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Charli XCX electrifies Reading Festival with era-spanning set
The British singer and Irish rock band Fontaines DC both headlined the first night of Reading for 2026.
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Charli xcx, Reading Festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it
WorldPingReading Festival There’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore “Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said, accurately foreshadowing Charli xcx’s only UK fe…
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The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey review – time stands still at 3.43am in fringe fairytale
Summerhall, Edinburgh Angele and Malcolm Galea’s two-hander cycles through grief and sorrow as a broken-hearted hero is trapped in purgatory A fairytale plunges the reader into a dilemma then resolves it. But what if the happy ending never arrives?
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From Dalliance to Billy Strings: the week in rave reviews
Hugo Weaving leads a delightful drama about the trials and tribulations of a bunch of friends of a certain age, and the bluegrass wunderkind returns with a remarkable new album Continue reading...
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Sara Bareilles Sings About Loss — and It’s Our Gain — in the Beautifully Bittersweet ‘Good Grief’: Album Review
Well, just how good can grief be?
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How 'Book Queen' Dolly Parton inspired millions of children with gift of reading
Families across the globe share how free books from Parton's Imagination Library helped their children.
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Women’s Super League 2026-27 preview No 8: Everton
Toffees new-look attack will hope to gel during their relatively easy start to the campaign in their second season at the historic Goodison Park Guardian writers’ predicted position: 10th (NB: this is not necessarily Tom Garry’s prediction but the av…
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