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Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat
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Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat

Great Park, Irvine, CaliforniaPerformances from Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and Sarah McLachlan raise $20m for charity yet are marred by poor planning for heatwaveShortly after singing the cl...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
Lola Young surprises Reading Festival with final day set
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Lola Young surprises Reading Festival with final day set

The singer has been slowly returning to performing after taking a break last year to "work on myself".

BBC Entertainment & Arts4 weeks ago
The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues
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The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues

OVO Hydro, GlasgowThe Nashville singer-songwriter is among the guests joining Mike Scott for a sprawling, exuberant revue that finds new life in the Waterboys’ rootsy pastThis is strange. A Waterboys...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
Women in UK arts feel they do not have equal opportunities for roles, says report
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Women in UK arts feel they do not have equal opportunities for roles, says report

Exclusive: Research says sector is fixated with young talent, with most women experiencing unconscious bias or sexismWomen working in the arts believe they do not have equal opportunities for roles, e...

The Guardian - UK News4 weeks ago
‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist
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‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist

The Black Bananas singer knows all the words to Rapper’s Delight and relates to AC/DC, but which song reminds her of a heartbreaking theft?The first song I fell in love with Van Halen’s Runnin’ With...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
'Emo might have been a phase to some, but not for us'
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'Emo might have been a phase to some, but not for us'

Sophie Baxter has set up a social group for "emos, goths and moshers" who never left the noughties.

BBC Entertainment & Arts4 weeks ago
Stetsons and waterproofs at a very English country music festival
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Stetsons and waterproofs at a very English country music festival

Country music fans use the Long Road festival in Leicestershire to mark the passing of Dolly Parton Continue reading...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026
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Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026

Nominated in three previous years, the rambunctious standup – one half of The Delightful Sausage – wins the prize for his show Rewilding while Marty Gleeson is named best newcomerThe annual Edinburgh...

The Guardian - UK News4 weeks ago
Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library
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Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based projectThe next manuscript by the American artist Laurie Anderson will remain unseen for 88 years, as...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
Charli xcx, Reading festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it
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Charli xcx, Reading festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it

Reading festivalThere’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore“Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said,...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham
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‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham

Country star came to South Yorkshire town in 2007 for UK launch of the Imagination Library, her book donation schemeShane Jarman was up a ladder decorating a Christmas tree at the school where he was...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @
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‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @

Their un-Googlable, very online name is the antithesis of this earthy duo’s sublime art-folk. Like their emotionally ambiguous music, the pair don’t give up their mysteries easily• The best music of a...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
The best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more
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The best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more

Irish noisemongers Gilla Band, shadowy producers Two Shell and lovable band the Big Moon have new records, and there are tours from Bob Dylan and Kelela – plus the best of jazz, global and classical •...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Dolly Parton's dad couldn't read - it inspired her to send books to millions of children
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Dolly Parton's dad couldn't read - it inspired her to send books to millions of children

Families across the globe share how free books from Parton's Imagination Library helped their children.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Charli XCX electrifies Reading Festival with era-spanning set
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Charli XCX electrifies Reading Festival with era-spanning set

The British singer and Irish rock band Fontaines DC both headlined the first night of Reading for 2026.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
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London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership

Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firmThe London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what ha...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
Paul Heaton scores first number one album as Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 finally reaches top 40
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Paul Heaton scores first number one album as Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 finally reaches top 40

Heaton's solo album tops the chart, while Parton's 1980 US hit reaches the UK top 40 at last.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?
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Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?

As R&L replace the BBC’s unsigned artists stage with one filled with rock scions and a Simon Cowell boyband, many are decrying disappearing opportunities for grassroots actsThis year’s Reading and Lee...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
TalkTV under fire for not disclosing reporter’s ties to Reform UK in Channel crossing film
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TalkTV under fire for not disclosing reporter’s ties to Reform UK in Channel crossing film

Christian Drogan’s Invading Britain shows former builder turned journalist trying to travel from France to England in small boatRupert Murdoch’s online channel TalkTV is facing criticism after it did...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
Celebrity Hunted showed I can achieve anything after cancer, Amy Dowden says
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Celebrity Hunted showed I can achieve anything after cancer, Amy Dowden says

The Strictly Come Dancing star appeared on the latest series of the Channel 4 challenge show.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago