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• Police Race To Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Home After 'Swatting' Reports Of A Maid Being Shot

  05-03-2017 21:28
  
  Kim and Kanye were the victims of a 'swatting' incident on Saturday, according to reports
  
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• First Look: Little Mix Are A Cowgirl Sass Squad In These 'No More Sad Songs' Video Shoot Pics

  05-03-2017 21:00
  
  Get your first taste of the girls' brand new music video here...
  
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• We Are X: 7 Things You Didn't Know About X Japan, The Band With The Unbelievable Backstory

  05-03-2017 18:26
  
  They're the biggest band you've never heard of.
  
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• Cheryl Sparks Conspiracy She Has Already Given Birth As She 'Likes' A Pregnancy Post Online

  05-03-2017 16:04
  
  Fans of the singer and Liam Payne are convinced her baby has arrived
  
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• Police Race To Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Home Following False Reports Of A Maid Being Shot

  05-03-2017 15:38
  
  Kim and Kanye were the victims of a 'swatting' incident on Saturday, according to reports
  
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• Fan Who Gatecrashed Ariana Grande's Gig Explains How And Why He Stormed The Stage

  05-03-2017 15:05
  
  Teenage Phil Conley just wanted to say hi
  
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• BBCSO/Oramo review – Glanert premiere vividly realised

  05-03-2017 14:03
  
  Barbican, London
  Works by Nielsen and Sibelius preceded Detlev Glanert’s beguiling Megaris, with its bursts of cartoonish fun and stretches of languorSakari Oramo has been the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor for nearly four years – and the extraordinary intimacy of their rapport was showcased here. Switching between baton and bare hands, limbs constantly whirling, Oramo seemed to be physically sculpting the BBCSO’s sound. The orchestra was ultra-responsive and hy
  
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• Adele Almost Fell Off Stage While Singing Hello During Australian Concert

  05-03-2017 13:41
  
  The chart topper almost came a cropper due to her flowing dress
  
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• Olly Murs Dances Naked In Scotland - Except For A Tiny Wee Kilt

  05-03-2017 13:20
  
  The singer shared a video of himself for all his fans to enjoy
  
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• Elbow review – an embrace of ferocious tenderness

  05-03-2017 13:11
  
  Hammersmith Apollo, London
  Guy Garvey prowls the stage like a battered, beaming bear as Elbow thunder through a storm of fervent, fragile musings on matters of the heartIt’s still hard to process the fact that Elbow are now bona fide members of rock’s A league. Once seemingly perennial nearly-men, they are now such a regular fixture in Britain’s enormodome arenas that shows such as this rare, three-night run in Hammersmith appear positively intimate.Their rise is all the more r
  
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• Emma Watson Hits Back After Vanity Fair Boob Backlash

  05-03-2017 12:57
  
  The Beauty and the Beast star is "confused and stunned" that her breasts caused so much controversy
  
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• Tragedy For Jeremy McConnell As His Father Dies Following Cancer Battle

  05-03-2017 12:31
  
  The reality star has lost his dad just weeks after becoming a father himself
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Threatened With Jail By Fan Caught Up In Violent Airport Fight

  05-03-2017 11:57
  
  A young woman says she will press charges after she suffered injury during a scuffle
  
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• Sleaford Mods’ guide to modern Britain: ‘There is lots of pain’

  05-03-2017 11:00
  
  The Nottingham duo’s furious attacks on modern Britain look oddly prophetic since the Brexit vote. After four intense years on tour and with a new album, English Tapas, what do they make of the nation now?Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn are posing for photographs in Housmans, which bills itself as “London’s premier radical bookshop”. Preparing for the release of their latest album, English Tapas, the Nottingham-based duo glare into the camera, Willi
  
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• Ray BLK review – fresh and fiercely local

  05-03-2017 10:00
  
  Village Underground, London
  BBC Sound of 2017 winner Ray BLK is the full joyous package – complete with Stormzy on backing vocalsYou might have certain expectations of an unsigned artist playing what is only her third ever headline show. Emerging R&B singer Ray BLK should be talking too shrilly between songs, nerves overwriting her prepared bons mots. You would bank on a few icy R&B covers as well, to pad out the running time and signpost her now-ness, and the odd glance stolen bet
  
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• Mary Lou Williams: Live at the Cookery review – a unique talent

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  (Chiaroscuro)She claimed the unique distinction among jazz musicians of not only having played through nearly 70 years of jazz history, but of keeping up to date the whole time. As a pianist, composer and arranger, starting in 1922, aged 12, Mary Lou mastered blues, boogie-woogie, swing, bebop and even free jazz with remarkable facility. Many bandleaders, including Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, tried to sign her up, but she valued her freedom too much. This session, recorded at a New York cl
  
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• Ibibio Sound Machine: Uyai review – an exhilarating second album

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  (Merge)Fronted by British-Nigerian vocalist Eno Williams, the eight-piece band deliver a bold, exhilarating follow-up to their self-titled debut album. Lyrics are sung in part-English, part-Nigerian language Ibibio over a high-spirited mix of afrobeat, electro, rock, funk and disco. Overall the blend of styles is refreshing and well balanced, although on Joy the mishmash of synths and guitar solos sounds crowded. The vibrant Williams holds her own in busy arrangements, but her voice is at its mo
  
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• Grandaddy: Last Place review – solid, not spectacular

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  (Columbia)Jason Lytle’s two solo records rarely strayed too far from the template he’d perfected as Grandaddy frontman –synth-infused symphonic indie shot through with a nagging sense of unease – so the band’s first album in 11 years seems like a seamless continuation. Jed the 4th is a sequel to 2000’s heartbreaking Jed the Humanoid, and familiar themes of loss and loneliness recur throughout, most notably on the bleakly beautiful This Is the Pa
  
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• Ed Sheeran: ÷ review – stodgy ballads + craic-hop = winning formula

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  (Atlantic)
  Divide and rule? The singer’s artery-clogging third album will no doubt return him to No 1It is a done deal. ÷, the third LP by Ed Sheeran, is predestined to be the mammoth album of 2017 – at least, unless Taylor Swift drops hers, possibly before Christmas (and there’s no word on Harry Styles’s solo debut, which might well feature Sheeran). After going dark from social media, travelling the world as incognito as pigment allowed and penning hits for Justi
  
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• Deep Throat Choir: Be OK review – cool covers and curveballs

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  (Bella Union)Blame Glee or Gareth Malone, but you can barely move these days for community choirs. Life-affirming they may be for the participants, but for the listeners, yet another a cappella version of Lean on Me can get wearisome. The all-female Deep Throat Choir have been refining their drums-and-vocals arrangements under the direction of musician Luisa Gerstein since 2013. The east London collective’s first record consists mostly of cover versions, tackling Björk and Amy Winehou
  
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• Cloths of Heaven CD review – choral singing with real depth

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  Sansara
  (Convivium)It’s not hard to find outstanding professional choral singing (we seem to be living through a golden age) so to stand out today a new choir has to have something else to offer in addition to perfect intonation and a clean, pure sound. Sansara, while possessing these qualities in abundance, marks itself out by having no single conductor. Instead, several individuals step out from the choir and direct according to their specialism, giving this impressive debut recording a
  
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• The Winter’s Tale; Pelléas et Mélisande – review

  05-03-2017 08:30
  
  Coliseum, London; Theatre Royal, Glasgow
  A top ENO cast and orchestra do justice to Ryan Wigglesworth’s The Winter’s Tale. Plus Debussy to die for at Scottish OperaPaddling palms and pinching fingers… I’ll have thy beauty scratch’d with briers… When you do dance, I wish you a wave o’ the sea… The Winter’s Tale has so much music of its own, refined in the fire of Shakespeare’s strange late play, it is hard to think an operatic version
  
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• Brahms: Serenades 1 & 2 CD review – Jaime Martín in the spotlight

  05-03-2017 08:25
  
  Gävle Symphony Orchestra/Martín
  (Ondine)Anyone who champions Brahms’s gloriously eccentric, lyrical and capacious Serenades – No 1 in D with six movements, No 2 in A with five – deserves full attention. Here they get it. Jaime Martín was chiefly a flautist until switching careers to full-time conducting in 2013. He gets three big pictures on this CD – the first in a series of Brahms recording with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra – whereas Brahms
  
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• Bartók: The String Quartets CD review – profound understanding

  05-03-2017 08:20
  
  Végh Quartet(Praga Digitals) (2 CDs)The autobiographical story of Bartók’s six string quartets is as powerful as that of Beethoven’s quartets: a lifelong absorption in the form, which produced utterly compelling and completely distinctive pieces. From the meditative First of 1909, through the rhapsodic Second of 1918 and the acerbic Third of 1929, to the elegiac Sixth of 1939, these works reinvent the string quartet form. They have surely never found more idiomatic inte
  
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• Birmingham set to become the capital of ‘people’s classical music ’ says Julian Lloyd Webber

  05-03-2017 01:06
  
  Cellist looks foward to heading new £57m conservatoire but is concerned about government cutsWhen the doors of the Birmingham Conservatoire open this summer, and music students walk into their new home, a key jigsaw piece in a fresh cultural quarter for the city will slot into place. But the arrival of this £57m building will mean more than just a substantial investment in the artistic life of Birmingham. For Julian Lloyd Webber, the conservatoire’s principal, it will mark a ch
  
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