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Easing the pressure of getting concert selfies | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Robert Frazer and James Taylor respond to an article by Jason Okundaye on phone-filming at gigs…
Easing the pressure of getting concert selfies | Letters
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Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell: has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?

silverguide.site – She managed tours for Queen and Led Zeppelin and was at George Harrison’s house when the Beatles split – but O’Dell is most proud of her legacy as a woman in a macho industry…
Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell: has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?
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Jonny Greenwood and Israeli musician Dudu Tassa condemn ‘silencing’ after UK concerts pulled

silverguide.site – After two performances were cancelled over threats linked to protests against Israel, the duo said the actions were ‘self-evidently a method of censorship’…
Jonny Greenwood and Israeli musician Dudu Tassa condemn ‘silencing’ after UK concerts pulled
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Paul Kelly’s Post at 40: the album in which a future star found his voice

silverguide.site – It was the launchpad for everything that followed, but the singer-songwriter’s 1985 record – made on the smell of an oily rag, when he was down and out – almost didn’t happen…
Paul Kelly’s Post at 40: the album in which a future star found his voice
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‘It’s a northern sound, it gives you hope that it can happen to you’: how bassline bounced back

silverguide.site – Once maligned as a scene marred by violence, bassline is booming once again thanks to pioneers such as Big Ang, Jamie Duggan and a T2 track that changed everything…
‘It’s a northern sound, it gives you hope that it can happen to you’: how bassline bounced back
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The Excursions of Mr Brouček review – Simon Rattle embraces Janáček’s baffling but beautiful opera

silverguide.site – Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra’s survey of Janáček’s operas arrives at the zany Mr Brouček. With Peter Hoare in the lead role and the likes of Lucy Crowe and Aleš Briscein, the performances could not be bettered…
The Excursions of Mr Brouček review – Simon Rattle embraces Janáček’s baffling but beautiful opera
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BBCNOW/MacMillan/Childs review – James MacMillan’s nostalgic celebration of the euphonium

silverguide.site – The composer conducted his new work Where the Lugar Meets the Glaisnock, beautifully played by the virtuosic David Childs…
BBCNOW/MacMillan/Childs review – James MacMillan’s nostalgic celebration of the euphonium
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‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers

silverguide.site – From Gene Simmons discussing lowgrade meatballs to Shaun Ryder comparing himself to Uncle Fester, Kate Mossman has spent her life interviewing rock stars of a certain age. What has she learned?…
‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers
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Barbara Underwood obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Jazz vocalist and singing teacher who got the academic bug later in life…
Barbara Underwood obituary
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How Gordi went from doctor to musician, and back again: ‘In the hospital, you have to learn how to disassociate’

silverguide.site – Sophie Payten kept her two lives separate until the pandemic; on her third album, they come together. She talks about her friendship with a dying patient and making Chris Martin cry…
How Gordi went from doctor to musician, and back again: ‘In the hospital, you have to learn how to disassociate’
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‘Like a religious thing’: free Lady Gaga concert draws 2.1m to Rio

silverguide.site – Fans poured on to Copacabana beach from around Brazil for show that beat Madonna’s record audience size…
‘Like a religious thing’: free Lady Gaga concert draws 2.1m to Rio
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Lewis Capaldi makes surprise return to live performance at charity gig

silverguide.site – The Scottish musician breaks health-related hiatus with gig in support of the suicide prevention charity Calm…
Lewis Capaldi makes surprise return to live performance at charity gig
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Post your questions for folk music legend Peggy Seeger

silverguide.site – As she marks her 90th birthday with a UK tour and new album, the singer and activist will answer your questions…
Post your questions for folk music legend Peggy Seeger
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Pimpinone review – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed Telemann

silverguide.site – Isabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own time…
Pimpinone review – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed Telemann
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‘Everything we built – gone’: how the wildfires decimated LA’s music scene

silverguide.site – January’s blazes in California have devastated the livelihoods of performers, technicians and other music industry pros. They reveal what they lost – and how they’re rebuilding…
‘Everything we built – gone’: how the wildfires decimated LA’s music scene
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‘I was the only person who didn’t know the words to Coldplay’: Anoushka Shankar’s honest playlist

silverguide.site – The musician on her love of cheesy R&B, hating karaoke ‘with a fiery passion’, and the people who have sex to her sister Norah Jones’s music…
‘I was the only person who didn’t know the words to Coldplay’: Anoushka Shankar’s honest playlist
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Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’

silverguide.site – The genre-bending cult singer is the subject of an offbeat new documentary where he invites people into a long life filled with ups, downs and LSD…
Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’
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Exhibition of original Bob Dylan paintings to open in London

silverguide.site – Point Blank, a collection of 97 paintings of ‘emotional resonance’ by the singer-songwriter, will open at the Halcyon Gallery in May…
Exhibition of original Bob Dylan paintings to open in London
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‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank

silverguide.site – A school fire, a shooting and mental health issues plagued a man whose legacy is remembered in a new documentary…
‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank
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Britten Sinfonia/Sinfonia Smith Square review – quiet fervour and formal grace

silverguide.site – Conducting duties were shared between Nicholas Daniel and Benjamin Nicholas in a sombre and moving programme whose main work was Messiaen’s great memorial to the dead of both world wars…
Britten Sinfonia/Sinfonia Smith Square review – quiet fervour and formal grace
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