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• Glastonbury 2017: Sunday daytime with Chic, Barry Gibb and the Killers – as it happened

  25-06-2017 20:41
  
  Sunday was soothed by Laura Marling, and Barry Gibb got the Pyramid crowd singing. Then it all kicked off with a surprise appearance from the Killers and Chic’s disco party in the sunshineFollow Sunday evening’s liveblog here 7.41pm BSTWe’re still coming to terms with that onslaught of positive vibes: Barry Gibb and Chic bringing disco anthems, the Killers generating the loudest crowd of the festival, and Haim and Rag’n’Bone Man commanding more people than ever at t
  
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• Glastonbury 2017: 'the best one yet', declares organiser Emily Eavis

  25-06-2017 20:29
  
  Ed Sheeran is headliner for last night at Worthy Farm after secret set by the Killers, winding up politically charged festivalAs a politically fired-up Glastonbury 2017 ends, co-organiser Emily Eavis has said: “It has to be the best one yet.”Ed Sheeran was due to be the Sunday night headliner, completing a line-up that saw Radiohead, Foo Fighters and – in a secret set – the Killers take to the stages of Worthy Farm over the three-day festival. Continue reading...
  
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• 8 Harry Potter UK Locations You Can Visit On Holiday

  25-06-2017 18:49
  
  From Diagon Alley IRL to hanging out in actual Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom, here's how to have the ultimate Harry Potter holiday...
  
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• The Glastonbury 2017 barometer – strong and stable, or weak and wobbly?

  25-06-2017 18:32
  
  Lord Buckethead cemented his cult status and the ‘neon family’ nailed the dressing up. But, as ever, there was no escaping the human traffic jams Unfashionable genresThundercat repping jazz fusion and Lemon Twigs bringing back glam. Electro-swing next?Continue reading...
  
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• BCMG/Knussen review – a shimmering string of musical jewels

  25-06-2017 17:05
  
  Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
  This precision-tooled programme with strong Japanese connections included the premiere of Oliver Knussen’s O Hotogisu! and new works by Harrison BirtwistleAs a conductor Oliver Knussen may be a constant and vital force in British contemporary music, but as one of the finest composers of his generation, he’s a much less obvious presence. New works appear far less often than his admirers would like, so even though it lasted just eight minutes, the premier
  
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• Was this the wokest Glastonbury ever?

  25-06-2017 16:25
  
  From sets by Solange and Sleaford Mods to the endless chants of ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’, politics felt central to an already right-on festival. But thankfully it wasn’t all mansplaining seminars … Glastonbury has always struck a hippyish balancing act between hyperpolitical consciousness and blissful escapism, a mix personified by Michael Eavis, the festival’s earnest and permanently smiling founder. But when the result of the Brexit referendum was announced last year i
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Lifts The Lid On Her Sizzling Sex Life With Stephen Bear

  25-06-2017 16:05
  
  The Geordie Shore star has been sharing all her secrets in her new autobiography
  
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• Marnie Simpson Is Ready To Explore Her Bisexual Side As She Continues Her Search For Love

  25-06-2017 15:22
  
  The Geordie Shore star is ready for a new lad or lass in her life
  
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• Explosive Drama Erupts On Big Brother As Lotan Carter Smashes His Way Out Of The House

  25-06-2017 15:07
  
  The Dreamboys star quit the show!... but then returned via the Diary Room
  
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• Is This The Tragic Story Of What Happened To Andy’s Dad In Toy Story?

  25-06-2017 14:33
  
  There is a sad theory surrounding the absent father of the toy's owner Andy in the film series
  
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• ‘What’s the most strong and stable thing in your tent?’ – meet 2017's Glastonbury campers

  25-06-2017 14:12
  
  Peach schnapps, bumbags, fold-up camp beds, fry-ups … would Worthy Farm festivalgoers pass the Maybot test, or were they more a coalition of chaos? Who are you here with?
  All the girls – we go to a new festival every year and we’ve tried to come to Glastonbury for the last two. There’s also my boyfriend and all his friends – about 20 of us in total. It’s my birthday next week, so I asked everyone to come as a flamingo. I was inspired by David Attenborough&rsq
  
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• ‘Eye can’t dance!’ Katy Perry’s Glastonbury diary – in pictures

  25-06-2017 14:08
  
  The pop star arrived by helicopter and wowed the festival with her spectacular stage show – but could any of that compare to meeting Stormzy backstage? Continue reading...
  
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• Blac Chyna Was Involved In A Nasty Car Accident In LA

  25-06-2017 13:52
  
  Another driver allegedly drove into the back of the reality star's car
  
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• The Pitch Perfect 3 Trailer Is Here And It Is EPIC

  25-06-2017 13:22
  
  The Barden Bellas are back for one final hurrah
  
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• WATCH! Single AF Facebook Live Launch Show

  25-06-2017 12:57
  
  Join Marnie Simpson, Farrah Abraham, and the gang as they begin their search for love.
  
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• Marnie Simpson Is All Of Us When She Says Drinking To Calm Nerves Has Ruined Dates In The Past

  25-06-2017 12:48
  
  The Geordie Shore lass is looking for love on MTV's upcoming show Single AF
  
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• Towie’s Megan McKenna Has Pete Wicks ‘Under Her Thumb’ According To James Lock

  25-06-2017 12:01
  
  Megs and Pete are officially back together, it would seem
  
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• Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory review – good vibrations and gunfire

  25-06-2017 10:00
  
  (Def Jam)
  The rapper and former Crip’s urgent second album juxtaposes California sunshine with the horrors of gang lifeYou’ll occasionally hear seagulls on Vince Staples’s records. Raised in Compton and Long Beach, the 23-year-old California rapper includes them, you suspect, to remind listeners where his taut flows come from. The squawks are sometimes followed by gunshots – more sonic signatures from those LA neighbourhoods.Juxtaposing Cali sunshine and Cali gang hell is
  
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• Kraftwerk review – past masters of the future

  25-06-2017 10:00
  
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  You can hear the men-machines’ classical roots and the modern sounds they helped shape in this blissful 3D showWhen audiences first sat down to watch the earliest moving pictures, they were reported to be terrified of the image of a train steaming towards them, and ran. No one seated in the Royal Albert Hall at the start of Kraftwerk’s three-night stint actually cringes as flying numbers pelt through the air towards them during the first song, Numbers. But i
  
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• Glastonbury festival: the best of Saturday – in pictures

  25-06-2017 09:24
  
  Katy Perry glittered, Jeremy Corbyn pulled the crowds, Solange celebrated her birthday, and Foo Fighters rocked the PyramidKaty Perry and Craig David win over crowds with hits and self-deprecation The star attraction on Saturday afternoon was Jeremy Corbyn, attracting a crowd that ranked amongst the biggest ever at the Glastonbury festival. He introduced the rap duo Run the Jewels, who have been outspoken in their support of the Labour leader. Continue reading...
  
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• Rosie Hood: The Beautiful & the Actual review – rural ballads and poetic class

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Rootbeat)On the cover of her debut album, Rosie Hood looks as if she’s stepped in from an Edwardian parlour; appropriate enough for a record that features songs collected from pre-WW1 Wiltshire by local poet Alfred Williams. Hood is likewise Wiltshire-born, and sings rural ballads such as Baker’s Oven and The Cruel Mother with easy authority, with subtle accompaniments that include a melodeon, strings, banjo and thrumming double bass. Hood’s own songs sound antique, but Adrift
  
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• Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997-2017 review – an album of depthless humanity

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  (XL)The popular perception of Radiohead is that, after peaking with OK Computer – an hour-long howl against the rise of the machines – the band ironically shunned guitars in favour of glitchy electronics. Two decades later, this reissue (effectively 2008’s Collector’s Edition plus three excellent unreleased songs) proves that Radiohead’s reputation derives from their music’s depthless humanity, not its instrumentation: the impotent fury of Exit Music and Karma
  
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• Otello review – an underpowered Kaufmann is outshone by Iago

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  Marco Vratogna steals the show in Royal Opera’s fine new stagingEven in a summer packed with intriguing new opera productions – Hipermestra and Hamlet at Glyndebourne, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Aldeburgh, Tosca at Grange Park – Covent Garden’s first new Otello for 30 years, with star tenor Jonas Kaufmann making his eagerly awaited debut in the title role, promised to eclipse them all. Finally, Elijah Moshinsky’s reliable if tr
  
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• New Simplicity Trio: Common Spaces CD review – easy does it

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Babel)It’s come to something when a jazz piano trio needs to point out that they play tunes and avoid “avant garde practices”. But, fair enough, that’s what the aptly named New Simplicity Trio do, demonstrating in the process that originality doesn’t have to be complicated. Pianist Bruno Heinen, bassist Henrik Jensen and drummer Antonio Fusco play with notable clarity and poise, their compositions are indeed tuneful, and the total effect is coolly attractive. What&
  
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• Laurel Halo: Dust review – eerie, warm experimental sounds

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Hyperdub)Berlin-based experimentalist Laurel Halo has previously shown a proclivity for the disarmingly strange and beautiful; on album three we find similarly disconcerting classical cacophonies and fractious electronics. Lyrically, Halo takes inspiration from concrete poetry, with her and guests including Klein and Julia Holter leaping between singing and sprechgesang. Right from opener Sun to Solar, there is an undercurrent of warmth that continues throughout – even eerie moments of fr
  
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• DJ Khaled: Grateful review – great guests, shame about the shout outs

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Black Butter Intl)According to producer and Snapchat obsessive DJ Khaled, Grateful was executive produced by his eight-month-old son, Asahd. To be fair, he’s done quite a good job; the album features a ludicrous roll call of guests – Nicki Minaj, Drake, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Rihanna – across a Spotify playlist-worthy 23 tracks. Highlights include summer anthem Wild Thoughts (Rihanna luxuriating over Santana’s Maria Maria), Beyoncé and Jay Z’s breezy
  
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• Bedouine: Bedouine review – elegant, honeyed country-soul

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Spacebomb)The latest record from Spacebomb, the Virginia country-soul studio, is a fragrant balm. The songs combine sweet country cadences – as on One of These Days, a love song – with the gentle lilt of 60s folk and Astrud Gilberto; analogue enthusiast Guy Seyffert produces and sometime Beck guitarist Smokey Hormel combines with Spacebomb’s signature arrangements to flesh out these honeyed songs. Elegant as it is, this is succour with great heft, too. Bedouine is Azniv Korkej
  
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• Algiers: The Underside of Power review – righteous, intelligent rock

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
  (Matador)The second album from London/Atlanta four-piece Algiers gleefully fuses classic 60s soul with post-punk experimentation to frequently astonishing effect. Against a constantly shifting musical backdrop, Franklin James Fisher’s rich voice (think Levi Stubbs) is the one constant, whether undercut by discordant guitar noise and rapid-fire beats (Animals) or caressed by piano (Mme Rieux). The politically charged lyrics are no less incendiary, particularly on the gospel-influenced Cleve
  
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• Richard Strauss: Through Life and Love CD review – Louise Alder shines

  25-06-2017 08:25
  
  Louise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
  (Orchid Classics)A popular choice for the audience prize at the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and a superb Sophie in WNO’s recent Der Rosenkavalier, Louise Alder has captured hearts in Wales and beyond. This disc of Richard Strauss songs comes at just the right moment in her ascent towards stardom. It’s grouped under headings such as youth, longing, loss, release. Some of the nearly two dozen choices are familiar, such as Zueign
  
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• A Chopin Diary: The Complete Nocturnes CD – review

  25-06-2017 08:20
  
  Claire Huangci (piano)
  (Berlin Classics) (2 CDs)One of my very earliest musical memories is the wonderful sound of Chopin’s E flat nocturne on an old 78. The music gets under your skin, and that is equally true for the Chinese-American pianist Claire Huangci, who has recorded all 21 nocturnes. Are they too unvaried a sequence? No, because of the deftness and variety that Chopin creates within the form. Huangci has a lovely, warm sound and in some pieces, like the F sharp major, integrates
  
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• Louis Tomlinson: ‘Zayn has the voice, Harry is cool… then there’s me’

  25-06-2017 08:00
  
  In One Direction, Louis Tomlinson was ‘the kid at the back’. Now, with his first solo album and his own record label, he’s taking the spotlight and learning to trust himselfComing out of a dissolving boy band must be a bit like being an entrant in one of those dystopian jungle fights – a Hunger Games-style event in which bandmates are scattered across an unknown terrain and challenged to slog their lonely route back to fame. Justin Timberlake, after NSync, enjoyed the uns
  
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• Foo Fighters at Glastonbury 2017 review – rockers cruise to middle of the road

  25-06-2017 02:34
  
  Dave Grohl’s neo-grunge rockers play their early hits with ferocity, but you can’t escape the blandness of the ballads that followTime was when Foo Fighters would play a festival tent and have fans scaling the poles in order to get to glimpse them. From the ashes of Nirvana rose a neo-grunge band whose joyous melodies and ebullient punk energy charted a new course through alt.rock: anthemic but with a low-slung grittiness. Decades on, as Saturday’s Pyramid stage headliners, the
  
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• Glastonbury 2017: Katy Perry and Craig David win over crowds with hits and self-deprecation

  25-06-2017 01:15
  
  From Jeremy Corbyn to Radiohead, this year’s festival featured an impressively diverse lineup, with pop as much on the agenda as indie rock and old favourites“Do you like rock’n’roll?” Dave Grohl asked the Saturday night crowd at the Pyramid Stage. “Really? Me too. Let’s play some real rock’n’roll.” Foo Fighters, who were booked to play two years ago before Grohl broke his leg, make traditionalist dude-rock for people who wish Nirvana h
  
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