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• Kenneth Gloag obituary

  17-05-2017 18:58
  
  My friend and colleague Kenneth Gloag, who has died aged 56 of cancer, was a leading authority on 20th-century British classical music. He was at the same time one of a generation of scholars whose own background in the popular culture of the 1960s and 70s helped to cement the status of rock and pop in UK academic musicology.Ken was born and brought up in Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Gloag, a roof tiler, and his wife, Violet (nee Peel). He attended Bruntsfield primary and then James Gillespie
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Gives Zero F**ks About Your Opinion Of That Pole Dancing Video

  17-05-2017 18:09
  
  And rightly so.
  
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• 17 Pairs Of Sunglasses To Celebrate Spring In

  17-05-2017 17:32
  
  Well, it would be rude not to.
  
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• #grime4Corbyn – why British MCs are uniting behind the Labour leader

  17-05-2017 16:49
  
  Can the support of stars such as JME, Stormzy and Novelist help Jeremy Corbyn beat the election odds?Last Sunday, Snapchat users seeking the latest updates from Jeremy Corbyn were greeted with something unexpected. “It’s JME on Jeremy’s Snapchat and I’m here right now to tell you to register to vote!” grinned the Tottenham-based grime MC, while the words “Jeremy Corbyn” hovered in the background.To grime fans, this was not an unexpected development. The
  
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• Bracing Change CD review – intriguing new music from Holt, Dennehy and Gilbert

  17-05-2017 16:27
  
  Jack/Doric/Carducci Quartets
  (NMC)The Wigmore Hall’s commitment to programming new music has burgeoned over the last few years, and all the works on this disc were commissioned by the venue, in collaboration with NMC and the Radcliffe Trust. These recordings are taken from premieres there in 2015 and 2016.The three works – two of them string quartets, the third a string quintet with the Schubert lineup of two cellos, rather than Mozart’s two violas – inhabit utterly diffe
  
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• Jemma Lucy's Most Outrageously Naked Moments EVER

  17-05-2017 16:14
  
  That's our Jem!
  
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• Stephen Bear’s Birthday Present For Charlotte Crosby Is The Cutest Thing Ever

  17-05-2017 15:37
  
  Charlotte Crosby Has Shared An Image Of Stephen Bear's present he bought her.
  
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• Megan McKenna Claims She'll NEVER Make Peace With Chloe Sims After Pete Wicks Feud

  17-05-2017 15:27
  
  Yikes.
  
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• Tess Ward Opens Up About Life As Harry Styles’ Rumoured Girlfriend: “It’s Horrible”

  17-05-2017 15:20
  
  The attention, that is.
  
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• Arcade Fire – 10 of the best

  17-05-2017 14:45
  
  Montreal’s band of multi-instrumentalist oddballs saved indie-rock in the 00s with sheer chorus-hollering, stadium-sweeping fervour – and championed suburban drudgery and Haiti en routeThe Canadian group’s founding members are anything but ordinary: in Win Butler, they had a Texas-raised, goofy, 6ft 3in boarding-school kid who would later be dubbed a “Serbian basketball player” by Tina Fey. The other half of the husband-wife team was Régine Chassagne, a daugh
  
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• J Hus review – shirtless stage dives and novelty dance moves

  17-05-2017 14:24
  
  St Luke’s, Glasgow
  The raucous British-Gambian MC wasn’t above confronting the crowd, but what he really wanted was to get them moving in sync‘Hey, Hus, you got to go, bro,” one of J Hus’s sidemen exasperatedly entreats the 20-year-old British-Gambian rapper at the curfew-stretching end of this show. But the MC from Stratford, east London, doesn’t seem in a hurry for the exit, making one last lunge into the grappling arms of the crowd, while security look on a
  
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• This New Pokémon Go Event Might Be The Best One Yet

  17-05-2017 14:17
  
  Pokémon Go's Adventure Week is gonna be lit.
  
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• Niall Horan Reveals Solo Album Release Timeline

  17-05-2017 13:43
  
  It's not far off!
  
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• 10 Of The Most Outrageously Sexual Celebrity Couples EVER

  17-05-2017 13:34
  
  *blushes*
  
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• Guangzhou Symphony/Yu review – an accomplished band with a bright, forward sound

  17-05-2017 13:20
  
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  Led by a brisk and businesslike Long Yu, the Chinese orchestra gave sure renditions of Britten and Stravinsky alongside two of its own commissionsThe Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra is now one of China’s leading orchestras and has toured all over the world, but never before in Britain. On the evidence of this concert with its music director Long Yu, the last of its brief visit to the UK, it is certainly a highly accomplished band, with a bright, forward sound and ple
  
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• Charlotte Dawson Features In The Celebs Go Dating Line-Up And We Can't Cope

  17-05-2017 13:11
  
  Cannot wait.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Marnie Simpson Blames The 'Altitude' For Making Her Swill Aaron Chalmers In Tignes

  17-05-2017 13:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore: New Radgie Rampage, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Harry Styles Doing Stand Up Is Everything We Hoped It Would Be And More

  17-05-2017 12:52
  
  This boy is getting cuter by the second.
  
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• How The 2017 General Election Could Affect Mental Health Provision

  17-05-2017 11:38
  
  What you need to know...
  
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• Taylor Swift Has A Not So Secret Boyfriend Who She’s Been Dating 'For Months'

  17-05-2017 11:17
  
  MONTHS WE TELL YOU.
  
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• Miley Cyrus Says “Worst Nightmare” Is ‘Wrecking Ball’ Being Played At Her Funeral

  17-05-2017 11:12
  
  “I’m never living that down."
  
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• Fan Account Of The Week: @5hBrasilNews

  17-05-2017 11:06
  
  this week's featured fan account is dedicated to Fifth Harmony...
  
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• Liam Payne Hints He's Already Married Cheryl As He Admits To Wearing Her Clothes

  17-05-2017 10:57
  
  Woah.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE! Go Behind The Scenes Of Cheat Codes & Demi Lovato's 'No Promises' Video

  17-05-2017 10:40
  
  Get a sneak peek of what it was like on-set shooting their brand new music video here...
  
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• Megan McKenna 'To Star In Own Reality Show' As She Attempts To Become A Country Sensation

  17-05-2017 09:45
  
  Y’all gonna love this!
  
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