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'It's not boring s**t for old people': How Glastonbury is trying to get festivalgoers to use their vote
Revellers at Block9, Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival

'It's not boring s**t for old people': How Glastonbury is trying to get festivalgoers to use their vote

Overgrown lads should act their age – even at a Liam Gallagher gig
Liam Gallagher performing at the London leg of his Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary tour
Sam Delaney

Overgrown lads should act their age – even at a Liam Gallagher gig

Even though I have Down's syndrome, I know how to party. I'm the first and last on the dance floor
Down The Lens creators Emily and Sophie
Learning Disability Week 2024

Even though I have Down's syndrome, I know how to party. I'm the first and last on the dance floor

'No song written about football is actually any good': The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked
Euro 2024

'No song written about football is actually any good': The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked

Blue Note Records opens first ever Glasgow store as jazz festival fever hits town
Jazz performing
Glasgow International Jazz Festival

Blue Note Records opens first ever Glasgow store as jazz festival fever hits town

John Cale on The Velvet Underground, teaching Bowie the viola and why drugs aren't the creative stimulant
John Cale
Letter to my younger self

John Cale on The Velvet Underground, teaching Bowie the viola and why drugs aren't the creative stimulant

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited
Alex James and Damon Albarn in new documentary blur: To The End
Film

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited

'This country is run by idiots and fools': Paul Weller on politics, God and the state of everything
Paul Weller and Johnny Harris
Music

'This country is run by idiots and fools': Paul Weller on politics, God and the state of everything

This is what happens to a local economy when Taylor Swift comes to town
Music

This is what happens to a local economy when Taylor Swift comes to town

How the UK's jazz explosion led to a rebirth of cool
Ezra Collective after winning the 2023 Mercury Prize.
Music

How the UK's jazz explosion led to a rebirth of cool

Paul Weller: 'Keir Starmer's just a slightly softer version of the Tory party, isn't he?'
Paul Weller and Johnny Harris
Politics

Paul Weller: 'Keir Starmer's just a slightly softer version of the Tory party, isn't he?'

Washed Out music video controversy shows the hardest part is accepting AI is here to stay 
Washed Up video
Music

Washed Out music video controversy shows the hardest part is accepting AI is here to stay 

'Queer women aren't for the male gaze': Girli on queerness and why Tories 'don't give a s**t' about Gen Z
Music

'Queer women aren't for the male gaze': Girli on queerness and why Tories 'don't give a s**t' about Gen Z

Bikini Kill star and riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna: 'I was singing to my younger self on Bikini Kill's early songs'
Kathleen Hanna
Letter to my Younger Self

Bikini Kill star and riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna: 'I was singing to my younger self on Bikini Kill's early songs'

Beat the Streets music festival funds new homes for rough sleepers: 'If we could do more, we would'
Homelessness

Beat the Streets music festival funds new homes for rough sleepers: 'If we could do more, we would'

Bob Vylan: 'Is it OK for me to cry? As a man you can feel there's not space to be vulnerable'
Bob Vylan
Music

Bob Vylan: 'Is it OK for me to cry? As a man you can feel there's not space to be vulnerable'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'Whose voices have the right to be heard?': Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades
Theatre

'Whose voices have the right to be heard?': Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades

Soweto Kinch on ripping up the jazz rulebook and how his new BBC show is building community
Soweto Kinch
Music

Soweto Kinch on ripping up the jazz rulebook and how his new BBC show is building community

How the Northern Ballet's empty orchestra pit perfectly sums up UK's arts crisis 
Naomi Pohl

How the Northern Ballet's empty orchestra pit perfectly sums up UK's arts crisis 

“I knew I was miserable but to say I’d rather be dead? It hurts me that my younger self didn’t see a future.” Actor Liz Carr’s lightbulb moment that changed her life
Liz Carr
Press Release

“I knew I was miserable but to say I’d rather be dead? It hurts me that my younger self didn’t see a future.” Actor Liz Carr’s lightbulb moment that changed her life

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