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• Y Tŵr review – Welsh-language opera traces marriage's highs and lows

  22-05-2017 18:48
  
  Sherman Theatre, CardiffIn a landmark commission for Music Theatre Wales, Guto Puw’s expressive adaptation of a Gwenlyn Parry play poignantly charts a couple’s dreams and disappointmentsFrom youth to old age, from hope to disillusionment, Guto Puw’s new piece for Music Theatre Wales traces the ritual passage through life of a man and woman. Never named, they are anyone and everyone: here is the predicament of the human condition. Y Tŵr – the title meaning The Tower,
  
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• Buddhist folk and pyrotechnics: Emmy the Great on a musical sojourn in China

  22-05-2017 18:11
  
  I spent four weeks in Xiamen, southern China, interviewing people and incorporating their stories into my new album. Here’s what I learned … In Xiamen, I met musicians working across every genre. These included millennials in a traditional Nan Yin troupe, a group of septuagenarians who played Hawaii-influenced “island music”, a feminist pop singer influenced by Jill Scott and Frank Ocean, a Buddhist DJ, a sound artist working with feedback loops, and a kawaii-aesthetic s
  
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• How we made Chesney Hawkes' The One and Only

  22-05-2017 16:57
  
  ‘People either loved it or hated it. At the Brit awards, Phillip Schofield got a pitchfork and pushed me into hell’My dad was in the Tremeloes. As a kid, I watched him – Len “Chip” Hawkes – in his leather trousers with his shirt open and girls screaming. “That’s what I want to do,” I thought. But without the leather trousers. By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings. It wa
  
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• 11 Reality Stars Who ALWAYS Manage To Stumble Into Major Drama

  22-05-2017 16:56
  
  Silly famous people...
  
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• La Traviata review – subtle and serious

  22-05-2017 16:06
  
  Glyndebourne, Lewes
  Tom Cairns’s stripped-back production of Verdi’s opera, first seen in 2014, eschews histrionic tragedy in favour of deep, contained sadness
  Less means infinitely more in Tom Cairns’s production of La Traviata, first seen in 2014, now returning for its first festival revival. Aware that the work’s realism was considered controversial in Verdi’s lifetime, Cairns stages it as a modern-dress conversation piece, from which any trace of melodrama or se
  
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• Brad Mehldau Trio review – searching, storytelling jazz at its finest

  22-05-2017 15:52
  
  Barbican, London
  Mehldau is one of the contemporary form’s great improvisers, and with Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier he made unexpected but riveting connectionsSouth Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker maintain that if two scenes in a show can’t be linked by a “but” or a “therefore” then you can’t tell an interesting story. It seems to be a conviction that pianist Brad Mehldau, one of contemporary jazz’s great improvising tale-tellers, feel
  
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• Behind The Glitter: Hey Violet Talk Us Through Their ‘Break My Heart’ Video

  22-05-2017 13:58
  
  Watch the band walk us through their music vid in our next Laid Bare commentary...
  
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• Kendall Jenner Wore Jorts On The Red Carpet At Cannes

  22-05-2017 13:48
  
  Is she okay hun.
  
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• This Is Why Tove Lo Tattooed An Actual Vagina On Her Body

  22-05-2017 13:35
  
  And it's a GREAT reason...
  
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• Bella Hadid And Anthony Joshua Have Been ‘Flirting Up A Storm’ After Meeting At GQ Party

  22-05-2017 13:19
  
  Fancy.
  
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• Rap Rundown: Our Generation

  22-05-2017 13:01
  
  In this week’s Rap Rundown, we’ve got JME linking up with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to discuss the importance of young people voting, Dave performing on Later…with Jools Holland, Skepta winning two Ivor Novello awards and Stormzy announcing his collaboration with The X Factor’s Little Mix.
  
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• Liam Payne Confirms Ed Sheeran ‘Strip That Down’ Cameo

  22-05-2017 12:53
  
  "It's amazing, it's the best thing ever."
  
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• Liam Payne Jokes He’s Worried He’s About To Ruin Ed Sheeran’s Number One Single Streak

  22-05-2017 12:24
  
  We doubt it babes...
  
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• An Accidental Offensive Gesture Had To Be Removed From Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

  22-05-2017 12:23
  
  Can you tell what the Splatoon character is doing?
  
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• Drake Beats Adele’s Billboard Awards Record With 13 Wins

  22-05-2017 12:00
  
  "Life is like toilet paper, either you're on a roll, or taking sh*t from assholes," Drake said during his acceptance speech.
  
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• Who Is Abbie Holborn? Everything You Need To Know About The Geordie Shore Star

  22-05-2017 11:58
  
  There’s a new Teessider in the Toon...
  
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• Life Is Strange 2 Is Coming & We’re Already Freaking Out About Making The Wrong Decisions

  22-05-2017 11:45
  
  The sequel has been in development since LAST YEAR.
  
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• Vanessa Hudgens Rapped A Nicki Minaj Verse At The Billboard Music Awards And The Crowd Went Wild

  22-05-2017 11:38
  
  Well we weren't expecting that.
  
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• Everything We Know About The Witcher Netflix Show

  22-05-2017 11:25
  
  This is going to be epic.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Admits She'd Be Well Up For A Geordie Shore Reunion And The World Is Alright Again

  22-05-2017 11:10
  
  PRAISE THE GEORDIE LORD
  
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• 5 Little Mix Collaborations That We NEED To Happen

  22-05-2017 11:06
  
  With the news the girls have teamed up with Stormzy on 'Power', here's some more collabs we're desperate to see...
  
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• Billboard Music Awards: Drake sweeps past Adele's record with 13 wins

  22-05-2017 10:50
  
  Canadian rapper, who walked into the show Sunday with 22 nominations, won top artist, top male artist and top Billboard 200 album, among othersDrake has surpassed Adele’s record at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, picking up 13 awards.The Canadian rapper, who walked into the show Sunday with 22 nominations, won top artist, top male artist and top Billboard 200 album (Views), among others, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Adele set a record at the show in 2012 with 12 wins.Cont
  
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• Cash Savage review – rock’n’roll lives on in a blistering show from a true believer

  22-05-2017 03:39
  
  The Zoo, Brisbane
  Backed by her band the Last Drinks, the Australian singer-songwriter carries the spirit and history of rock’n’roll within her, and preaches it with powerWhen future Bruce Springsteen manager Jon Landau wrote his instantly infamous review of the man he saw as “rock’n’roll future” in 1974, the more personal, vulnerable elements of his enthusiasm were drowned out by his own hyperbole. Landau caught The Boss at a time when he needed to be reminde
  
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