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Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire

silverguide.site – Podcast by Adam Batty and BBC 6 Music DJ Afrodeutsche follows the leads to Leeds…
Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire
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‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers

silverguide.site – In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world’s most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four’s ‘far-out’ masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakthroughs…
‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers
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They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

silverguide.site – Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to survive…
They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?
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A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus

silverguide.site – Mark Elder and the BBC Symphony Orchestra make such an outstanding case for Delius’s setting of Nietzsche that its 37-year absence from the Proms is baffling…
A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus
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BBC says it delayed Ozzy Osbourne documentary at family’s request

silverguide.site – Broadcaster says family wants ‘to wait a bit longer’, after film about singer’s final years pulled from Monday’s listings…
BBC says it delayed Ozzy Osbourne documentary at family’s request
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Coldplay review – after 12m tickets sold, this tour is still a mindblowing spectacle

silverguide.site – They may be as cloyingly earnest as ever, but even amid an overwhelming production full of fireworks and lovehearts, Chris Martin and co are in total control…
Coldplay review – after 12m tickets sold, this tour is still a mindblowing spectacle
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Le Concert Spirituel review – a sumptuous musical journey to late Renaissance Florence

silverguide.site – Striggio’s mass, lost for 400 years, was the centrepiece of this imaginative concert of 16th- and 17th-century music that possibly worked best for radio listeners…
Le Concert Spirituel review – a sumptuous musical journey to late Renaissance Florence
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Green Man festival review – Kneecap and CMAT lead the charge in a utopian Welsh idyll

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

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

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

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

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

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’?

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’

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

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

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)

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

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

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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