Alex DeLarge

+1 on this. Feels like she uses 90s house classics in a really fun way, without feeling tongue in cheek. For fans of Confidence Man, Erika De Casier. Link:

The unluckiest feminist in the world strikes again, poor sod.

That's because he was f**king shite.

My best guess is this: Creepy men have been inappropriate with the (very young) female audience members at TLDP shows in the past few weeks. TLDP/ management have had a word with security - saying to keep an eye on men, particularly if they're older and on their own. Maybe to even question men who look shady about whether they like the band, to name records etc. Overzealous and undertrained staff have taken this way too far and grouped together a bunch of men on their own and dealt with it in the least appropriate, least subtle way they could. edit: I've just read the NME article/ venue statement - yeah I'm pretty sure this is what's happened. "after information was provided to our security team about incidents at previous The Last Dinner Party gigs, the venue management team made an ad-hoc change to our policy" - TLDP management contacted them but then security have gone way overboard. It's not necessarily a bad idea in theory but has been handled terribly. Having a security guard smile and say "you excited to go in mate? What songs do you want to hear?" to make it sound like chit-chat was probably the intention, but something got cocked up along the way.

I went to see The Last Dinner Party in Sheffield a few days ago. I am in my 20s, and was on my own edit: and I'm a tall, masculine presenting male. As far as I could see - there were loads of teenage/ student girls, but also a bunch of aforementioned 6music dads. There wasn't any screening or really much of a visible security presence outside what's normal and expected. I wonder if something happened at one of their concerts in the past week that led to this.

Bruce "Glastonbury is too middle-class" Dickinson charging over £135 for tickets to the Maiden tour next year. Don't forget to buy your MasterCard exclusive VIP tickets, and get there early to watch Steve Harris' nepo baby stink the place out, wouldn't want to give a leg up to a young band that could do with the exposure/ dosh.

Are Biffy big enough to sub these days? Seems like it would be another situation like this year where the Pyramid is half empty because its not 2011 anymore.

Will be interesting how Chappell maintains the hype on a second album. Just to throw a name into the conversation - will be interesting to see where Sabrina Carpenter goes from here.

Depends what you're looking for. His music has two sides really. The moody, introspective, James Blake influenced stuff and then the big, feelgood 'hugging your mates' tracks. If you're looking for something that's fairly easy-going and light, his music is perfect. He samples voice-notes by his friends, instagram lives, stuff like that. I'm not a massive fan of Fred, but some of his tracks are pretty good. That's probably where to start if you are actually interested.

Eminem would draw a huge crowd, but I still think he'd be shite. The kids I teach do generally seem to like him, but I've heard them talk about Kanye and Biggie a lot more.

Fairs mate, don't disagree with this generally. I'm not a massive Fred fan but thought you were just slating him, apologies.

People just don't like Fred - they find his music boring and don't like that he's a rich lad doing music. I don't like Ed Sheeran, Muse, Guns 'n Roses or Coldplay. But the thing is, I know they're big enough to headline. I just avoided them on the farm.

Fred's crowd will be decent - even if the new album doesn't do well the whole "this is a moment" thing he has is his main selling point. I'm guessing a lot of his fans (particularly younger ones) don't really listen to albums.

Eminem live was f**king shite. He'd draw a big crowd because he's still popular despite releasing dross for years.

Enjoyed the film. I like Kneecap but the whole "we pull beautiful women and are on a bender!" stuff got a bit tired after a while. Still - nice to see them doing well. I'm gonna echo the comments on here - they were genuinely really good actors.