"Have you been out enjoying the sunshine?" A question I have been asked relentlessly this week by very well-meaning publicists, to which the answer is NO. I have been locked inside working on the bane of my life, The Independent's annual festival guide. Do not message me about it, it is done, and you will get to see the culture team's picks of the best UK music festivals for 2025 this weekend. Other top picks include Felicity Martin's interview with singer Låpsley and, on Sunday, Annabel Nugent's chat with Myles Smith about his ongoing rise and new single "My First Heartbreak". I also spoke with the brilliant Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) about his new album Glory, avoidant tendencies, his tricky relationship with his own body, and Trump's attacks on LGBT+ rights. The Great Escape festival is just two weeks away now, which means it's about time we unveiled the support act for Skunk Anansie at The Independent's stage... it's indie-rock duo SpaceAcre, who you might remember as one of my spotlight acts a couple of months ago. They are smashing it right now, with new single "Pathogen" getting aired on BBC Radio 6 the other day and with their first UK headline tour taking place this summer. If you're in Brighton for TGE, get to the Old Market early so you don't miss them. Fave new music this week: Please do yourself a favour and check out Samantha Crain's new record Gumshoe, it's brilliant and buzzy. Jorja Smith is back in a big way on "The Way I Love You", while Kano and Wretch 32 sound goooood on "Home Sweet Home", from Wretch's fantastic album Home?, also out today. I adore Summer Walker on the unapologetic "Spend It", and AURORA amid the violin flurries and synth swirls of "Hearts Intuition". Irish band NewDad are also back with their Safe EP, sounding better than ever. Skunk Anansie sound fierce on "Animal", claws out baby. Have a wonderful long weekend everybody and ENJOY THE SUNSHINE x |
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Justin Bieber has issued a statement amid rampant rumors about his mental health and personal life. On Thursday, the "Baby" singer shared a lengthy message on Instagram about the "gossip" and "lies" about him. "The feeling of guilt can be relieved. How? Not by going to church or reading ur Bible. But just receive that God forgives," his post began. "They treat me like a** out here, but I remember that I am flawed and God forgave me." "It helps me to stop feeling better than those who are mean and hurtful because when I'm really honest, I can be mean and hurtful too," he continued. "My instinct is to be like, 'Damn I wouldn't gossip and spread lies about someone on the internet,' but there's other s*** I do I'm not proud of." He then touched on his marriage to Hailey Bieber and the divorce rumors that have been circulating for the last few months. "And honestly if I was you it would be hard not to be jealous if I saw me and Hailey going so brazzzzyy," the "Sorry" singer wrote. "It's really up for us and that's understandable why people can't stand it. I don't blame em." FULL STORY. |
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I've never had to kiss arse – I got here on merit |
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I'm the sexy sexagenarian. Then I'm gonna be the sexy septuagenarian, ha ha! |
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I was trying to marry my upbringing with the jazz hands with poetry, which was my true love, and that's being a singer-songwriter |
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Hello! Tell me about yourselves |
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We're Legss, a four-piece boy band from London and Liverpool. We make unnerving, dark guitar anthems for the cultural sink. After two years of writing new music, rediscovering who we are as a band and individuals, and Olympian levels of inactivity, we've just released our new single Gloss, which is our favourite song we've ever written and probably the best song ever written. |
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What are your inspirations and influences? |
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We're inspired by anything with honesty and raw appeal. Billie Holiday, Bill Ryder-Jones, Billy Elliot. All the Bills. As a band, we've been releasing music since 2019, so if anything we've spent a long time working to get to a point where we feel like outside influences aren't coming into our music. We only really want to be inspired by creating something which feels utterly natural to us as people and musicians. That's why our song structures are often a bit all over the place, none of us are classically trained and so if it sounds interesting and we're all happy that's all that matters. |
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What do you have lined up for 2025? |
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We might have finished our debut album and there might be more news on this coming soon, along with some more new music. We're also off on tour to some lesser-played places in late June: Leicester, Southampton, Ramsgate, Norwich and Sheffield. Other than that, we'll be gigging more, writing more, kissing more and dancing in the sun. 'Gloss' is out now - listen/stream here. |
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