffin Harley Edward Streten) actually covers a wider musical waterfront than he needs to. Dis
  
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• Club MTV Officially Crashed Coventry With The Chainsmokers, Wilkinson & More!

  29-05-2016 02:16
  
  The Ricoh Arena was LIT!
  
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• Not your average pop stars, but Reggie N Bollie’s Afrobeats is the sound of summer

  29-05-2016 01:05
  
  The runners-up of last year’s X Factor, now celebrating a top 10 single, tell how their humble beginnings have shaped their successReginald Ainooson and Ishmael Hamid are not your average pop stars.Ainooson, 29, used to be a night receptionist at the Premier Inn in Farnborough and was once training to be an accountant. Hamid, 31, lives in the quiet Cambridgeshire town of St Neots with his wife, stepson aged six, and nine-month-old daughter. They make unlikely divas. You can’t imagine
  
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• Bastille, Nick Jonas & More Kick Off BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend

  29-05-2016 00:11
  
  We've had SO much fun...
  
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