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Pass the pit diapers! Why are fans wetting themselves to stand front row at concerts?

silverguide.site – Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan and Morgan Wallen have all dealt with audience effluence in recent weeks – but that’s only one part of a fearsome subculture that has built up around fandom, endurance and ‘getting barrier’…
Pass the pit diapers! Why are fans wetting themselves to stand front row at concerts?
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BBCPhil/Noseda/Selaocoe review – a proms concert that was everything the festival does best

silverguide.site – A programme – Bach, Beethoven and a Jessie Montgomery premiere – that looked odd on paper made perfect sense in the hall, with Abel Selaocoe a mesmerising soloist in Montgomery’s ‘These Righteous Paths’…
BBCPhil/Noseda/Selaocoe review – a proms concert that was everything the festival does best
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‘His chords are like sheets of diamond ice’: the beguiling psych-folk of late cult songwriter Ed Askew

silverguide.site – The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes. Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance…
‘His chords are like sheets of diamond ice’: the beguiling psych-folk of late cult songwriter Ed Askew
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Ariadne auf Naxos review – Laurent Pelly’s staging has plenty of wit but lacks weight

silverguide.site – The director hits perfectly all the comic marks of Strauss’s opera about an opera, but there’s few insights in a work that should be moving as well as frothy and fun.…
Ariadne auf Naxos review – Laurent Pelly’s staging has plenty of wit but lacks weight
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Spanish National Orchestra/Afkham review – Proms debut sees orchestra’s celebrations kick off early

silverguide.site – Outgoing chief conductor David Afkham brought Spanish repertoire, castanets and a certain team’s football scarf in a programme heavy with national treasures…
Spanish National Orchestra/Afkham review – Proms debut sees orchestra’s celebrations kick off early
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Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain review – rootsy revival strays from the dirt track to the middle of the road

silverguide.site – The country legend’s seventh album revisits her troubled early life but plays it safe with zany humour and fluffy songs about young love…
Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain review – rootsy revival strays from the dirt track to the middle of the road
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Amy Shark, stripped back: ‘Everyone thinks being famous is amazing, and it’s not. It’s quite ugly’

silverguide.site – Ten years after Adore sparked a major-label bidding war, the Gold Coast singer’s fourth album ditches the pop production and the drums – and delivers the best work of her career…
Amy Shark, stripped back: ‘Everyone thinks being famous is amazing, and it’s not. It’s quite ugly’
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‘We were in danger of running it into the ground’: Brittany Howard on fleeing fame, fighting Trump and the epic return of Alabama Shakes

silverguide.site – The soul-rockers achieved worldwide success before surprising everyone by deciding to quit while they were ahead. Now they’re back with a new album railing against the state of contemporary America…
‘We were in danger of running it into the ground’: Brittany Howard on fleeing fame, fighting Trump and the epic return of Alabama Shakes
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‘People say they’ve conceived to my music’: Tricky’s honest playlist

silverguide.site – The trip-hop star doesn’t believe in getting jiggy to songs and would choose Cyndi Lauper at karaoke. But which classic reminds him of his mum?…
‘People say they’ve conceived to my music’: Tricky’s honest playlist
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First Night of the Proms review – 250th anniversary of US independence takes centre stage

silverguide.site – From Copland to Gershwin and a new Emily Dickinson-based commission it was America’s evening – although Jerusalem did get an outing…
First Night of the Proms review – 250th anniversary of US independence takes centre stage
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Jill Scott review – joyous phones-free show is a taste of how all concerts should be

silverguide.site – The queen of Philly soul is on phenomenal form in a saucy and effortlessly virtuosic show celebrating 26 years in music…
Jill Scott review – joyous phones-free show is a taste of how all concerts should be
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Amadigi di Gaula review – inflatables and appoggiaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island

silverguide.site – Olivia Fuchs’ delirious spin on the baroque opera comes with TV trickery, more hearts than a cardiologist convention and absolutely gorgeous singing…
Amadigi di Gaula review – inflatables and appoggiaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island
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Add to playlist: the nervy breakbeats and acid delirium of Silverwingkiller and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – The industrial dance duo make music for this summer’s heatwave: filled with dread and jangling with pent-up energy…
Add to playlist: the nervy breakbeats and acid delirium of Silverwingkiller and the week’s best new tracks
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Norma Winstone and NDR Radio Orchestra: A Timeless Place review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

silverguide.site – The emotive lyricist and surefooted improvisor sounds lustrous in a 1990 recording featuring an exquisite I Loves You Porgy…
Norma Winstone and NDR Radio Orchestra: A Timeless Place review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
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Loathe: A Stranger to You review

silverguide.site – Granite-hard riffola collides with balm-like electronics and tinkling jazz piano in a thrilling fourth album of musical metamorphosis…
Loathe: A Stranger to You review
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Barry Dransfield obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Accomplished fiddle player whose folk recordings of the early 1970s are still much sought after…
Barry Dransfield obituary
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La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina review – 17th-century rarity is fun when it forgets to be earnest

silverguide.site – Francesca Caccini’s 1625 work – the earliest surviving opera by a woman – is wildly imaginative, even without the original horse ballet…
La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina review – 17th-century rarity is fun when it forgets to be earnest
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Pergolesi: L’Olimpiade album review

silverguide.site – Recorded from a live performance in an 18th-century theatre in Jesi – Pergolesi’s hometown – this is a brain-addling tale of love triangles and long-lost twins set in the ancient Olympics…
Pergolesi: L’Olimpiade album review
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Hits don’t lie! Shakira’s 20 best songs, from World Cup anthems to megastar duets – ranked!

silverguide.site – As the Colombian pop supremo prepares to perform at Sunday’s final, we rate her greatest work, including gossipy takedowns and lycanthropic lyrics…
Hits don’t lie! Shakira’s 20 best songs, from World Cup anthems to megastar duets – ranked!
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Nia Archives: Emotional Junglist review | Aimee Cliff's album of the week

silverguide.site – On the Bradford-born producer’s self-assured second album, drum’n’bass rhythms power up angsty odes with shades of Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash and myriad genres…
Nia Archives: Emotional Junglist review | Aimee Cliff's album of the week
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