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• Jennifer Lawrence In Private Jet Double Engine Failure Horror

  11-06-2017 15:26
  
  The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing
  
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• The Feud Could Finally Be Over As Katy Perry APOLOGISES To Taylor Swift

  11-06-2017 14:55
  
  'I'm sorry for anything I ever did'
  
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• Love Island Is About To Send Two Brand New Contestants In To The Villa

  11-06-2017 14:23
  
  Expect some drama
  
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• Liam Payne Jokes That Netflix Could Destroy His Relationship With Cheryl

  11-06-2017 14:09
  
  Warning to all: Do not binge watch without your other half
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Is Beyond Excited About Her New Autobiography

  11-06-2017 13:43
  
  Brand new book called Brand New Me
  
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• Is Vicky Pattison Hinting That She Really Wants Her Boyfriend To Propose To Her?

  11-06-2017 13:23
  
  She says she's ready for marriage - but also OK to wait for John to pop the question
  
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• Gorillaz review – Albarn's Demon Dayz festival brings joyful apocalypse to the pier

  11-06-2017 13:12
  
  Dreamland, Margate
  Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett take over the amusement park for a carnivalesque festival of great performances, from De La Soul and Little Simz to KanoGorillaz have always seemed like an amusement park for Damon Albarn’s and Jamie Hewlett’s imaginations. So it’s fitting that the cartoon art-pop band headlined their own festival at Dreamland, Margate’s vintage fairground with its candy stripes, bumper cars and wooden rollercoaster.Albarn envisioned the g
  
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• This Has To Be The Most Explosive Argument Of Big Brother 2017 So Far…

  11-06-2017 13:06
  
  Kayleigh Morris and Arthur Fulford have had an epic fall out
  
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• Geo Releases Brand New Track ‘Breathe Slow’

  11-06-2017 13:04
  
  After receiving an abundance of online and radio support for previous track ‘You Should Know’, London native Geo, releases his brand new single ‘Breathe Slow’.
  
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• Big Brother’s Chanelle McCleary Sparks Outrage As She Shuts Down The Hot Tub By Weeing In It Twice

  11-06-2017 12:42
  
  The former Ex on the Beach star went wee wee in the outdoor hot tub
  
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• On my radar: Neneh Cherry’s cultural highlights

  11-06-2017 11:00
  
  The singer and actor on rap heroes, groundbreaking sculpture and cosy eateriesBorn in Stockholm, Neneh Cherry dropped out of school at 14 and moved to London, where she became involved with the punk movement, joining several bands including Rip Rig and Panic and a stint in the Slits. Her debut solo album, Raw Like Sushi, which fused pop, hip-hop and R&B, was released in 1989. The single Buffalo Stance reached No 3 in the charts, and Cherry performed it on Top of the Pops while seven months p
  
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• Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister: Planetarium review – masters of the universe

  11-06-2017 10:00
  
  (4AD)
  Grandeur meets digital mayhem on this heavenly suite of songs about our solar system, updated since its live debut five years agoThe planets probably just roll their eyes at all the musical tributes that we puny humans pay them. It is, though, a particularly poignant coincidence that this album is being released as the US president disavows the Paris climate agreement. Our special snowflake of a green orb just became an even more inhospitable place for life to endure. Related: Sufjan Steve
  
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• Perfume Genius review – sweet smell of success

  11-06-2017 10:00
  
  Heaven, London
  He may be a delicate soul, but Mike Hadreas’s confessional pop is sensual, anthemic and fearlessPerfume Genius – the alter ego of 35-year-old Mike Hadreas – is floating around the stage dressed like an haute couture mannequin who’s run off before the dress could be finished. He’s rocking a gaping bouffant-sleeved blouse and a pinstripe culotte ball gown that threatens to fall off because Hadreas’s skinny chest doesn’t provide much scaffold
  
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• ‘I created this character called Katy Perry. I didn’t want to be Katheryn Hudson. It was too scary’

  11-06-2017 09:59
  
  On the eve of her fifth album and Glastonbury debut, the pastors’ daughter-turned-hit machine talks about ‘purposeful pop’, the joy of meditation, and her feud with Taylor SwiftIn among the typical recording detritus of New York’s Jungle City Studios – boxes of foam ear plugs, rolls of tape, untouched buttons on a soundboard the size of a London studio flat – sits a Febreze candle, its lime-green wax emitting a scent like sweetened detergent. It’s the fi
  
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• Songhoy Blues: Résistance review – joyous and eclectic

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Transgressive)Formed after a jihadi incursion forced them into exile, this north Malian guitar quartet has won many friends since their 2015 debut, wowing international audiences with their mix of desert blues, funk, rock and, well, whatever takes their fancy. They have Iggy Pop rumbling away on Sahara, for example, warning us that “there ain’t no pizza” there, and south London grime MC Elf Kid struggling with the sinuous horns of Mali Nord. They hit a James Brown groove
  
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• Sibelius: Symphonies 1 and 6 CD review – punch and vitality

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård (conductor) (Linn)Recorded in the clear acoustic of BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, this pairing of Sibelius’s First and Sixth symphonies stands out well in an overcrowded market. Under the baton of principal conductor Thomas Søndergård, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays with punch and vitality. In Symphony No 1, solo woodwind and harp, lithe and transparent, make an impact in the grand opening movement before
  
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• Roger Beaujolais Quartet: Sunset review – moments to savour, more than once

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Stay Tuned)There is a special kind of pleasure in listening to a group of players working in smooth and unobtrusive accord. No doubt the distinctive sound of this quartet is the product of much hard work, but the effect is one of delightful ease. Roger Beaujolais produces a warm tone on the vibraphone that perfectly matches his improvised line. With pianist Robin Aspland to provide harmonic spice, and bassist Simon Thorpe and drummer Winston Clifford keeping the whole thing airborne, these nine
  
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• Phoenix: Ti Amo review – from France to Italy, avec fromage

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Atlantic)In the 17 years since their potent first album, United, Phoenix have lost some of their exuberance. These days, as Ti Amo, their sixth set, illustrates, the French quartet favour adult-oriented synth-rock over the fluid powerpop that made their name. But while Ti Amo is slow to reveal its charms, there are moments when the cheesy concept – a romanticised version of Italy – is made to seem like a brilliant idea. Tuttifrutti, one of several references to food, is nimble and c
  
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• London Grammar: Truth Is a Beautiful Thing review – glacial and portentous

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Ministry of Sound)Trump may have quit the Paris climate agreement, but fear not: we can always pack London Grammar, with their endless supply of glacial atmospherics, off to the Antarctic. The trio’s second album continues much in the post-xx vein of their debut (think a goth Zero 7). Singer Hannah Reid’s voice backflips through chilly, posh-folk mannerisms, pianos are plonked sparely, guitars are twanged languidly in a well of reverb. It’s best when the pace picks up on the l
  
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• Lonati: Sonate da Camera CD review – violin sonatas full of invention

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  Ars Antiqua Austria/Letzbor (Pan Classics)A colourful figure in late 17th-century Italy, Carlo Ambrogio Lonati sang comic roles in Cavalli operas, was perhaps the lover of Stradella (possibly involved in his murder), and earned the nickname of “the Queen’s hunchback” while a violinist in the service of Queen Christina of Sweden. These violin sonatas, published in Salzburg in 1701, are old-fashioned for their date but are full of invention: they look back to Biber in their unusu
  
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• Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie: Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie review – strange and beautiful

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  (East West)Fleetwood Mac’s last masterpiece, Tango in the Night, relied heavily on Buckingham/McVie compositions, with the group’s third great songwriter, Stevie Nicks, generally absent. Now that McVie and Buckingham are back together in the touring Mac band for the first time since 1997, they’ve reunited in the studio for this succinct collection of gentle pop-rockers, familiar yet far more strange and beautiful than 2013’s brittle Fleetwood Mac EP. Buckingham’s sp
  
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• Katy Perry: Witness review – ‘purposeful pop’ proves tricky to pull off

  11-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Capitol/Virgin EMI)With its flesh-kneading video, Katy Perry’s Bon Appétit whetted appetites for the star’s new album. The bubbling two-step track Swish Swish, featuring a Roland Clark sample (also used in Fatboy Slim’s Star 69), and the ever-inventive Nicki Minaj, provides more top-flight, shade-throwing diva product. But Witness’s filler can misfire, such as the forgettable Mike Will Made It-produced Tsunami. “Purposeful pop”, meanwhile, is a hard tr
  
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• Tosca; Der Rosenkavalier; Vixen – review

  11-06-2017 08:59
  
  Grange Park, Surrey; Millennium Centre, Cardiff; the Vaults, London SE1
  Grange Park Opera settles into its new home with a stirring Tosca, and fine acting lifts WNO’s Der RosenkavalierOpera offers everything, they say. Never before has it featured such an exquisite incongruity as Jonathan Dimbleby, in black tie, hurrying on stage at 10.01pm with a scrap of paper bearing the exit poll results broadcast to the nation a minute earlier by his brother, David. The mix of gasps and noisy cheers a
  
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• SZA: Control review – dreamy and delicious insights into vulnerability

  11-06-2017 08:59
  
  (RCA)Languid and soulful, the debut album from New Jersey singer SZA is an immersive dreamscape, book-ended poignantly with her mother’s musings on the subject of control. The obvious touchstone is the meandering R&B of Frank Ocean – these are delicious slow jams with delicate yet powerful vocals and intimate insights into femininity, self-esteem and youth. On Normal Girl, SZA laments that she isn’t one, while on Pretty Little Birds she candidly considers shaving her legs.
  
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• One to watch: Nilüfer Yanya

  11-06-2017 08:59
  
  The west London indie R&B singer is turning the political sensibility of her songs into positive actionThe day after the attack on Manchester Arena that killed 22 people, Nilüfer Yanya got on stage and performed live at the Manchester Albert Hall, a short walk away. “It did feel a bit weird,” says the west Londoner, who opened for Broken Social Scene in front of a mellow but positive audience. “But we really wanted to do it, and the crowd was still there.” Live m
  
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