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• One Love Manchester's Most Incredible Duets

  04-06-2017 23:40
  
  Miley + Ariana + Chris Martin + Black Eyed Peas + Everyone...
  
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• One Love Manchester: The Most Inspiring, Emotional Speeches

  04-06-2017 21:58
  
  Ariana Grande, David Beckham, will.i.am and more give moving, heartfelt speeches at One Love Manchester...
  
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• Global Terror Attacks: We Stand Together

  04-06-2017 16:31
  
  The Manchester attacks are one of a number of horrific terrorist attacks to hit the world in recent time...
  
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• Field Day review – sweltering playlist-shuffle party raises the roof

  04-06-2017 16:12
  
  Victoria Park, LondonThe one-day festival has a gigantic new Barn stage, suitably filled by Aphex Twin’s spine-tingling live return, supported by an eclectic lineup of pop, rap and dance for every taste under the sunA fixture in east London’s Victoria Park for a decade, Field Day has in many ways reached that optimal festival state of commanding a large and loyal audience on strength of reputation, as much as the individual artists it books each year. Intuitively curated with playlis
  
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• Field Day review – the Aphex Twin's live comeback raises the temperature

  04-06-2017 16:12
  
  Victoria Park, LondonThe one-day festival has a gigantic new Barn stage, suitably filled by Richard D James’s spine-tingling live return, supported by an eclectic lineup of pop, rap and dance for every taste under the sunA fixture in east London’s Victoria Park for a decade, Field Day has in many ways reached that optimal festival state of commanding a large and loyal audience on strength of reputation as much as the individual artists it books each year. Intuitively curated with pla
  
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• Sounds Like The Rumoured Romance Between Bella Hadid And Anthony Joshua Is Heating Up

  04-06-2017 15:18
  
  Bella is moving on from The Weeknd
  
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• Bollywood Brass Band with Jyotsna Srikanth review – Indian roots and romps

  04-06-2017 15:01
  
  Kings Place, LondonThe Bangalore-born violinist gave a masterclass in Carnatic music before letting her hair down to explore modern movie magic as part of the Songlines Encounters festival The Bollywood Brass Band has moved on. After proving that a London-based brass and percussion band can successfully rework great Indian film music without using vocals, they have now teamed up with one of the finest exponents of south Indian Carnatic styles, the violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, who argues that soun
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Showrunner Reveals Season 2 Hints

  04-06-2017 14:45
  
  Clay could be in for a rough time in Season 2
  
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• Sir Jeffrey Tate obituary

  04-06-2017 14:30
  
  Conductor who overcame the difficulties of spina bifida to enjoy a distinguished international career, particularly in Germany, his adopted homeDefying seemingly impossible odds over physical incapacity, the conductor Sir Jeffrey Tate, who has died aged 74, maintained an active and distinguished international career, centred latterly on what he referred to as his “spiritual home”, Germany.As well as congenital spina bifida, he suffered from the complication of kyphosis (forward round
  
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• Is This The Latest Star To Sign Up To Celebrity Big Brother?

  04-06-2017 14:27
  
  Will this So Macho star really be walking into The Most Famous House In Britain?
  
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• Are Liam Payne And Cheryl Planning Their Next Baby Already?

  04-06-2017 13:47
  
  The couple became first time parents in March
  
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• Marnie Simpson Shares Her Bed With Sophie Kasaei As She Continues To Move On From Lewis Bloor

  04-06-2017 13:28
  
  The cousins are there for each other
  
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• Aurora Orchestra review – squeaks, lederhosen and raspberries In the Alps

  04-06-2017 13:24
  
  St John’s Smith Square, LondonA virtuoso turn from Mary Bevan as a girl taught to sing by beasts animated Richard Ayres’ kitsch mountain melodrama, followed by the orchestra’s latest exhilarating symphony from memoryWhat do you get if you combine projection screens with assorted hats, animal noises, and a Brahms symphony? Answer: the latest outing from the Aurora Orchestra – an ensemble that likes to do things differently.First up was Richard Ayres’ so-called &ldquo
  
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• Harry Styles Makes Bizarre Revelation He Was Once Asked To Be The Face Of 'Shewee'

  04-06-2017 13:09
  
  The star was asked to endorse the urination pot when he was in One Direction
  
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• Details Of Ariana Grande's One Love Manchester Benefit Revealed As Star Confirms The Concert Will Go Ahead Following London Attack

  04-06-2017 12:45
  
  "After the events last night in London, and those in Manchester just two weeks ago, we feel a sense of responsibility to honour those lost, injured, and affected"
  
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• Ariana Grande Leads Tributes To Victims Of London Terror Attack

  04-06-2017 12:12
  
  The star took to Twitter to express shock at the latest UK attack hours before she is due to take to the stage in Manchester
  
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• Whitney Houston’s real bodyguard: ‘Bobby was jealous of her success’

  04-06-2017 10:00
  
  David Roberts, a Welsh former police officer, witnessed the singer turn into an icon, then a tragedy. As a new documentary reappraises her life, he recalls her slide into self-destructionWhen David Roberts first met Whitney Houston, he had never heard her sing. In fact, he had no idea who she was. “Seems strange now,” he says, with a gentle laugh. It was February 1988 and Houston was one of the most famous pop stars on the planet. But Roberts wasn’t part of that world. For year
  
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• Tina May: Café Paranoia review – pitch-perfect homage to Mark Murphy

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  (33Jazz)Tina May can grasp the essence of a style and make it her own more quickly and thoroughly than any other singer I can think of. This time she takes some songs written by the late Mark Murphy, joins Murphy’s collaborator, Andy Lutter, in writing a few more, and the two sets complement one another beautifully. Together they brew a faint but distinct atmosphere of the early 1960s, when Murphy’s lyrics prompted Liza Minnelli to remark: “There’s a party going on in Mar
  
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• Swet Shop Boys review – barefoot worship at the sweaty temple of hip-hop

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  Scala, London
  When he’s not being Bodhi Rook in Star Wars, Riz Ahmed proves himself a potent spokesman for young brown guys in an increasingly mad worldYou’ll have heard of one part of transatlantic hip-hop outfit, Swet Shop Boys: Riz Ahmed. He was recently on the cover of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential Peopleissue, having been plastered all over screens big and small: Ahmed played Bodhi Rook in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Before his acting career went stratospheric, th
  
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• Saint Etienne: Home Counties review – a winningly witty paean

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Heavenly Recordings)Saint Etienne’s music always has a firm sense of time and place, somewhere around London, sometime between 1963 and yesterday. So it’s no surprise that the trio have finally written a whole album about the towns they grew up in. If the concept might seem a bit Brexit, the execution is flawless and winningly witty. Chirpy, unpretentious pop such as Out of My Mind rubs up against Dive’s excitable suburban disco thump and the sophisticated brilliance of Sweet
  
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• Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really Want? review – protest prog

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Columbia/Sony)Musically, Roger Waters’s first album of new material in 25 years, produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck etc), is like a compendium of best moments and motifs from Pink Floyd’s early- to mid-70s heyday, from the ticking clock and heartbeat that run through opening numbers When We Were Young and Déjà Vu to vintage synths, swelling strings and station platform announcements. Lyrically, the album finds Waters in pissed-off older man mode and is none the
  
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• Marika Hackman: I’m Not Your Man review – witty, raucous and honest

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Universal)Wisely deciding that spectral posh folk is probably a spent force, Hackman has abandoned the old-soul bandwagon in favour of making a raucous, honest 25-year-old’s racket. Her second album opens with lively laughter and the grungy, explosive, minxy Boyfriend, on which London’s the Big Moon help her to blow out cobwebs and preconceptions. Hackman’s new sound has a slackerish, sly swagger reminiscent of Courtney Barnett (or going back to the source, Liz Phair). She kee
  
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• Liam Gallagher: ‘Rock’n’roll saved my life’

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  Answering questions from readers and celebrity fans including Caitlin Moran, Vincent Kompany and Irvine Welsh, the former Oasis frontman is in vintage form, talking parenthood, politics and the state of popIt’s easy to forget how good Liam Gallagher is at his job. Being a rock’n’roll star is what he does. When I arrive at the photographer’s studio where he’s having his picture taken, he is in full work mode: meaning, he’s standing stock still, looking hard and
  
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• Justin Adams: Ribbons review – seamless ambient fusion

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Wayward)British guitarist Adams is a man of many parts. Alongside his job in Robert Plant’s Band of Joy have come collaborations with assorted North African and Middle Eastern luminaries – desert rockers Tinariwen and Terakaft, Moroccan Gnawa musician Hamid el Kasri and more. Here, he teams up with Norwegian singer Anneli Drecker (of Röyksopp) for an ambient outing that draws inspiration from modernist painters such as Rauschenberg and Pollock. Adams’s grooves and loops o
  
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• Dan Auerbach: Waiting on a Song review – way to fake writer’s block…

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Nonesuch)There’s something slightly disingenuous about the lyrics to the title track of the Black Key’s second solo album. Against gloriously sunny 60s pop, Auerbach cheerfully complains of his writer’s block, which is all a bit rich coming from one so clearly blessed with a gift for winning melodies. Musically, however, it sets the scene for an album recorded with the cream of the local music scene from his adopted hometown of Nashville. There’s a lovely lightness of to
  
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• Alt-J: Relaxer review – a change of pace gives space to breathe

  04-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Infectious)Having made two albums of award-winning but fidgety digital folk-rock, Alt-J were ripe for evolution. The trio haven’t exactly poured a vat of chemical hair relaxer into their laptops, but on this third outing they have taken a detangling wet brush to their try-hard songcraft, leaving space for these eight oblique tracks – about death, sexual trysts, literary references, Tasmania and “loving” in one’s “own language” – to breathe more ci
  
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• Brahms: Symphony No 4, Alt-Rhapsodie, Schicksalslied CD review – grab this Rhapsody

  04-06-2017 08:25
  
  Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Collegium Vocale Gent/Herreweghe(Phi)Recordings of Brahms’s Symphony No 4 come thick and fast. This one is taut, cleanly structured, perhaps a little underwhelming for those who prefer a beefier, more integrated sound. But the disc is worth snapping up for the two accompanying vocal works: the Alto Rhapsody, with the superb, pure-toned Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg as soloist, and the Schicksalslied (“Song of
  
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• Bruckner: Symphony No 9; Symphony No 7 (Adagio) CD review – Furtwängler on the edge

  04-06-2017 08:20
  
  Berlin Philharmonic/Furtwängler(Praha Digitals)In October 1944 Wilhelm Furtwängler’s ambiguous, much reviled association with the Nazi regime was reaching its end; in January 1945 he finally fled. The valedictory intensity of this famous recording of Bruckner’s last, incomplete symphony is truly alarming. Taped for radio in an empty Berlin Beethovensaal, without audience noise, the Berlin Philharmonic’s playing reaches terrifying heights in the first movement and brut
  
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• Claudio Dall’Albero: Polyphonia in Excelsis CD review – refreshing new sacred music

  04-06-2017 08:15
  
  Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge/Skinner
  (Resonus)This is a rather startling disc. The music is firmly rooted in the tradition of Gregorian chant and the great Italian polyphonists but flows from the pen of a 21st-century Roman. Claudio Dall’Albero spent decades in the Vatican, where his studies of contrapuntal technique gave rise to new sacred music, given life here by the mellifluous choir of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge. Much of the work, whether for choir or organ solo, is careful
  
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• Halsey: Hopeless Fountain Kingdom review – pop goes the spontaneity

  04-06-2017 07:59
  
  The New Jersey singer’s voice is stifled by the mega-production and collaboration fest from industry A-listers that often follows a successful debutPop is thronged with notional female rebels, often marketing-led creations seeking to exploit some imagined patch of listenership by gyrating more attitudinally than the last bit of cannon fodder. Many 12-year-olds can sense this.When New Jersey native Halsey came along, though, with her gamine hairdo, her bipolarity, her bisexuality and some p
  
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• As Canada’s Pemberton event folds, is era of indie festivals reaching an end?

  04-06-2017 01:05
  
  Music executive warns of danger to ‘festival ecosystem’ after British Columbia event collapses without refunds for ticket-holdersConcert promoters are warning that the era of independent music festivals could be drawing to a close, following the abrupt collapse of two events.The Pemberton festival was due to take place in British Columbia in mid-July, with performances by Chance the Rapper, Haim, Muse and A Tribe Called Quest. But late last month the festival was abruptly cancelled,
  
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