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• Charlotte Crosby Addresses Pete Wicks Dating Rumours

  29-10-2017 17:50
  The Geordie Shore star and the TOWIE hunk were recently photographed together at a party
  
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• Scarlett Moffatt's Vomit-Filled Halloween Weekend Sounds Absolutely Hellish

  29-10-2017 16:55
  The reality star has not had a good weekend
  
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• Kylie Jenner Is Unleashing TEN New Lip Glosses And Everybody Can't Wait

  29-10-2017 16:45
  The reality star has showed off a couple of her new colours
  
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• Liam Payne Claims He Telepathically Knows What Cheryl Is Thinking

  29-10-2017 16:25
  He also thinks his baby son Bear is so perfect it is like he was 'created by a computer'
  
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• JK Rowling Has Finally Revealed The Inspiration Behind The Deathly Hallows Symbol

  29-10-2017 16:15
  The Harry Potter series might be 20 years old - but some secrets are still only just being uncovered
  
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• Kim And Kourtney Kardashian Have Won Halloween With Their Incredible Music Icon Costumes

  29-10-2017 13:53
  Kim and Kourt transformed into Madonna and MJ
  
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• Looks Like The Cast Of Riverdale Had A Really Wild Halloween Night Out

  29-10-2017 13:43
  Spiderman and Venom fighting over Camila Mendes?
  
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• Brecon Baroque festival review – vibrant Vivaldi and mesmerising Monteverdi

  29-10-2017 13:27
  Brecon cathedral/Theatr Brycheiniog
  I Fagiolini delivered a gutsy, refined rendering of Monteverdi’s Other Vespers and the Brecon Baroque gave the Four Seasons thrilling new lifeWith characteristic ingenuity, I Fagiolini have looked beyond the obvious for their celebration of Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary, and with it their own 30th, to bring to the public ear what they call The Other Vespers, namely not the Vespers of 1610. A collection evocatively named Selva Morale e Spirituale &
  
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• Stephen Bear Was A Dead Harry Potter For Halloween And Fans Were Turned On

  29-10-2017 12:26
  Everyone was absolutely loving Bear's costume
  
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• WEDO/Barenboim review – glorious Quixote makes for sublime tribute to lost love

  29-10-2017 11:38
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Daniel Barenboim paid tribute to his first wife, Jacqueline du Pré, with an unmatched live performance of Strauss’s Don Quixote, featuring a sublime Kian Soltani on celloThis wonderful concert was the first of a pair given by Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra to raise funds for the MS Society in tribute to Barenboim’s first wife, Jacqueline du Pré, who died 30 years ago this month. The evening began with extracts from Chri
  
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• Kojey Radical review – raw energy and rare charisma

  29-10-2017 10:00
  Village Underground, London
  The young British rapper maintains a thrilling stage presence while tackling weighty topics in a bravura performanceIt feels apt that, before poet-turned-rapper Kojey Radical takes to the stage for his sold-out show at east London’s cavernous Village Underground, some big hip-hop songs herald his arrival – Kendrick Lamar and Drake, for example, get a whirl from the DJ hyping the crowd. But it’s oddly more telling when, after the Hoxton-based artist l
  
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• Henry Jamison: The Wilds review – an unshowy, literate gem

  29-10-2017 10:00
  (Akira)There are so many songs about drinking. There are probably nearly as many about giving up. But there aren’t all that many songs about one modern situation: your lover’s new-found sobriety, and where that leaves you. A drinker? Supportive? In denial? Or, as Henry Jamison, an insightful Vermont singer-songwriter, puts it elliptically on a song called Dallas Love Field: “Black as the kettle’s the hypocrite pot/ Often than more, more often than not.”Jamison
  
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• Weezer: Pacific Daydream review – the shiny and the anodyne

  29-10-2017 09:00
  (Crush/Atlantic)After two decades of underachievement, last year’s self-titled “White Album” at least marked a partial return to form for Weezer. Its Beach Boys influences are revisited here, then given a modern R&B twist courtesy of Rivers Cuomo’s co-writers, whose credits include Beyoncé, Rihanna and Jessie J songs. The crunching guitar of Mexican Fender, the harmonies of Weekend Woman and (the lazily titled) Beach Boys, and the pop smarts of Feels Like Summe
  
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• Thelonious Monk: Piano Solo review – his compelling first solo recording

  29-10-2017 09:00
  (Sony Legacy)Monk’s centennial month shouldn’t be allowed to expire without mention of this modest but important release. In Europe for the first time, and having struggled through two concerts with bewildered French accompanists, he made this, his first solo recording, in a Paris radio studio. Raw and angular as they sound, these nine pieces are utterly compelling. Without supporting bass and drums, Monk draws on his early influences to lay down left-hand rhythm patterns, including
  
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• Megan Henwood: River review – a worldly, mature work

  29-10-2017 09:00
  (Dharma)Megan Henwood is “folk” in the same way as Laura Marling, meaning she’s a singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar. As on her previous two albums, River also comes with a backdrop of low-key electronica courtesy of producer Tom Excell, jazzy bass and cello and, a new addition, a wistful trumpet on Fresh Water, a standout among a fine set of songs. Affairs of the heart are upfront on House on the Hill, and The Dolly pays tribute to her current hometown, Oxford, but Henw
  
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• Fever Ray: Plunge – a mood of menace

  29-10-2017 09:00
  (PIAS)Trailed by a mysterious video, preceded by an arresting single, To the Moon and Back, and stealth-released on Friday, Fever Ray’s first new music in eight years finds Karin Dreijer (she seems to have lost the Andersson) in fierce form. Pitch-shifted into a pervading mood of menace, Dreijer’s vocals grapple with sex and relationships, with political engagement never far away (“Free abortions and clean water!” she huffs on This Country). Her electronics, meanwhile, ar
  
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• Curtis Harding: Face Your Fear review – thoughtful vintage soul

  29-10-2017 09:00
  (Anti-)One problem with harking back to classic sounds is that your slinky skill set risks producing generic music. Once a backup singer for Cee-Lo Green, Curtis Harding is on his second album of vintage soul, and often he’s just a little too good at it: a few tracks can pass by in a pleasant period fug. Stay with him, though, and the curveballs become more obvious. The spacey Go As You Are is as disoriented as it is poignant, and Til the End is a sassy retro-modern fusion. Keyboards to th
  
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• Bootsy Collins: World Wide Funk review – 50 years on, he’s still got it

  29-10-2017 09:00
  (Mascot)One of funk’s most important, most eccentric artists, Bootsy Collins’s aim on this latest record was to “create a mystical monster born between a pee-hole and a[n] asshole”. It’s hard to judge how successful World Wide Funk is on those terms, but the bassist/singer-songwriter’s ninth solo album has plenty to offer. Anachronistic at times, it’s still endearingly schmaltzy, with Kali Uchis’s delicious intonations, smooth rap from Blvck Seeds,
  
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• Katchi

  29-10-2017 02:07 via mtv.co.uk
  Katchi (Ofenbach vs. Nick Waterhouse)
  
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