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Green Man festival review – Kneecap and CMAT lead the charge in a utopian Welsh idyll

www.silverguide.site – Progressive, independent and more sonically diverse than ever, the Brecon Beacons festival offered sterling sets from MJ Lenderman to Mike, Jasmine.4.t to Joshua Idehen…
Green Man festival review – Kneecap and CMAT lead the charge in a utopian Welsh idyll
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BBCNOW/Bancroft/Grosvenor review – from the brilliantly bonkers to heavyweight Shostakovich

www.silverguide.site – Sofia Gubaidulina’s Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band was an eccentric and joyful delight and Benjamin Grosvenor dazzled in Ravel’s bluesy Piano Concerto in this BBC National Orchestra of Wales prom…
BBCNOW/Bancroft/Grosvenor review – from the brilliantly bonkers to heavyweight Shostakovich
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What happened to Alex Lloyd? His Australian Story episode is a tremendous act of bravery

www.silverguide.site – Celebrity culture remains frighteningly inhumane, but the episode about the singer of the 2001 elegiac hit Amazing is a heartening reminder of how far we’ve come since the 2000s…
What happened to Alex Lloyd? His Australian Story episode is a tremendous act of bravery
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Sault review – GCSE-level drama performance borders on the pretentious

www.silverguide.site – Standout moments included Chronixx captivating on stage, Yasiin Bey delivering a seamless guest verse and Cleo Sol’s ethereal appearance – but the theatrics felt alienating…
Sault review – GCSE-level drama performance borders on the pretentious
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Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – high impact and high intensity as Shostakovich’s fifth is brought to life

www.silverguide.site – A blistering performance of Shostakovich’s fifth symphony was preceded by a virtuosic and spectacular dramatic exploration the work that, however, could have had more bite…
Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – high impact and high intensity as Shostakovich’s fifth is brought to life
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‘I can no longer listen to the punk bands I loved as a teenager’: Rob Newman’s honest playlist

www.silverguide.site – The comic struggles to listen to the punk bands of his youth, while his son sings along to the Blue Nile. But which Smiths song caused his girlfriend to dump him?…
‘I can no longer listen to the punk bands I loved as a teenager’: Rob Newman’s honest playlist
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The Miami Showband massacre: what led to the killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’?

www.silverguide.site – The band were as big as it got, topping the Irish singles chart seven times. Then they were stopped at a bogus checkpoint in County Down – and three were shot dead. Fifty years on, survivor Des Lee looks back on that terrible night…
The Miami Showband massacre: what led to the killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’?
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Lucinda Williams: ‘My singing is better now than it was before my stroke’

www.silverguide.site – The US singer-songwriter on whether she will pull her music from Spotify, her worst first date and why ‘being unique and original doesn’t always work in the record business’…
Lucinda Williams: ‘My singing is better now than it was before my stroke’
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‘I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic’: Jade Thirlwall on anorexia, protest in pop and life after Little Mix

www.silverguide.site – As part of the hugely successful girlband, she had to contend with an eating disorder, racism and a hostile tabloid press. Now JADE the solo artist is conquering the charts with her unorthodox pop bangers and unfiltered attitude…
‘I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic’: Jade Thirlwall on anorexia, protest in pop and life after Little Mix
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Monastic music that survived Henry VIII’s dissolution brought back to life

www.silverguide.site – Buckland Abbey recreates music telling of medieval life in extraordinary discovery…
Monastic music that survived Henry VIII’s dissolution brought back to life
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Tim Dowling: it’s time to name our band’s new album, and there are no bad ideas (in theory at least)

www.silverguide.site – For the final flourish on our latest record, we’ve wheeled in a harmonium. If only I knew how to play it ……
Tim Dowling: it’s time to name our band’s new album, and there are no bad ideas (in theory at least)
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Book of Mountains and Seas review – puppets and percussion, Mandarin and a monkish chorus

www.silverguide.site – Visually arresting moments in lanterns and silk, and Huang Ruo’s haunting soundscapes, bring to life ancient Chinese creation myths in Basil Twist’s production…
Book of Mountains and Seas review – puppets and percussion, Mandarin and a monkish chorus
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Hisaishi review – frothing strings and quacking brass as Studio Ghibli’s composer debuts

www.silverguide.site – Switching between podium and piano, Joe Hisaishi’s suite from The Boy and the Heron sparked joy, but Reich’s demanding Desert Music was vibrant and hypnotic…
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Hisaishi review – frothing strings and quacking brass as Studio Ghibli’s composer debuts
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Yingtuitive’s dream-logic electronics plus the week’s best tracks

www.silverguide.site – The Singapore-raised, London-based producer captures the poignancy of living restlessly on her luminous debut album…
Yingtuitive’s dream-logic electronics plus the week’s best tracks
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Universal deny that head Lucian Grainge was personally involved in Kendrick Lamar attack on Drake

www.silverguide.site – UMG have called for Drake’s motion to include Grainge’s communications on the matter to be denied, calling it ‘so strained’ as to ‘defy credulity’…
Universal deny that head Lucian Grainge was personally involved in Kendrick Lamar attack on Drake
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‘The Black experience is more than just London’: Chiedu Oraka, the Hull rapper handpicked to support Coldplay

www.silverguide.site – When Chris Martin called, the MC saw an opportunity to rep his city, pursue his goal of being rap’s next ‘king of the north’ – and expand perceptions of Black British identity…
‘The Black experience is more than just London’: Chiedu Oraka, the Hull rapper handpicked to support Coldplay
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Benedicte Maurseth: Mirra review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

www.silverguide.site – Rhythmic repetitions and rustling textures evoke the traditional music and ecological harmony of Maurseth’s native Norway…
Benedicte Maurseth: Mirra review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month
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Rise Against: Ricochet review – slick shift doesn’t skimp on righteous anger

www.silverguide.site – Blood-and-guts emotion with the energy of the punk veterans’ early years meets high-sheen recording craft in a hulking 10th album…
Rise Against: Ricochet review – slick shift doesn’t skimp on righteous anger
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‘I tried to be nice. Sometimes I would explode’: John Fogerty on Creedence, contracts and control

www.silverguide.site – As the driving force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, he wrote some of the 60s’ most enduring songs. But a poor record deal followed by years in the wilderness drove him to the brink of breakdown. Now 80, he looks back…
‘I tried to be nice. Sometimes I would explode’: John Fogerty on Creedence, contracts and control
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BBCSO/Ollikainen review – Stravinsky’s sacrificial dance had serrated edges

www.silverguide.site – An exhilarating Rite of Spring and a cool-as-ice Bolero were high points in a Prom that also included the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous Cello Concerto…
BBCSO/Ollikainen review – Stravinsky’s sacrificial dance had serrated edges
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