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'The UK will win Eurovision' and more predictions for music in 2023
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the year ahead

'The UK will win Eurovision' and more predictions for music in 2023

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highlights

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Music

Wet Leg: 'It makes me proud to be fighting the good fight'

Hints of Scrooge at the Arts Council of England
Robert Bathurst and George Maguire
Music

Hints of Scrooge at the Arts Council of England

Christmas albums 2022: Who's a shooting star and who delivered a turkey?
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Festive tunes

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Lewis Capaldi: 'It's nice to celebrate being in love'
Lewis Capaldi
Music

Lewis Capaldi: 'It's nice to celebrate being in love'

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Lawrence from Felt
Music

Felt legend Lawrence: 'I want to just see what fame's like'

Lewis Capaldi is hoping his new single Pointless will be played at weddings
Lewis Capaldi
Music

Lewis Capaldi is hoping his new single Pointless will be played at weddings

Twitter thinks Keith Richards is the first man ever created after a viral joke
Keith Richards
Viral

Twitter thinks Keith Richards is the first man ever created after a viral joke

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Robert Smith on the stairs at Westside Studios. Photo: Tom Sheehan
Music

'Robert Smith isn’t people’s perceptions': Stories behind classic photos of The Cure

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Interview

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English National Opera cuts speak of a deeper problem
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funding

English National Opera cuts speak of a deeper problem

Wilko Johnson 'inspired a generation to do something different with their guitars'
Wilko Johnson with Alex Kapranos
in memory

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Wilko Johnson: 'I believed I was going to die – then started to feel alive'
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Voices of Bishara takes British jazz in an innovative new direction
Tom Skinner
interview

Voices of Bishara takes British jazz in an innovative new direction

Pattie Boyd: 'I was with The Beatles and everything was fabulous'
Pattie Boyd
Swinging Sixties

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Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
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Ezra Furman
anti-corporate

Ezra Furman: 'All my music is protest music'

How can you be as happy as Sam Ryder? Start with gratitude, sleep and vegetables
Sam Ryder, Eurovision hero
Eurovision

How can you be as happy as Sam Ryder? Start with gratitude, sleep and vegetables

English National Opera is in a fight for its life
Jolyon Loy and Anne Marie Stanley
Music

English National Opera is in a fight for its life

Luke Evans on beating bullies, duetting with Nicole Kidman and the perfect Christmas song
Luke Evans
getting festive

Luke Evans on beating bullies, duetting with Nicole Kidman and the perfect Christmas song

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