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The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed - including a close-up snap of an angry crocodile. More than 6,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com contest across 17 categories - from macro close-ups to wide angle shots, with two Brits claiming gold medals. A lemon shark glides through the late-afternoon sunlight off the coast of Grand Bahama Tanya Houppermans One of these was Tom St George who scooped a gold in the Wide Angle/Marine Life category...

Venue: KOKO, London Date: 23.3.18 Support: Youth Code Photos: Jez Pennington (@JezPennington) French synth artist Carpenter Brut smashed his London date last week, stopping into KOKO to air tracks from his Latest album Leather Teeth. Brut, who has continued his rise to prominence soundtracking ultra-violent indie game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, insisted on silhouette shots only while he performed, to maintain the mystery around his identity. Photographer Jez Pennington was on the barrier to capture the moody, searing-hot synthwave...

A new short film has been released by notorious Corbynista Angry Dan depicting an alternative history of one of London's most iconic landmarks. The artist, who designed the widely popular Jeremy Corbyn Superman t­shirt, has released "The Man Who Stood Still Forever" which tells the story of a mythical man’s epic delusions of grandeur. The film is narrated by Sam Rix, an actor, writer, and storyteller who has worked extensively with BBC Radio, and is a founding member of The Embers Collective,...

Green Man Festival has announced the key speakers heading up the Talking Shop area when the gathering returns this August. One of a trio of headline guests, the BBC Radio 1 presenter Annie Nightingale will discuss her broadcasting career and how events have unfolded since being named the first female presenter on the station in 1970. Four decades in the job, Nightingale will reflect on the ever-changing industry with her inimitable mixture of irreverent humour and punk enthusiasm. Green Man’s...

Self-confessed "ugly" popstar ZAND has been announced to play at this year's Loud Women Fest. The one-day festival takes places at both The Dome and Boston Music Room in Tufnell Park on Saturday 15 September 2018. Speaking about the festival, ZAND says: "I'm so excited to be on the bill for a festival with such an important message, along with playing alongside some of the sickest female and non-binary punk bands about in music at the moment! Feminism is lit." Known online for speaking out...

Let me tell you about something that no readers in Britain, Ireland or Western Europe can possibly relate to unless they are either from one of the vast countries of other continents, or perchance have driven hundreds or thousands of miles through Canada, the US or similar lands that bear night horizons lit only by stars with no halo of a distant city’s light. To live in a vast country means that a drive to the next large city can...

Irvine Welsh will unveil the final instalment of his Trainspotting era range of booke - in which one of his characters will be killed off - at a biscuit factory. The author will join the Edinburgh International Book Festival and arts collective Neu! Reekie! at the former Crawford's biscuit factory in the Leith area of Edinburgh for the event. Fans of the series will be read an excerpt from Dead Men's Trousers - which sees the beloved characters Renton, Begbie,...

London soul quintet Mama's Gun are heading out on a week jaunt around the UK in June. The 4-date headline UK tour will start at The Jam House, Birmingham on June 21, 2018 and finish at the Omeara, London on June 29, 2018. The dates arrive as part of a wider world tour in support of the band’s forthcoming album,Golden Days which is due for release on May 18, 2018 via Candelion.  ‘You Make My Life A Better Place’ follows in the footsteps of the Lauren Laverne-supported...

A 'vegetarian' Masterchef judge has baffled viewers after she admitted she doesn't taste all the food she critiques - and "eats around" the meat. Guest judge Jackie Kearney appeared on the 2011 series of the BBC show and went out on the semi-finals, finishing fourth. The mum-of-two was the first vegetarian to get so far in the competition and, despite facing some anti-vegetarian backlash, many supported her food concoctions. Author and chef Jackie was invited back on the show as...