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Bay City Rollers star Alan Longmuir was laid to rest at Allan Church in Bannockburn, Stirling today.

Ahead of her headline show at Somerset House this evening, yesterday Sigrid celebrated the release of her new EP Raw by  treating lucky fans to an intimate acoustic performance at hmv’s flagship Oxford Street 363 store. The release of Raw cements what can only be described as a stellar year for one of music’s most exciting emerging talents. From winning the BBC Sound of 2018, to storming the stage at Coachella and playing on Jimmy Fallon, to moving Helen Mirren on the Graham Norton Show, and reaching the top 10 in the...

Green Day's American Idiot has moved into the top 20 in the UK charts ahead of Donald Trump's visit to the country this week. The President is set to arrive in London on Thursday and will be welcomed with hostile crowds and a Trump baby blimp in the skies. But protesters look to have gone one step further by launching a concerted campaign to get American Idiot to the top of the music charts. Through a combination of purchases and streams,...

The Jungle’s an urgent political immersive monumental piece of theatre set in an Afghan restaurant deep inside the Calais refugee camp, which was bulldozed to the ground by the French authorities in 2016. It’s a hypnotic play. Part documentary, part fiction, part activist, it gives voice to the stories of the refugees and to the reflections of the playwrights Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy, who themselves the cracks in the pavement where cultural shifts happen, the “theatre of hope” to...

Cast members from the award winning TV series The Handmaid's Tale are raising awareness about violence against women and girls by joining forces with women's rights group Equality Now to share real-life stories that eerily reflect plotlines from the show. In a two-minute film, cast members including Joseph Fiennes, Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer and Ann Dowd, and lead production crew share the words of women and girls describing personal experiences of rape, sex trafficking and female genital mutilation. "This is not...

Mayor Marvin Rees confirmed Banksy had offered his support

I’m going to say it. It's needlessly convoluted but I like the word and I want to use it. Look at our latest playlist and tell me June wasn’t the most dichotomous month on the 2018 release calendar so far? We’ve got truly world-class atmospheric, experimental jazz rubbing shoulders with some nu-metal/jump-cut metalcore crossover. We’ve got sultry makeout RnB sharing breaths with prime happy hardcore sleaze. It’s a high tech, low life, kind of feeling, June, I’ll give you that....

Venue: The Lexington, Islington Date: 22.6.18 Support, Fresh, itoldyouiwoudeatyou, Conjurer Photos: Graham Berry (@BlkTPhotography) Words: Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) They should have booked a bigger venue. For weeks the date has been looming; and odd clash of scenes and styles. When Nervus first announced they would be putting on this show – along with the pop punk of Fresh, the neo-emo of itoldyouiwouldeatyou, and the metal shred of Conjurer – it felt like a subversive move. This feels like a line-up...

Venue: Heaven, London Date: 19.6.18 Photos: Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Anna Calvi is a true talent. As a performer, Calvi utterly dominates the stage (a formidable feat given the double-stage set-up at Heaven tonight). As a musician, the execution of her range-exploring songs is flawless. Ah oh, the shred. While a runway into the crowd can feel like a self-indulgence, a posing ramp for an inflated ego, Calvi maximises its impact. This truly is a solo strut, jutting into the crowd,...