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• Liam Payne Shared A Bonkers Story About Being In A Lift With Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift And Harry Styles

  15-10-2017 16:21
  They were going up
  
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• Scarlett Moffatt Reveals Her Terrifying Cancer Scare From When She Was A Child

  15-10-2017 16:10
  The star had a huge health scare just after being diagnosed with Bell's palsy
  
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• You Won't Believe The Crazy Purchase Ed Sheeran Made When He Was Drunk

  15-10-2017 15:45
  We've heard of people buying crazy things when drunk but this takes it to a whole new level
  
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• Little Mix Babe Jade Thirlwall Explains Why Her Relationship Is 'A Bit Sh*t'

  15-10-2017 14:47
  The star is in love with Jed Elliott - but definitely not in love with all the travelling
  
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• Sam Smith Opens Up About His Romance With 13 Reasons Why Star Brandon Flynn

  15-10-2017 14:30
  The singer has also explained how he learned to love himself
  
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• Les Vêpres Siciliennes review – an electrifying night at the Opéra

  15-10-2017 14:02
  Royal Opera House, London
  Stefan Herheim’s take on Verdi is restless, lurid and saturated with the opulence of the 19th-century Parisian opera house to which the action is relocated
  There is – to risk sounding obtuse – an awful lot of opera in Stefan Herheim’s take on Verdi’s Les Vêpres Siciliennes. First seen in 2013 at the Royal Opera House, where it is now being revived under the directorial stewardship of Daniel Dooner, Herheim’s production returns t
  
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• This TOWIE Star Is Quitting The Show....

  15-10-2017 13:36
  Time to say goodbye to one of the Essex residents
  
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• Organ Reframed review – kitsch, rapture and white-knuckle intensity

  15-10-2017 13:26
  Union Chapel, London
  Indie rockers joined doyens of the electronic avant garde for a festival of new music exploring the otherworldly sounds of the pipe organIn the last few years it has become fashionable for electronic musicians to renounce their computers in favour of the pre-digital delights of 60s- and 70s-style modular synths. Evidently, the next logical step is the reappraisal of the pipe organ – for what is a pipe organ but the original synthesiser, its array of keyboards, knobs an
  
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• Holly Hagan Absolutely Sizzled On A Night Out (Before Things Got Messy)

  15-10-2017 13:10
  The former Geordie Shore beauty looked absolutely mint on her night out
  
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• Brandon Flowers: ‘We Mormons should fast for 24 hours each month. I’m terrible at it’

  15-10-2017 13:00
  The Killers singer on growing up in Las Vegas – and the thorny issue of drinking colaDad was a produce man. He manned Smiths’ Food And Drug’s produce section, and so did his dad. If you needed someone to pick out your melons, they were your men. My earliest memory is going to the store and Dad giving me a date and then telling me I couldn’t have another.I grew up until I was nine in a small house on the very edge of Las Vegas, with just desert out back. I had four older s
  
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• Scotty T Has Been Showing Off His Marine Engineering Degree Skills And Fans Are Well Impressed

  15-10-2017 12:04
  The reality star is one smart cookie
  
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• St Vincent: Masseduction review – fun but challenging

  15-10-2017 10:00
  (Caroline International)
  With giddy highs and dark lows, Annie Clark’s new album is the mischievous singer’s most direct yetIn 1978, the porn mag Hustler ran one of the most infamous magazine covers in history – a woman’s legs sticking out of a meat-grinder. It played on the idea that the publication treated women like sides of beef (something a Larry Flynt cover line disingenuously protested against).Annie Clark doesn’t actually reproduce this specif
  
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• Bedouine review – a wandering star is born

  15-10-2017 10:00
  The Islington, London
  LA-based singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian writes beguiling folk songs with a granite core, delivered with subtle authorityThere have always been talented singers and nice tunes; while some artists are all about virtuosity, others rely on atmosphere. It’s rare, however, to stumble across such a beguiling confluence of voice, delivery, song-writing and vibes as you find in Bedouine, a mesmerising 33-year-old folk singer, still a cult act but deserving of much wider acc
  
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• Wretch 32: FR32 review – sluggish and solemn

  15-10-2017 09:00
  (Polydor)Wretch has always been one of our most thoughtful, emotional MCs, but his fourth major label album is too comfortable in its introspection. Where Stormzy’s Gang Signs & Prayer carefully balanced bangers and ballads, this is sluggish and solemn. Whitney-sampling Tell Me is clever, subtle, infuriatingly dull. Lyrically, His & Hers (Perspectives) offers an ambitious pair of dramatic monologues, with Wretch purveying both perspectives on an unspooling relationship; musically,
  
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• Robert Plant: Carry Fire review – more of a good thing

  15-10-2017 09:00
  (Nonesuch/Warners)In recent years Robert Plant has been defined by a stylistic restlessness, but his 11th solo album doesn’t deviate wildly in tone from 2014’s Lullaby and … the Ceaseless Roar. He’s backed once again by the Sensational Space Shifters, who artfully flesh out the rock and folk elements with splashes of bendir, oud and djembe. Lyrically Carry Fire sees Plant address bigger issues, whether the evils of colonialism on New World (for its diametrically opposed
  
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• Pink: Beautiful Trauma review – sound familiar?

  15-10-2017 09:00
  (RCA)In a recent New York Times profile, Pink’s manager correctly described this seventh album as “just a continuation of the previous records”. So we get self-consciously “controversial” Pink on the Eminem-featuring Revenge; bruised and heartbroken Pink (the lovely But We Lost It); down and out but with a hint of idealism Pink (Barbies), and the nagging sense that we’ve been here before. It’s a shame, because the pockets of experimentation often work, e
  
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• King Krule: The Ooz review – an immersive listen

  15-10-2017 09:00
  (XL/True Panther Sounds)Archy Marshall manages to cram the spirits of Tom Waits and Mick Jones into his undernourished frame. His unusual, atmospheric music is infused with jazz and the smoky paranoia of dubstep. King Krule’s second album under the name (Marshall has a few aliases) makes good on the murky promise of his debut, 2013’s 6 Feet Beneath the Moon. Over 19 tracks some focus is lost, but focus isn’t really the point of Krule, whose moods make for an immersive listen. T
  
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• Cara Dillon: Wanderer review – gorgeous homesick blues

  15-10-2017 09:00
  (Charcoal)Having lived much of her life away from her native Derry, Cara Dillon identifies with the “songs of departure and longing for home” that make up her seventh album. There are a pair of notable originals, but traditional ballads dominate; some, like Blackwater Side well known, others, like The Tern and the Swallow, particular to her homeland. Dillon’s charm lies in both her crystalline, melodic voice and the unusual fluency she brings to antique material – even li
  
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• Beck: Colors review – a hymn to hedonistic pop

  15-10-2017 08:59
  (Virgin)It’s typical of the restless Beck that his follow-up to the pensive Morning Phase is a loose-limbed hymn to hedonistic pop. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, but given Beck’s ability to redraw rock’s boundaries, Colors is depressingly short of real surprises, its energy a poor substitute for drama or ideas. I’m So Free is sterile skate-punk with a feeble rap, while the shiny Up All Night fails to transcend its pedestrian title. Infrequently there are bu
  
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• Glass, Vasks, Pärt, Uçarsu: Company CD review – a fascinating quartet of quartets

  15-10-2017 08:25
  Borusan Quartet
  (Onyx)Of four living composers here, one is less well known. Like the Borusan Quartet itself, Hasan Uçarsu (born 1965) is Turkish. His String Quartet No 2 “The Untold” consists of two short, pensive outer movements – called epilogue and prologue – and two questing, energetic central movements full of Anatolian folk inspiration. Arvo Pärt’s Summa is a string version of a meditative vocal piece from 1977. Pēteris Vasks, like Pärt,
  
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