The Guardian » 1 week ago
AO Arena, ManchesterIn an expansive, transporting show that draws on his diverse decades and a world of pain, the singer-songwriter turned guru to all sets his sights on the stars – and anyone within touching distance“YEAHYEAHYEAHYEA...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The singer, 35, opens up about fame before social media, psychiatric support, and the one thing she’d change about her weddingI was anxious from the womb. It’s who I am. As a child, my thoughts would happen at night-time: I’d struggle to breat...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Husky-voiced British singer Emily Perry’s enigmatic songwriting goes hand in hand with her day job as a gardener…“Since I was 10, my teachers asked my parents if I smoked!” Pem is trying to explain where her enthralling, vibrato-rippling voice comes from. ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Robert Smith says getting first chart-topper since 1992’s Wish is ‘enormously uplifting’ and ‘genuinely heartwarming’The Cure have scored their first UK No 1 album in 32 years, with Songs of a Lost World.The band’s frontman Robert Smith said: “It is eno...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The musician enjoys slow, quiet Sundays in Germany, likes a catnap and tries to live in realitySunday work or rest? My job doesn’t differentiate weekends from weekdays. Most musicians would say that. But I do try to keep my Sundays something l...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Isolated in Brisbane, the Saints released a punk single before the Damned, Sex Pistols and the Clash. As they reform after their singer’s death, they recall their journey from school detention to Top of the PopsThe story of one of the most extraordinary...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Singer describes recent meeting where Simon said he was offended by an old interview, and pair reconciledArt Garfunkel has described a recent tearful reunion with Paul Simon, in which the pair moved past old enmities.Speaking to the Times, Garfunkel sai...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
(Smalltown Supersound)With Ukraine on his mind, British producer Darren J Cunningham mixes electronics, found sounds and fleeting vocals that both sooth and disruptA self-titled record can be significant, signalling a reset or autobiographical candour. Neither q...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
(Daemon TV)The Newcastle musician follows up 2021’s Homecoming with an infectiously freewheeling album on which she performs, produces and engineers pretty much everythingThe playful garage-pop of recent ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
‘The first time we opened for James Brown, we got 20 minutes on stage. Then when he heard the crowd response, he cut it to 15. By the end of the tour, he’d cut us back to five’Three of us were in a Philadelphia group called the Monarchs and the other gu...
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