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• Thousands of David Bowie fans attend charity concert celebrating his 70th birthday

  08-01-2017 23:37
  
  Tuesday marks a year since the musician’s death.
  
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• 'They foiled me': Mariah Carey blames production team for New Year disaster

  08-01-2017 23:07
  
  Singer says ‘ear monitors were not working’ during showProduction company denies ‘absurd’ reports of sabotage Mariah Carey has issued a partial explanation for her glitch-plagued performance in New York City on New Year’s Eve, saying she was “put into the hands of a production team with technical issues who chose to capitalise on circumstances beyond our control”. Related: Dick Clark Productions denies 'sabotaging' Mariah Carey New Year's Eve showContinu
  
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• Golden Globes 2017: Full Winners List

  08-01-2017 21:51
  
  Here's who won big...
  
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• Singer songwriter Peter Sarstedt dies aged 75

  08-01-2017 18:14
  The Where Do You Go To My Lovely singer died with his close family around him.
  
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• Theater, dance, music highlight 41st Spoleto Festival USA

  08-01-2017 17:55
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky's sumptuous opera "Eugene Onegin," a concert by jazz master Dee Dee Bridgewater and performance by flamenco dance star Marla Pages are just a few of the many highlights promised in this spring's 2017 Spoleto Festival USA.
  
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• BBCSO/Gardner review – a thrilling show of ferocity and feistiness

  08-01-2017 15:28
  
  Barbican, London
  Edward Gardner dug deeper into Janáček, while violinist Tasmin Little explored the languid lyricism of SzymanowskiIn the concert hall and on disc Edward Gardner has been working his way through Janáček’s orchestral works, and his latest concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, which focused on music from central Europe, was framed by two of them. The miniature tone poem Jealousy was originally intended as the overture to the opera Jenůfa, but w
  
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• Scarlett Moffatt Will Present A Brand New Series Of Streetmate

  08-01-2017 14:55
  
  "I remember watching Davina on Streetmate when I was younger and thinking, 'Females can present entertainment shows too. I want to do that when I'm older.'"
  
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• Tom Hardy Teases That He Might Be In The New Star Wars Movie

  08-01-2017 14:40
  
  Could Tom be headed to a Galaxy far, far away? He won't answer yes or no...
  
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• Gary Barlow’s naked Let It Shine performance and Jennifer Hudson’s raw singing on The Voice thrill TV fans

  08-01-2017 14:25
  
  TV fans were overcome with choice as ITV and the BBC went head to head with new talent shows
  
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• Joe Jonas And Sophie Turner Date Night Details Revealed

  08-01-2017 13:57
  
  The loved up pair first found love at the MTV Europe Music Awards and are now getting ready for the Golden Globe Awards
  
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• NYOGB/Wilson review – a thrilling display of teenage talent

  08-01-2017 13:56
  
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  Under John Wilson’s precise control, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain brought its massive forces to bear on Szymanowski and RachmaninovOne thing that concerts by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain unfailingly deliver is a big sound. More than 150 young instrumentalists were assembled on stage for the orchestra’s latest programme, which was conducted by John Wilson, and as usual they offered a thrilling display of teenage talent. But,
  
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• Lady Gaga Teases Fans With First Behind-The-Scenes Shot Of Super Bowl Performance Rehearsal

  08-01-2017 13:36
  
  Mother Monster is hard at work to make sure millions of fans will be impressed by her halftime performance
  
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• Blac Chyna Wows Fans With Incredible Post-Baby Body

  08-01-2017 13:19
  
  The 28-year-old reality star is back in incredible shape just weeks after giving brith to baby Dream
  
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• Made In Chelsea's Original Stars Are Being Lined Up To Make Shock Return

  08-01-2017 12:59
  
  Caggie Dunlop, Millie Mackintosh, Hugo Taylor and Spencer Matthews could all be heading back to the reality show
  
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• Zayn Malik And Taylor Swift Spotted Filming Fifty Shades Music Video In London

  08-01-2017 12:30
  
  The pop duo have teamed up for Fifty Shades Darker song I Don't Wanna Live Forever
  
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• The xx: I See You review – a new touch of colour

  08-01-2017 10:00
  
  (Young Turks)
  The xx have come out of their shell for their least insular album yet – but don’t expect Justin BieberPregnant with potential meanings, the title of the xx’s immersive third album gradually reveals itself over the course of 10 new songs. It is not accusative – “I see you, stealing that guitar sound” – but more in keeping with the ongoing themes of this minimal, intimate band; more consolatory. “I see you”, this album says, &ldqu
  
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• Sundara Karma: Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect review – identikit indie

  08-01-2017 09:00
  
  RCALooking like rock gods-in-waiting is unlikely to do Berkshire four-piece Sundara Karma much harm, and neither is frontman Oscar Pollock’s androgynous image. It’s a shame, then, that their songs are so much less noteworthy. Their debut album starts brightly enough, the Foals-like Loveblood fizzing with energy and the harmonies of Happy Family’s intro evoking Fleet Foxes. They fail to sustain the quality throughout, however, and too often seem to have set a course for Arcade F
  
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• Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hong Quang: Ha Noi Duo review – old and new finely fused

  08-01-2017 09:00
  
  (ACT)Nguyên Lê is a maverick, a hyper-fluent guitarist with a penchant for mixing up genres. Born in Paris of Vietnamese descent, he’s regarded as a jazz musician, though his most celebrated albums pay tribute to 60s rock gods like Hendrix and Floyd. Here he teams up with a young traditionalist, Ngô Hong Quang, on fiddle and lute to portray “the soul of Vietnam” and its quickening evolution. There are jaunty folkish tunes, temple bells and ethereal melodies wi
  
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• Dropkick Murphys: 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory review – rudimentary

  08-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Born and Bred)Though punk’s boorish offspring, oi!, is still reviled in Britain, it has some champions in America, chief among them Boston’s Dropkick Murphys. The rowdy six-piece band’s ninth album gives oi! a Celtic twist, resulting in a spittle-flecked version of the Pogues had they written football songs in the late 70s. It’s hard to fault their community-minded spirit – they run a trust for people with drink and drug problems – or their affinity with the
  
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• Chris Ingham Quartet: Dudley review – still dazzled by Dud

  08-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Downhome)Among his many talents, Dudley Moore’s gifts as a jazz composer seem to have been forgotten. These 16 pieces, some unearthed from the soundtracks of his films and TV shows, some from albums and singles recorded with his trio in the 60s, are unfailingly tuneful and spiced with gentle harmonic guile. Coming to them afresh, Chris Ingham finds unexpected diversity beneath the smooth, bright surface. At one extreme is the playful theme tune of Not Only... But Also, at the other the me
  
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• Bonobo: Migration review – perfect for gazing dreamily out of windows

  08-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Ninja Tune)On this sixth album, Brighton boy Simon Green, now based in LA, finds a theme perfect for his melancholic downtempo electronica: travel, diaspora and belonging. Migration is a personal global journey, informed by a recent bereavement; found sounds from across continents mingle with horns, harp, guitar and piano, bolstered by beats ranging from two-step to cavernous trip-hop. New York–based Moroccan band Innov Gnawa contribute vocals to Bambro Koyo Ganda, with its clubby, hypnot
  
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• The Blue Aeroplanes: Welcome, Stranger! review – jangling like it’s 1991

  08-01-2017 08:59
  
  (Art Star)“I tapped directions on the app,” begins the new record by Bristol stalwarts the Blue Aeroplanes, whose heyday was the 80s/90s cusp; they were beloved by REM. Welcome, Stranger! is pointedly set in the present day, but the Aeroplanes – dormant for many years since 2011’s Anti-Gravity – still play guitars so jangly they almost sound like bagpipes on Sweet, Like Chocolate. The main draw of this art-rock band (they have a dancer) remains the offhand, half-spo
  
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• Bach: Cantatas 54, 82 & 170 CD review – an early 2017 favourite

  08-01-2017 08:30
  
  Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Arcangelo/Cohen(Hyperion)Director/harpsichordist Jonathan Cohen and his elite period ensemble Arcangelo have shaped this engrossing disc, of three Bach cantatas and two instrumental Sinfonias, around the British countertenor Iestyn Davies. Two of the cantatas (BWV 170, Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust, with its tender, lullaby-like opening, and BWV 54, Widerstehe doch der Sünde, a spicy, energetic challenge to the devil and all his works) were wri
  
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• Tchaikovsky Ballet Suites for Piano Duo CD review – sparkle and style

  08-01-2017 08:20
  
  Mari Kodama and Momo Kodama (piano)
  (Pentatone)The Japanese sisters Mari and Momo Kodama grew up hearing The Nutcracker. That deep familiarity gives their performance of the suite here, transcribed for two pianos by Arensky (1861-1906), particular sparkle and style. The Sugar Plum Fairy sounds as delicate on piano as for the celesta or the original orchestration, and the delicious Pas de deux loses nothing in translation. Rachmaninov’s version of Sleeping Beauty, made when he was still in
  
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• Schubert: String Quartet in G major; String Quartet in C minor CD review – a breathless treat

  08-01-2017 08:20
  
  Doric String Quartet(Chandos)The feverish unease that pervades these late Schubert works, with their ambiguous shifts from major to minor, tremolo triplets and searing outbursts, is perfectly captured by the excellent Doric String Quartet in this latest in their series for Chandos. They attack the 1820 “Quartettsatz” in C minor with alarming intensity, flashing through its single movement with fiery determination, and maintain the same tension throughout the 50 minutes of the massive
  
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• Ex-bandmates plan memorial concert to mark David Bowie's 70th birthday

  08-01-2017 08:05
  
  There are a number of events taking place to mark what would have been the singer’s 70th birthday.
  
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