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• Going underground: mod revival fanzines – in pictures

  26-01-2019 18:00
  Over the past year, Acid Jazz label owner/DJ Ed Piller and designer Steve Rowland have been putting together a book of mod revival fanzines from 1978 to 1984, entitled Modzines. “They’re an important social record,” Piller says. “By 1980, the mainstream media was virtually ignoring the enormous mod revival, apart from to disparage it.” Fanzines existed to “inform mods about culture, fashion and music”, says Piller. Their creation was aided by the rise of
  
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• The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman

  26-01-2019 15:00
  O2 Academy, Leeds
  A dislocated shoulder can’t stop Mike Skinner pushing the Streets forward. And new material suggests he’s far from a spent forceMike Skinner is not crowd-surfing tonight. Thanks to his appearances in moshpits during last year’s adoringly received reunion tour, Streets fans have come to half expect the communion of artist and punter as part of a night out with this revenant everyman bard.Those 2018 gigs sold out in seconds, marking the first time in seven years
  
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• One to Watch: Rosie Turton

  26-01-2019 15:00
  There are ragas, hip-hop and plenty of trombone on the debut from this leading light of London’s new jazz sceneThe trombone is an unusual instrument to see centre stage. The unwieldy, fiendishly difficult brass loop isn’t the sexiest of options for a bandleader, but it’s a hugely underrated one. Its range – from pillowy breath tones to the crystalline shards of a full blast – means that the instrument has been favoured by musicians ranging from 60s jazz-funk pioneer
  
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• Neneh Cherry: ‘I love being a grandma’

  26-01-2019 15:00
  The singer, 54, on her breakthrough, her breakdown, and the guy who stole her GrammyPorridge helps my brain work. I used to be force-fed it by my mother and I thought: “This is the most boring breakfast in the world. Who wants to eat this stuff?” But there’s no doubt it sets you straight for the day. It’s like a little warm caress in the belly.As you get older, loss becomes such a big part of life. I lost [stylist] Judy Blame, one of my closest friends, early last year. H
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Worries Fans After Almost Setting Bathroom On Fire

  26-01-2019 13:23
  The Charlotte Show star gave fans a scare after she started a fire while in the bath...
  
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• The Game Raps About Sex With Kim Kardashian And People Are Disgusted

  26-01-2019 12:52
  The X-rated lyrics are being called out...
  
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