There’s a good chance Florence Welch will end up owning this year’s Glastonbury – both on and off stage. The frontwoman, whose band has stepped in to headline in place of the Foo Fighters, loves the festival and admits she always overindulges. She said: “When I turned up on the Thursday last time, I wasn’t […]

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Kanye West is one of the most controversial Glastonbury bookings ever. More than 133,000 signatures are on a petition to say he shouldn’t be headlining on Saturday, and death threats were sent to festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, who have rightly stuck to their guns. The mind boggles that the man behind the petition, Neil Lonsdale, […]

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It isn’t long until we’ll be sipping beer and stomping all over Glastonbury, so we’ve agonised over the line-up and picked our chosen acts. With 10 stages and more than 1000 artists booked for Worthy Farm, it was no easy task. Caribou, Chemical Brothers, Patti Smith and Kanye West are a few of our first […]

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Entourage might begin and end with Piers Morgan, but try not to let that put you off. Like the hit HBO series, which ran from 2004 to 2011, the film is packed with cameos, cars, women and plenty of in-jokes.  Jeremy Piven plays Ari gold, a bolshy, highly-strung film agent who’s basically a flashier, perma-tanned […]

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Radiohead “are progressing” with their new album, but bear with them, it’s taking a while. The hitmakers are twiddling the knobs in the studio working on their ninth album – the follow-up to 2011’s King of Limbs – but guitarist Jonny Greenwood admits they were apart for so long, it took a while to get […]

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Introducing MATT BERRY! Were you a fan of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, loved The IT Crowd and never miss an episode of Toast Of London? Maybe Berry’s parody anthropological shorts for BBC iPlayer brighten up your day or you love surreal sitcom House Of Fools, starring Berry, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Morgana. However you know Matt […]

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Jimmy Page has just completed an epic remastering, but told JOE he is now planning a “guitar project” – after a little rest. We were invited to an exclusive playback of unheard Led Zeppelin material hosted by Page at Olympic Studios in West London, in the same room in which the band recorded their first […]

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Did anyone happen to see a red-headed woman running away from Dave Grohl in Sweden? Because Florence + the Machine have got the call-up to replace Foo Fighters as the Glastonbury headliner. While Dave Grohl rests his bolted broken leg after falling from a stage in Sweden (before carrying on singing as a cast is […]

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Frenzied and frenetic, new Foals tune What Went Down is the most visceral song from the band so far – and we love it. The Oxfordshire five-piece are back with their fourth album, also called What Went Down. Their latest effort is produced by James Ford, who boasts Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine, Jessie […]

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If, like us, you are apoplectic about the shocking Game Of Thrones finale, at least we can get our Kit Harington fix elsewhere. The actor, famous for playing Jon Snow in the HBO series, landed a lead role in film Spooks: The Greater Good, although he has revealed we almost lost him there too. Harington, 28, […]

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Fleetwood Mac saw the cheque (rumoured to be close to £1million) and came and conquered at the Isle Of Wight festival. They’ve been releasing hits for 47 years but their headline performance on Sunday night was nothing short of magical. Go Your Own way encore, phenomenal #IOW2015 https://t.co/yasB84GHcC — JOE (@JOE_co_uk) June 14, 2015 It’s […]

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A pumped Damon Albarn greeted the Isle Of Wight crowd “Are you ready? Are you ready!” as Blur played their first festival in six long years. “It’s the first time we’ve ever come here, nice to meet you all!” called the frontman to cheering fans. The band kicked off with songs Lonesome Street and Go Out from their […]

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It didn’t matter about the sun going down on the Isle Of Wight as Pharrell Williams kept the crowd warm on Saturday night. Giving the fans exactly what they wanted, the singer wasted no time throwing out his hits, including a few tunes belonging to his mates. An N.E.R.D medley followed by a cover of Nelly’s […]

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The Isle Of Wight festival is the last British gig Jimi Hendrix played before he died in 1970, so of course it’s only right to name the stage after him. During Saturday’s world record attempt to achieve the highest number of people wearing masks in the same place, it was announced that the main stage has […]

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For the first time in a long while, it doesn’t feel like a chore to be making the pilgrimage to the Isle Of Wight festival. Headlined by The Prodigy, Blur and Fleetwood Mac, it’s the best line-up in years. Pop the weather forecast on top and it might be close to restoring IoW’s former ‘Europe’s equivalent to […]

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Slipknot’s Corey Taylor is a brave man – he has just p****d off millions of Swifties and Directioners. The frontman tore strips out of Taylor Swift and One Direction before admitting he had no clue about the launch of Apple Music saying he can’t keep up with “f***ing technology.” Annoyed by artists who let their […]

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If you are lucky enough to have tickets for Blur at Barrowlands in Glasgow tonight, or Blackpool tomorrow, or Llandudno on Thursday, you could get your mitts on an exclusive comic book. The 24-page graphic novel, called Travel To Hong Kong With Blur, is described as a “visual accompaniment” to their latest album The Magic Whip, […]

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Just like Nas on Illmatic, Disclosure put their baby picture on the front of their award-winning debut album Settle – but they’ve gone wild for their second offering. Guy and Howard Lawrence have announced the name and artwork of their second album as Caracal, released on September, 25. In a statement, one half of […]

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They might have a combined age of 284, but The Rolling Stones have hinted they are planning another record. Retirement isn’t quite nigh for Mick Jagger, 71, Keith Richards, 71, Ronnie Wood, 68, and 74-year-old Charlie Watts – instead, they are eyeing up studio time to make a full-length LP, which would be their first […]

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Paul Gascoigne worries about English football today – he doesn’t believe English kids get a fair chance. Once hailed as England’s most natural footballer, Gazza says: “I’m not a big fan of the Premier League. Too many foreign players, and look at the national team because of it. “The English kids aren’t getting a chance. […]

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Charli XCX would be the best festival buddy – until she starts taking pictures of the toilets. The Boom Clap singer, who is playing Wireless, Reading and Leeds, and Bestival, doesn’t mind getting messy, stuck in the rain or putting up tents. Talking about her most exhilarating festival experience, Charli, 22, told The Guardian: “At Bonnaroo […]

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Today has been better than yesterday – because the full Glastonbury line-up is here.  But what follows now is meticulous planning on clashfinder.com to decipher who to see and who to forfeit, which, of course, will be scrapped as soon as you’re on site, knee-deep in mud and swilling gut-rotting cider. Still, as a rite […]

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Be a real Game of Thrones geek and plan your next holiday where the fire and ice is filmed, thanks to this trusty map. Want to see where sadistic Ramsay Bolton terrorises Reek in Winterfell in Northern Ireland or where King Joffrey was poisoned – and we all cheered – in King’s Landing in Croatia […]

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South West, Mid West or Wild West? What will Kim and Kanye name their second child? Or do you even care? Kim announced the couple are expecting another baby on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which aired in the US on Sunday, and immediately bookies around the world began accepting baby name bets. Kim told […]

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He is one of the world’s greatest artists and inspirations – so it is only right we pay tribute to Noel Gallagher on his birthday. The frontman is currently touring the US with High Flying Birds, so is probably just waking up as a 48-year-old to read the commendations (banging head included no doubt…). From […]

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