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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge: ‘Bands need to be larger than life’

  07-06-2018 18:14
  With their twisted Catholic imagery, the Swedish band were one of the most mysterious in metal. But after lawsuits and infighting, their masks were ripped off …‘The plague, the apocalypse and the imminent death and destruction of our lives”: that is how Tobias Forge, the mastermind behind the Swedish band Ghost, describes their latest album, Prequelle. He thinks it may be the first positive record to be written about the Black Death. “The plague of the 1300s was a big ki
  
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• Aaron Chalmers' Hair Is 'Gone' As He Chops Off His Locks And Films Painful Laser Tattoo Removal

  07-06-2018 16:49
  The Geordie Shore lad is switching up his look.
  
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• Colourful Platform Game de Blob Is Coming To Nintendo Switch

  07-06-2018 16:19
  Yet another classic Nintendo platformer is coming to Nintendo's mobile system.
  
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• The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I was very optimistic when I was young – now I'm the opposite'

  07-06-2018 14:00
  The singer and songwriter has been curating the Meltdown festival, and is planning to record the first Cure album in 10 years. But will it be fuelled by magic mushroom tea?The first thing Robert Smith does is apologise for the makeup. He hasn’t worn it since his last concert with the Cure, in December 2016, but he has a photoshoot today at the Royal Festival Hall and thinks his features are too indistinct without it. To be honest, I would be disappointed if he wasn’t wearing it, alon
  
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• Get To Know: Suzi Wu

  07-06-2018 13:30
  We're Getting To Know the difficult-to-define North London artist in this weeks introducing interview...
  
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• Just Tattoo Of Us: Everything You Need To Know About Series 3

  07-06-2018 13:02
  Just Tattoo Of Us continues Mondays at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about volume

  07-06-2018 13:00
  Turning it up this week we have Tom Waits, Oasis and AC/DC – balanced out by some more subdued fare from Jim Reeves
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.It was an inviolable principle this week that to warrant inclusion in the playlist a song had to be focused on reflecting the subtleties of “volume” rather than
  
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• Watch Moment Love Island's Adam Collard Was A Geordie Shore Extra In Three-Way Snog With Charlotte Crosby And Chloe Ferry

  07-06-2018 12:36
  The Love Island lad claimed he 'turned down' the chance to be on the show.
  
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• Beyoncé & JAY-Z’s On The Run II Tour: What We Know

  07-06-2018 12:20
  We've got ALL the details you wanna know..
  
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• Tove Lo Drops Provocative 'bitches' Video Ft. Charli XCX, Icona Pop, Elliphant & ALMA

  07-06-2018 12:02
  We wouldn't expect anything less...
  
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• Kim Kardashian's Plea To Donald Trump Pays Off As Alice Johnson Is Released From Prison

  07-06-2018 11:29
  Donald Trump commuted Alice Johnson's sentence on Wednesday.
  
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• Zayn Malik And Gigi Hadid Confirm They're Back On With Cute Insta Snuggle

  07-06-2018 10:59
  Zigi forever!
  
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• Morrissey expresses sympathy for jailed EDL founder Tommy Robinson

  07-06-2018 10:56
  Singer declares jailing of far-right figure for contempt of court ‘shocking treatment … it’s very obvious that Labour or the Tories do not believe in free speech’Morrissey has expressed sympathy for the founder of the far-right English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, who was jailed last week for 13 months for being found in contempt of court.Robinson had broadcast an hour-long video to Facebook outside Leeds crown court, making comments that risked the collapse of a tria
  
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• Beyoncé & Jay-Z: OTR II review – heart-stopping scenes from a marriage

  07-06-2018 10:13
  Principality Stadium, Cardiff
  On the opening night of their collaborative world tour, the biggest couple in pop are glorious and charismatic – even if the romantic story arc plays down their traumaAs self-mythologising couples go, not many come close to Beyoncé and Jay-Z. The pair’s first collaboration, ’03 Bonnie and Clyde, was a tale of devotional love accompanied by a video featuring Beyoncé as the ride-or-die moll to her rumoured boyfriend’s gangster. It
  
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