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• Jimmy Barnes confronts his demons: 'For 40 years, I was drinking myself to death'

  22-10-2017 19:00
  The Cold Chisel frontman opens up about his wayward past as his second memoir, Working Class Man, hits the shelvesWhen Jimmy Barnes shakes your hand, he’s scoping your knuckles. Are they split from fighting? Just how big is your hand, anyway? “I’m friendly but I’ll want to have my back to the wall,” he explains. “I know where all the exits are and I’ll know who I have to hit if I want to get out.”Continue reading...
  
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• Little Mix Are Officially Rich After Banking Over One Million Pounds Each

  22-10-2017 16:15
  Little Mix's Perrie, Jesy, Leigh-Anne and Jade are now a little rich
  
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• Vicky Pattison Has A Giant Girl Crush On THIS Towie Star

  22-10-2017 16:09
  And the Towie babe loves her right back
  
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• Scarlett Moffatt Just Admitted Doing Something Pretty 'Weird' In The Bathroom

  22-10-2017 15:14
  The star has a very different way of unwinding when she is all by herself
  
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• Niall Horan Slams President Trump As A 'F**king Joke' And Demands He Be Impeached

  22-10-2017 15:00
  The One Direction heartthrob wants Tump to be fired from the White House
  
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• Justin Bieber Proudly Flashed His New Tattoos - But Leaves Fans Divided

  22-10-2017 14:53
  The Sorry singer has upset some of his followers by covering his body in ink
  
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• Stormzy's Biggest Fear Is Something Really Wild

  22-10-2017 13:11
  The grime star is a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to one particular wild animal
  
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• Love Island's Jess Shears Explains Exactly Why She Loves To Strip Off

  22-10-2017 12:35
  The reality star is VERY confident in her own skin
  
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• Marnie Simpson And Casey Johnson Have Just Bought A House Together

  22-10-2017 12:27
  The Single AF lovers are moving fast because they know they're perfect for each other
  
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• Rolling Stone founder falls out with biographer over candid life story

  22-10-2017 11:00
  Jann Wenner, whose magazine charted pop music and culture since the 60s, gave Joe Hagan full access but is unhappy with the result, especially ‘the sexual stuff’The relationship between biographer and subject can be notoriously tricky, filled with undefined expectations. But rarely does it come apart as dramatically as it has between Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner and the writer of his life, Joe Hagan. Related: Jann Wenner: ‘Hunter S Thompson let his talent slip’Contin
  
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• Grace Jones: ‘Size zero is like the walking dead. Not sexy at all’

  22-10-2017 10:00
  The model, singer – and subject of a new film – on Trump, not being allowed to hit people and why she misses ConcordeA singer, songwriter, actor and model, Grace Jones was born in Jamaica in 1948. She was brought up by her grandmother and violent step-grandfather and moved to Syracuse, New York, to join her parents when she was 13. In the 80s, she had several hits, including Pull Up to the Bumper, My Jamaican Guy and Slave to the Rhythm, which combined reggae, funk and new wave. She
  
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• Margo Price: All American Made review – country soaked in serotonin

  22-10-2017 09:59
  (Third Man)
  Drink, depression and pedal steel all make their presence felt on the Nashville singer’s wry and charming second setMidwest Farmer’s Daughter, Margo Price’s 2016 debut, was one of those rare country records that reminded outsiders that the genre of rhinestones and melodies could still throw out plenty of grit. It established Price as a penetrating new voice, drawing on her own heart-rending tribulations – poverty, jail, bereavement – and railing aga
  
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• Krept and Konan: 7 Days; 7 Nights review – wild and thrilling talent

  22-10-2017 09:00
  (Virgin EMI)South London’s Krept and Konan return with a generous 21-track double mixtape, divided between grime (Days) and R&B raps (Nights). Both playlists have plenty of the wit, grit and authenticity that made them famous, but 7 Days is the runaway winner. The pair spit so hard you can hear saliva smacking microphone metal. Opener Champions League (“You ain’t even in the Prem yet,” they cackle) is an authoritative start, and the following 10 songs confirm their wi
  
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• Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile: Lotta Sea Lice review – high hopes not quite met

  22-10-2017 09:00
  (Marathon Artists/Matador/Milk!) Related: Courtney Barnett: ‘It’s easy to feel hopeless and lost in this weird world’ A collaboration between these two singer-songwriters makes for an intriguing prospect, Vile’s melodic nous and J Mascis-worthy hypnopompic drawl seemingly the perfect complement to Barnett’s pin-sharp observational lyrics. And so it proves on opener Over Everything, a conversation between the two about songwriting set to gently meandering guitar that
  
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• RL Boyce: ‘I want the world to know what I do’

  22-10-2017 08:59
  The Mississippi bluesman on his musical influences, living the slow life and his never-ending house partiesRL Boyce is the reigning master of hill country blues. A one-time drummer for Jessie Mae Hemphill, he took up blues guitar at the age of 22, but it was 30 years before he recorded his first album. This year, at the age of 62, he released his second album, Roll and Tumble, out now on Waxploitation. Boyce makes his UK debut at the Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch, London, on 25 October and the Blu
  
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• The Breeders review – Kim Deal’s music continues to defy physics

  22-10-2017 08:00
  Electric Ballroom, London
  Kim Deal’s alt-rock heroes polish up old favourites, showcase a mighty new single and sign off with an all-time Pixies classicThe floor is sticky, the aircon is a misnomer, and no one under 6ft can see much. Little has changed in this grungey north London venue, it seems, since the 90s.Even before they play the quiet but skewering No Aloha, you can just about see from the acute angle of the three guitar necks that this is the Breeders, a leading outfit of the alt-
  
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