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• Saint Ed Kuepper to be honoured with renamed Brisbane park

  09-07-2017 20:00
  
  Push for Brisbane to further celebrate its second seminal band as Ed Kuepper Park named in city’s south-westThe cultural contribution of Ed Kuepper to the city of Brisbane is set to be formally recognised, with a park close to his childhood home in the south-western suburb of Oxley set to be named in his honour.
  Ed Kuepper Park – the sign for which is now being made – adjoins Oxley Road and Lawson Street. The name was approved by the council after a petition by local resident M
  
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• Jesy Nelson Should ‘Be Careful’ As Claims Emerge Her New Man Cheated On His Ex

  09-07-2017 18:16
  
  Should Jesy be a bit wary of her new guy?
  
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• Pierre Henry obituary

  09-07-2017 17:54
  
  Composer whose inventive work in the musique concrète genre saw him hailed as the grandfather of technoPierre Henry, who has died aged 89, was a key figure in the 1950s glory days of electroacoustic music, a term he may have invented. The tape recorder, newly developed at that time, opened the way to composing with any sound that could be recorded and thereafter transformed. It also changed the way composers could work, no longer creating music for others to perform but testing possibilit
  
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• Cheryl Looks Almost Unrecognisable With New Blonder Hair

  09-07-2017 17:34
  
  Loving the new ‘do, Chezza!
  
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• The Killers review – snake-hipped showman delivers synth-rock glory

  09-07-2017 17:31
  
  Hyde Park, London
  Wearing bubblegum pink, a lithe Brandon Flowers leads the kings of razor-sharp, irresistible pop anthems in this high-octane headline setOne-day festivals can attract people for whom music is a hobby rather than a passion. People who might blanch at the camping, toilet facilities and hygiene sacrifices of Glastonbury or Reading will happily spend a day drinking in Hyde Park, thereby lending many of the British Summer Time festival shows a distinctly middle-aged, family feel.Yet
  
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• Kylie and Kendall Jenner Order Up A Huge Nando’s After Watching Travis Scott At Wireless 

  09-07-2017 16:53
  
  We get it, festivals can make you super hungry
  
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• Vicky Pattison Snogs Her Boyfriend And Generally Has The Best Time Ever At Wimbledon

  09-07-2017 16:11
  
  Vicky enjoyed some tonsil tennis at Wimbledon
  
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• Marnie Simpson And Chloe Ferry’s Face Swap Pic Causes Their Fans To Just Lose It

  09-07-2017 15:23
  
  Fans can’t deal with this pic of the Geordie Shore stars
  
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• U2 review – this may be a heritage act, but it sure isn't history

  09-07-2017 14:47
  
  Twickenham Stadium
  Bono and the band’s Joshua Tree gig is nostalgic only in theory – it oozes contemporary confidence and command. They are totally in their elementThe night before the first European date of U2’s 2017 Joshua Tree Tour, listeners to Simon Mayo’s Radio 2 request show were favoured with a surprise. Among the phone messages from families stuck in traffic en route to caravan parks, eager to hear the B-52s’ Love Shack, there came an unexpected call from B
  
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• Charlotte Crosby’s Mum Is A Stunner And Fans Agree

  09-07-2017 14:05
  
  Charlotte is super proud of her gorgeous mam!
  
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• Marnie Simpson And Farrah Abraham Looking For Single AF Dates in Newcastle And Chloe Ferry Is Joining Them!

  09-07-2017 13:02
  
  Newcastle, lock up your men! Marnie, Farrah and Chloe are coming for them!
  
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• Marnie Simpson Admits She Had ‘Strong’ Feelings For Casey Johnson As Farrah Is Wing Woman On Single AF Date 

  09-07-2017 12:10
  
  Marnie gets real about her true feeling for Casey
  
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• Tom Holland & Zendaya Reveal Their Funniest Moments Together On Spider-Man: Homecoming

  09-07-2017 11:42
  
  Funniest superhero movie evs?
  
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• Tom Holland And Zendaya React To Lip Sync Battle BEHIND THE SCENES

  09-07-2017 11:33
  
  Bet you didn't know *this* celeb moment happened straight after.
  
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• Tom Holland And Zendaya Play Would You Rather: SPIDER-MAN Edition

  09-07-2017 11:21
  
  Would you rather wear the Spidey suit for a whole year or Vulture’s wing suit for a month?!
  
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• 5 Unforgettable Moments From The Killers' BST Hyde Park Show

  09-07-2017 11:07
  
  Brandon Flowers is The Man.
  
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• True Faith; New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes review – Factory legacy holds sway

  09-07-2017 10:00
  
  Manchester Art Gallery; Old Granada StudiosJoy Division, New Order and the label that nurtured them have made an indelible mark on the city, now celebrated in inventive and exhilarating art and musicIn St Ann’s Square a busker is in danger of drowning out a piece of sound art called Azan, a specially commissioned installation by Mohammed Fairouz. One of six public bits of listening art spread across the city, it naturally has to compete with the cacophony of city life. But this is amplifie
  
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• Moon Hooch: ‘We want our shows to be crazy dance parties’

  09-07-2017 10:00
  
  Whether playing virtuosic jazz or ‘acoustic techno’, these former Brooklyn buskers rockIt’s a Monday night in south London, and the crowd at Omeara is going absolutely wild over a vegan experimental jazz band. One saxophonist looks like he’s on loan from a metal band, the other fixes his stare on the crowd with the intensity of a rapacious shark. The raucous 90-minute set comprises a single song with a killer hook.Moon Hooch started as buskers in Brooklyn, until the
  
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• Haim: Something to Tell You review – once more with feeling

  09-07-2017 10:00
  
  (Polydor)
  The LA trio’s second album finds them adding a bittersweet edge to their fusion of retro pop stylesWith their very first album, 2013’s Days Are Gone, LA’s Haim staked out an instantly identifiable sound with depth as well as surface – something many other bands never achieve. Having located a narrow patch of ground where R&B and 1970s soft rock overlap on pop’s Venn diagram, they exploited it mercilessly. (The 80s were called into service as required.)
  
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• Toro y Moi: Boo Boo review – haunted wistfulness

  09-07-2017 09:00
  
  (Carpark)Chaz Bear’s down-tempo project abandons the almost-rock of last album What For? and replaces it with indie-R&B, reminiscent of his 2011 take on 1980s groove classic Saturday Love. When it works, it’s easy to imagine Drake borrowing some of these muffled rhythms and muted pianos for his latest mixtape. Unfortunately, Bear can’t rely on the strength of Drizzy’s personality to lift the weaker songs and when he reaches for the Auto-Tune, it becomes difficult to e
  
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• This Is the Kit: Moonshine Freeze review – a fascinating take on alt-folk

  09-07-2017 09:00
  
  (Rough Trade)Paris-based Kate Stables returned to Bristol for her fourth album, with production duties undertaken by longtime PJ Harvey foil John Parish. There might be echoes of Dry-era Polly Jean on Hotter Colder (if Dry had featured wild sax solos), but for the most part this is a highly individual take on alt-folk. Musically, there’s a wealth of ideas, Parish’s minimalist arrangements allowing each instrument room to breathe and foregrounding Stables’s vocals – a wise
  
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• Sivu: Sweet Sweet Silent review – beguiling developments

  09-07-2017 09:00
  
  (Square Leg)The second album from Cornish singer-songwriter James Page is an eerie, subtle thing, insinuating itself by the softest of hooks. Though recorded, like 2014 debut Something on High, with Alt-J producer Charlie Andrew, it moves further away from indie convention, inspired by heroes such as Björk, Beck and Radiohead. Page’s voice is gently unnerving, tiptoeing through a circling choral motif and metallic clankings on Submersible, reflecting on his diagnosis with the inner ea
  
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• Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley review – lament for a lost way of life

  09-07-2017 09:00
  
  (Play It Again Sam)The miners’ strike still looms large in the imagination more than 30 years after the NUM’s defeat. On their third album, Public Service Broadcasting focus on the impact of the conflict in south Wales, using spoken-word snippets from the past to enliven their pliant post-rock. It’s an approach the group have used before, notably on their second set, The Race for Space, and Every Valley doesn’t add much that is new. Still, the album’s standout, the
  
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• Offa Rex: The Queen of Hearts review – Olivia Chaney and the Decembrists rock

  09-07-2017 09:00
  
  (Nonesuch)This collaboration between English folk star Olivia Chaney and Oregon alt-rockers the Decemberists started as a Twitter dialogue between the singer and Decemberist leader Colin Meloy, who had long nursed a passion for English psych-folk. You’re not going to go far wrong with Chaney – a thrilling singer, the Anne Briggs of her generation – on a set of folk standards, but Meloy and co also deliver. A shimmering, echoing ambience includes chiming guitars, drones, cello,
  
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• Django Bates: Saluting Sgt Pepper review – beautifully wonky jazz makeover

  09-07-2017 09:00
  
  (Edition)Somebody was bound to give the Beatles’ magnum opus a jazz makeover on its 50th birthday, and I can’t think of anyone better than Django Bates to do it. He has just the right mixture of musicality, mischief and sheer cheek to bring it off. Cannily, the tunes and the words are the same. It’s the fizzy, dizzying harmonies and rhythmic tricks that give the whole thing a kind of hall-of-mirrors effect: familiar, but disturbingly wonky. It’s beautifully done, though,
  
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• Broken Social Scene: Hug of Thunder review – strength in numbers

  09-07-2017 08:59
  
  (City Slang)With its rotating line-up and varied back catalogue, fans could never be sure which version of Broken Social Scene would turn up on a new album, seven years after their last. Fifteen strong, with Leslie Feist and Emily Haines back on board, this Scene have come mob-handed; a cavalry arriving, with guitars, to combat these worsening times. The Toronto indie rock institution’s multifaceted jams reflect this headcount – Hug of Thunder is not hugely cogent – but equally
  
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• Walton: Violin Concerto, Partita and Hindemith Variations CD review – an exhilarating disc

  09-07-2017 08:25
  
  Anthony Marwood (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Brabbins
  (Hyperion)William Walton (1902-83), still overshadowed by his younger contemporary Benjamin Britten, is pivotal to mid-20th century British music: a beneficiary of the early commissioning ethos of the BBC, the distinctive musical voice of Elizabeth II’s coronation, and central to the burgeoning tradition of British film music. Anthony Marwood is the incisive, poetic soloist in Walton’s Violin Concerto (1939, revised 1
  
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• Carnevale 1729 CD review – Ann Hallenberg dazzles

  09-07-2017 08:20
  
  Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Il pomo d’oro/Montanari
  (Pentatone) (2 CDs)The Venetian carnival season was an orgy in several ways, with theatres competing frantically to present famous singers in new operas, and endless rivalries and scandals. This amazing collection of showstopping hits from a single season, 1729 – almost all world premiere recordings – features unknown composers Orlandini and Giacomelli alongside the slightly better known Leo, Vinci and Porpora, while Albin
  
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