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Warning but Snoozebox remains upbeat
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Snoozebox is hoping the Silverstone Grand Prix and Glastonbury Festival will stop investors losing sleep over its profits, after the portable hotels company warned it would miss analysts' expectations for 2012.
How We Met: Dora Holzhandler and Nigel Kennedy
Sunday 14 April 2013
'She's been to our rehearsals. It doesn’t flummox her that it can get out of hand'
Can he beat 'Gangnam Style'? Psy unveils new single 'Gentleman' with the refrain 'I am a party mafia!'
Friday 12 April 2013
South Korean rapper Psy released his much-anticipated new single at midnight last night - and is hoping to repeat the success of its predecessor "Gangnam Style" which has made him the biggest star to emerge from the growing K-pop music scene.
Album: Schulhoff/Ullmann/Tausky, Lost Generation – ECO/Parry/Anton/Ryan (Gramola)
Saturday 06 April 2013
Of the generation of Czech composers who perished in the death camps, Erwin Schulhoff is the most enigmatic.
Album review: Rokia Traoré, Beautiful Africa (Nonesuch)
Friday 05 April 2013
The daughter of a Malian diplomat, Rokia Traoré is perhaps the most naturally cross-cultural of her country's abundant musical offspring, effortlessly blending styles and sounds as easily as she switches between languages.
Brazilian doctor Virginia Soares de Souza could be more prolific than Harold Shipman if it is proved she killed up to 300 patients to free up beds
Thursday 28 March 2013
De Souza is accused of masterminding a “gang of death” involving several members of her medical team
Kanye West, the rapper who would be God
Thursday 28 March 2013
It’s hard to say quite when Kanye West’s staggering confidence came into play. Was it receiving the first perfect 10.0 review from Pitchfork in a decade? The culmination of his 21 Grammy awards? Impregnating a Kardashian? Whatever it was, we’ve created a monster.
Stornoway, The Forum, London
Thursday 28 March 2013
Stornoway are a four-piece band from Oxford who, with two extra live players tonight, make uplifting folky-indie - although taking their name from a remote Scottish isle is apt given their evident love nature, of the most wind-swept, moon-lit variety.
Justin Timberlake knocks David Bowie off top of UK album chart
Monday 25 March 2013
Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience becomes fastest selling album of 2013
Album: Portico Quartet, Live/Remix (Real World)
Saturday 23 March 2013
Whether Portico Quartet ever were a jazz act is debatable, but they certainly don't sound like one now.
For Simon Cowell, TV is not enough: The impresario's endless star-seeking is going global, on YouTube
Sunday 17 March 2013
You might have thought Simon Cowell had rooted out enough talent from the bedrooms of Britain with his hit shows The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. But in his never-ending quest for the Next Big Thing, the pop impresario is launching a new "global audition", this time through the medium of YouTube.
Album: Suede, Bloodsports (Warner)
Saturday 16 March 2013
Well, what did you expect? A sad attempt to recapture former glories? You were half-right.
England captain Alastair Cook labelled a 'genius' by Brendon McCullum
Wednesday 13 March 2013
England play New Zealand in the second Test from tonight
Dundee duo caught LA on the hop
Sunday 10 March 2013
Rejected in London, two Scots posed as Californian rappers and ended up partying with Madonna
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- 2 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 3 Special Report: US troops are stationed in Japan to protect the nation. But to sex workers in Okinawa, they bring fear, not security
- 4 Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
- 5 Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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