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BEACONSFIELD ROAD, BRIGHTON

In the living room of his garden flat in North London, Glenn Gregory has come to a decision. Sat at his coffee table, Martyn Ware with his feet up on a recliner next to him, Heaven 17’s singer leans i

Discoballs! Foxes! Monsters! Babymetal, their guests, and a Harvard music lecturer break down every track on new album Metal Forth

It’s worth remembering that The Cure’s previous remix album, 1990’s Mixed Up, was made as a palette cleanser after the intense gloom of Disintegration, acting essentially as a bit of froth to get some

...by the news that Piers Morgan has just been voted the UK’s sexiest man(!), knocking Jeremy Clarkson off the top spot after the farmer’s two previous wins. In the Illicit Encounters annual poll of 2