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‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes

silverguide.site – Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full of glitter and silliness. They explain how it’s done…
‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes
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Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it

silverguide.site – To mark 50 years since the punk DIY publishing explosion, we want to compile a map of the UK’s contemporary zine scene…
Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it
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Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) review – Tyshawn Sorey’s meditations yield their mysteries slowly

silverguide.site – The Pulitzer-winner’s sprawling amalgam of Morton Feldman and African American spiritual felt meandering, but the GBSR duo, the BBC Singers and Ruth Gibson’s viola were luminous and charismatic…
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) review – Tyshawn Sorey’s meditations yield their mysteries slowly
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The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write

silverguide.site – Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played together decades later…
The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write
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Noise, blood and confetti: how Industrial Coast built a radical arts scene in ‘dark, deprived’ Middlesbrough

silverguide.site – The Teesside town struggles with drugs and social discord – but inspired by its magical light and mercurial artistic spirit, some say it has the best cultural scene in the UK…
Noise, blood and confetti: how Industrial Coast built a radical arts scene in ‘dark, deprived’ Middlesbrough
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Banned on Broadway, a new generation of music software is shrinking musical theatre orchestras

silverguide.site – Musicians are losing jobs, or stretched further in the gigs they can get, as KeyComp and other technologies replace human players in the pit…
Banned on Broadway, a new generation of music software is shrinking musical theatre orchestras
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Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94

silverguide.site – Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he ‘never’ tired of the music business…
Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94
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Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform

silverguide.site – Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell to Britons – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visible…
Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform
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Giulio Cesare review – nightmarish take on Handel has snakes, sadism and a mummy

silverguide.site – David Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pit…
Giulio Cesare review – nightmarish take on Handel has snakes, sadism and a mummy
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Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star

silverguide.site – In her first European jaunt outside of her headbanging band, the singer uses humour to turn angsty songs into rowdy collective catharsis…
Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star
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Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man

silverguide.site – Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard Sumner…
Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland review – Lewis Carroll’s familiar characters move in from the garden

silverguide.site – Alice gets a musical-theatre belter, the ‘Drink Me’ Bottle performs soprano acrobatics and the Caterpillar smokes his hookah like Audrey Hepburn…
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland review – Lewis Carroll’s familiar characters move in from the garden
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Signs of the Boss in John Crace’s sketch | Brief letters

silverguide.site – Brief letters: Bruce Springsteen | Lunch on the buses | Tram stops | Growing runner beans | Cryptic clue…
Signs of the Boss in John Crace’s sketch | Brief letters
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Das Rheingold review – a sure-footed feast as Alberich descends into madness

silverguide.site – With its aquatic opening, magic tricks and grand procession across a rainbow bridge, Charlie Edwards’s production manages to remain clear-sighted despite modest budgets…
Das Rheingold review – a sure-footed feast as Alberich descends into madness
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Gorillaz review – a staggering hi-tech mini-festival from the magpie mind of Damon Albarn

silverguide.site – A stream of high-profile guest stars included Johnny Marr, Little Simz, Shaun Ryder, Sparks, Yasiin Bey, Bootie Brown and Fatoumata Diawara…
Gorillaz review – a staggering hi-tech mini-festival from the magpie mind of Damon Albarn
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‘Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love makes you move your body’: Gloria Gaynor’s honest playlist

silverguide.site – The disco-pop great salutes the sexiness of Marvin Gaye and the spirituality of Amazing Grace. But which of her own hits does she sing at karaoke?…
‘Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love makes you move your body’: Gloria Gaynor’s honest playlist
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Il Ritorno d’Ulisse review – a sensuous slice of opulence and luxury

silverguide.site – Director John Caird and conductor Laurence Cummings bring Monteverdi back to the Chiltern Hills with polished, festive inclusivity…
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse review – a sensuous slice of opulence and luxury
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Add to playlist: the wild club-pop of Zara Larsson cowriter Helena Gao and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – The Chinese-Danish artist wrote nine 10ths of Larsson’s breakout album then got a Grammy nod. It’s a fine springboard for her own revelatory pop…
Add to playlist: the wild club-pop of Zara Larsson cowriter Helena Gao and the week’s best new tracks
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Ibeyi: Offering review

silverguide.site – Newly independent and proudly self-sufficient, Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz mix ancient lore with heavy bass, and harmonies with distortion, to incantatory effect…
Ibeyi: Offering review
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Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

silverguide.site – Lovano and his spirited quartet make his instrument glow in all its pliable eloquence, with rattling originals amid the Charlie Haden and Wayne Shorter covers…
Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
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