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• From Nicki Minaj To Meghan Markle: 11 Celebrities Who Changed Their Name For Their Careers

  13-05-2018 17:41
  Some of these might surprise you.
  
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• Scott Hutchison obituary

  13-05-2018 16:22
  Singer and writer of emotionally raw folk-rock songs that attracted a wide following for his band, Frightened Rabbit“Chloroform the singer who has nothing to say/ Stare in wonder as the masses sing along anyway,” Scott Hutchison sang on Songs About Roses, a track from the solo album he released in 2014. As bare-boned as anything he wrote, it skewered false gods and those who deified them while flaying himself for not living up to his own exacting standards. Hutchison, who has taken h
  
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• Anne-Marie: ‘I’ve looked inside a festival loo before … not nice’

  13-05-2018 15:00
  The chart-topping singer shares her festival experiences, from sweaty tent mornings to her hatred of long drops Had you been to many festivals before being asked to actually sing at one?
  When I was 18 I went to V festival because my friend had split up with his girlfriend and he needed someone to go with. I loved the staying in the tent bit and seeing loads of different artists in one night. I just never really had the passion to do that every week at a different festival. It was very wet and yo
  
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• Vicky Pattison Is Literally All Of Us Trying To Find The Motivation To Hit The Gym

  13-05-2018 14:18
  The former Geordie Shore lass is feeling conflicted about some of her choices
  
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• SZA, Brockhampton and Sigrid: 2018’s festival anthems

  13-05-2018 14:00
  What makes a banging festival anthem, besides a simple chorus that vast crowds can belt out in unison? Here are the tracks you can expect to hear all summer Related: 18 for ’18: the talent and trends tipped for the top in 2018 In 1970, a band called Fairfield Parlour were commissioned to write a “theme tune” for the Isle of Wight festival. They obligingly changed their name to I Luv Wight and devised a charming bit of psych whimsy called Let the World Wash In. The event it
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Received The Best Early Birthday Present From Boyfriend Josh Ritchie

  13-05-2018 13:28
  This probably isn't even her main present and our minds are pretty much blown.
  
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• MNEK: ‘The tent thing is not going to happen’

  13-05-2018 13:00
  The singer-songwriter shares his festival thoughts on Noel Gallagher’s questionable opinions on rap and height-related tent woes You’re a tall man. How do you feel about sleeping in a tent?
  It’s just not what I’m made to do [laughs]. It’s not practical. The tent thing is not going to happen.If you dropped your phone down a festival toilet, would you attempt to retrieve it?
  Abso-fucking-lutely. I love my tech. That’s the whole thing with camping, I’m too
  
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• MNEK: ‘I snogged my ex, but I haven’t gone as far as ho-ing at a festival’

  13-05-2018 13:00
  The singer-songwriter shares his festival thoughts on Noel Gallagher’s questionable opinions on rap and height-related tent woes You’re a tall man. How do you feel about sleeping in a tent?
  It’s just not what I’m made to do [laughs]. It’s not practical. The tent thing is not going to happen.If you dropped your phone down a festival toilet, would you attempt to retrieve it?
  Abso-fucking-lutely. I love my tech. That’s the whole thing with camping, I’m too
  
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• Rita Ora review – waving a tartan flag with infectious vigour

  13-05-2018 12:54
  Academy, Glasgow
  The queen of the side hustle is back with a smartly tailored set of monster hits and new favouritesIn the six years since her peppy, poppy debut album reached No 1 in the UK, Rita Ora has proven herself to be queen of the side hustle. In a world that has embraced the gig economy, she has enthusiastically turned her hand to pretty much anything, anywhere. There have been bipartisan judging stints on The Voice and The X Factor. She was selected to spearhead the reboot of America&r
  
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• These Pictures Of Chloe Ferry Will Leave You Seriously Considering Bright Purple Hair

  13-05-2018 12:30
  The Geordie Shore lass is set to drop her own synthetic wig collection.
  
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• Liam Gallagher, Jack White, Damon Albarn: how to grow old in rock

  13-05-2018 12:00
  Festival lineups are filled with middle-aged stars and former headliners. But how can musicians stay relevant in a millennial music age?
  People often talk about music going in cycles. However, after each cycle – flatulent indie, breathy electro, murmuring rappers who only use vowels – is complete, the artists who participated rarely disappear; they just continue releasing music that fewer people care about. Now is the perfect time to appraise these beings. This summer’s festiva
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Shares First Glimpse Of True Thompson After Getting Her Birthday Wrong

  13-05-2018 11:47
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star jumped the gun by a whole two days.
  
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• On my radar: Isla Fisher’s cultural highlights

  13-05-2018 11:00
  The actor and children’s author on a VR installation about Mexican immigrants, sitcom Nathan for You and a hilarious memoir by the breakout star of Girls TripBorn in Oman in 1976 to Scottish parents, Isla Fisher moved to Australia at the age of six. Her acting career began in the Australian soap Home and Away and her films include Wedding Crashers (2005), The Great Gatsby (2013) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Sacha Baron Cohen and their three childr
  
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• Kings of Leon to Kanye West: the cringiest festival TV moments

  13-05-2018 11:00
  Festival season means live coverage of unpredictable, drunk or stupid stars on and off stage. It doesn’t always work out Continue reading...
  
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• Dani Filth: ‘Marilyn Manson is a likable fellow, so I’d give him my wet wipes’

  13-05-2018 10:00
  The Cradle of Filth frontman shares his festival stories - from tent peg nightmares to his dream boyband lineup You live in Suffolk. Ever visited the Suffolk-based Latitude festival?
  I haven’t been. I don’t really care for much of the bands that play it, but my wife, daughter, sister and my mum have been to it. I find something else to do.On a scale of one to 10, how filthy are you at a festival?
  I’m completely the opposite, to be honest. If I go to a festival I make sure I&rsq
  
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• Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino review – one giant leap for Alex Turner

  13-05-2018 10:00
  Sheffield’s finest swap earthy rock for lunar vibes. It could lose rather than win fans, but that may be the point…There are hard acts to follow, and then there’s Arctic Monkeys’ last album. 2013’s AM was, in so many respects, the perfect rock record of our times. With a few exceptions, mainstream indie guitar music often seems an exhausted idiom, trying on fifth-hand poses to diminishing creative returns.On AM – a record about lust in LA – the Monkeys&
  
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• Dave Haslam: ‘That time, that music… it changed lives. It makes Manchester what it is’

  13-05-2018 09:00
  Dave Haslam was the last DJ to man the decks at the Haçienda. Now, on the release of his memoir, he talks about his greatest days in music, Sonic Youth and Morrissey, and why family life can be a cage• Read an extract from Dave Haslam’s Sonic Youth Slept on My FloorWriter and DJ Dave Haslam grew up in Birmingham and moved to Manchester in 1980. He ran his own successful fanzine, Debris, from 1983-87, interviewing many local musicians and artists; he also worked as a booker, ran
  
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• Beach House: 7 review – dream-pop duo find greater depth

  13-05-2018 09:00
  (Bella Union)Over a decade in, listeners probably know where they stand on Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House. For many, their pillowy wooze’n’coo is beguiling; a world of thrumming organs and FX-laden guitars that’s easy to disappear into. For others, their charm is more mystifying. If you’ve heard Mazzy Star and My Bloody Valentine, it’s hard not to roll your eyes at Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally’s ongoing debt to the 80s/90s cusp.Undaunted and enduring,
  
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• ‘You can wee in a catsuit!’: Perfume Genius’ festival tips

  13-05-2018 08:00
  Got a festival-related problem? Our agony uncle solves your dilemmas and despairs, from dodgy burgers to teeth cleanliness concerns Related: Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email: music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras My boyfriend insists on bringing his acoustic guitar to the festival and breaking into a bit of Shape of You on the campsite. Should I dump him? Christine, Oxford
  Yes, 100%. I actually like Shape of You, it’s just the breaking out of an acoustic guitar I don’t lik
  
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• Take R Kelly’s smug face off Spotify altogether | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

  13-05-2018 07:00
  The #MuteRKelly campaign is causing the people and companies still working with the singer to take actionI was pleased to learn that Spotify has decided to remove R Kelly from its playlists, but the question remains as to whether the music-streaming service has gone far enough. “We don’t censor content because of an artist’s or creator’s behaviour, but we want our editorial decisions – what we choose to program – to reflect our values,” it announced, mea
  
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