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Baby Queen spoke to NME backstage at Reading Festival 2023 about how The 1975‘s self-titled debut has impacted her career. Watch the full interview above.Last night (August 26), The 1975 performed the record – which celebrates its 10th anniversary next week (September 1) – in full as they headlined Main Stage West. “This set does, eventually, remind you what it means for such a characterful and often misunderstood debut album to still be so beloved,” said NME in a four-star review of the performance.Speaking of what it meant to grow up with ‘The 1975’, which spawned hit singles ‘Chocolate’ and ‘Sex’, the artist – born Bella Latham – explained: “I was 17-years-old and still in South Africa when it came out, and it was when I started to go off the rails.

ZAND has spoken to NME about their Reading Festival debut, queer community of fans, touring with Peaches and recent collab with Jeremy Corbyn. Watch our full video interview above.The rising alternative star caught up with NME backstage, shortly after performing at the festival for the first time – something they have dreamed of doing since they first came as a 16-year-old.“This has been on my bucket-list for a long, long, long, long, long time – so it is crazy to actually be playing the thing,” said the London-based artist, real name Zander Sweeney.With an audience they describe as “very slay”, ZAND said the turn-out was very representative of their fans who tend to be “probably non-binary, or just queer as fuck if not!”“They probably have dyed hair, or just some part of their head shaved,” ZAND explained.

Toyah Willcox and husband Robert Fripp have shared a new cover of The Hives for their Sunday Lunch series – watch below.While the summer has mostly seen the pair revisiting old entries into their legendary lockdown series, today (August 27) they have shared a brand new cover.The version of ‘Hate To Say I Told You So’ sees Fripp dressed as a bee as they rage through a cover of the Swedish indie rock band’s biggest hit.Check it out below.Earlier this summer, the pair appeared at Glastonbury Festival, performing a cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’.Ahead of their performance, the couple caught up with NME backstage to discuss their reaction to the sudden momentum that the web series got, and reveal their plans to take the show to television.“We’ve actually been picked up by a world agency and we have decided that we’re going to give them a set amount of years,” Willcox responded when asked how long the couple see Sunday Lunch continuing for. Fripp also stated that he would be happy to continue performing until his mid-80s.“At the moment our social media numbers are growing.

vinyl record shop in Teesside is set to close following the death of its owner.Sound It Out has been under the ownership of Tom Butchart since 1998, but the owner passed away in June, and the shop will now close at the end of the month.In a post on Facebook, Butchart’s wife Clare said of the closure: “It has not been an easy decision. The shop was Tom’s baby and his passion of which I am and always will be immensely proud.“Sound It Out Records died with Tom that day.

Phoebe Bridgers made another onstage appearance with Christian Lee Hutson at Connect Festival today (August 27), after the pair performed together at an Øya festival spin-off show earlier this month.Performing at the Edinburgh festival at Royal Highland Showground today, where Boygenius – Bridgers’ band with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus – are due to headline, she came out to sing ‘Lose This Number’, ‘Chesapeake’ and ‘Rubberneckers‘ with the US singer-songwriter.Their performance follows Bridgers’ surprise appearance at Oslo’s Vulkan Arena concert hall earlier this month – where Hutson headlined the venue as part of his ongoing tour.Check out footage of this weekend’s performance below.“Phoebe and I were in this band called Better Oblivion Community Center,” Hutson said before they performed ‘Chesapeake’. “And we’re gonna do this song from that,” he said, joking that they “might abort it” part way through.She previously teamed up with Hutson on stage at last year’s The Ally Coalition benefit gig and during a television appearance on CBS Mornings.

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Duran Duran has revealed that the reason he quit the band was due to “creative” reasons, and was “not personal”.Taylor played with Duran Duran on-and-off between 1980 and 2006, and was set to reunite with them last year when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, but a setback in his treatment for stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer forced him to miss the occasion.The musician, 62, has now opened up about his reasons for quitting the new wave band after decades of rumours about feuds, sharing that it was “creative, not personal”.In a new interview Classic Pop magazine (via MusicNews), the guitarist said that it “bugged” him that the band brought in a wider circle of people for 2007 album ‘Red Carpet Massacre‘, which was produced largely by Timbaland.“I couldn’t do the Timbaland album, because it just didn’t move me,” he said. “I was saying to the others, ‘Why do we need this?’“There’s so much talent in that band, I never felt the need to bring other people in to write with Duran.

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Florence + The Machine‘s Florence Welch has revealed that she has undergone “emergency surgery” that “saved my life”.The band had to cancel a pair of recent shows at the Zurich Open Air and Rock en Seine festivals “on medical advice,” and Welch has now explained the reasons to fans on Instagram.“I’m so sorry that I had to cancel the last couple of shows,” she wrote, explaining that it is unrelated to a broken foot that caused the postponement of a UK tour at the turn of the year.“My feet are fine, I had to have emergency surgery for reasons I don’t really feel strong enough to go into yet but it saved my life.”Welch went on to add that she will go ahead with the final two shows of the band’s world tour behind 2022 album ‘Dance Fever’ in Lisbon and Malaga next week (September 1-2).“Suffice to say I wish the songs were less accurate in their predictions,” she added. “But creativity is a way of coping, mythology is way of making sense.

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Stacey Solomon has shared that she couldn't stop laughing after seeing a "full-blown glossy advert" which featured the TV personality sitting on the toilet. Posting a video to her Instagram Story, the Loose Women panellist, 33, was in the middle of sharing what her children had been up to over the weekend when she remembered the newly released advert.

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy paid tribute to Lewis Capaldi during the band’s headline set at Reading Festival on Saturday. Scottish singer Lewis had been lined up to play the festival, but, following his performance at Glastonbury this year, he announced on his social media accounts that he would be “taking a break” from touring.The musician, who released the album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent earlier this year, said he is still “learning to adjust to the impact” of his Tourette’s.

Following the exciting news that she's replaced Sophia Bush as the frontwoman of West End sensational 2:22: A Ghost Story, singer-turned-actress Frankie Bridge looked flawless as she took to the streets following a performance of the hit show.The former The Saturdays singer, 34, set tongues wagging as she left London's Apollo Theatre wearing a sultry strapless bra top, which she paired with a fashion-forward denim maxi skirt and long-line black blazer. Frankie's black Prada bandeau and shin-length skirt showed off the performers impressive midriff, with the simple yet sophisticated outfit choice also highlighting her golden, shoulder-length tresses.

finalized her upcoming contract on the game show, according to a new report, just weeks before the show is slated to return to ABC on September 11.“Vanna and the producers are currently on a similar page and want to get a deal done but they both have a few hiccups to still clear through,” an unidentified source alleged to the Daily Mail.“They both know they have a lot of time to do it and more discussions to be had but everyone wants something achieved and wouldn’t want Pat’s last year hampered by the constant news of the revolving contract dispute drama,” the insider continued. “They want to celebrate this year with little to no drama whatsoever.”The Post reached out to White’s representatives for comment.The upcoming 41st season of “Wheel of Fortune” will make history, as it marks Pat Sajak’s last as host before he retires and Ryan Seacrest takes over.

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