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Leslie Knott
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Socialist/Dreamer/Loves Music, Vinyl & Gigs/ I'm a little bit country!
Recent gigs: GIMIC, Humdrum, Honest Work
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Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema
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The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK
Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema
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December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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With a quarter of the 21st century almost behind us, The Observer’s editors and film critics choose the most memorable movies of the last 25 years

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The best 25 films of the century so far | The Observer
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December 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health, according to the world’s largest review.

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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
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November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Hey why not support this
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Piehouse Workers Co-op - Emergency Fundraiser!
Help our DIY grassroots music and arts venue recover from a flood that destroyed equipment, and cost us thousands due to having to close.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The twin sisters’ first album together since P.S. Eliot’s breakup in 2011 is a hailstorm of warm, exceptionally-written country-rock bangers backed by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook.

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Katie and Allison Crutchfield's Reunion On Snocaps Was Worth the Wait
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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In 1976, four tea-drinking Mancs created a vital punk rock introduction out of thin air, in only a few hours’ time. And it was practically an accident, cast into an all-consuming world of big, proggy sagas and radio-safe, singer-songwriter ilk.

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Time Capsule: Buzzcocks, 'Spiral Scratch'
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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At 79, Viv Peto is proof punk has no age limit. The Oxford-based washboard player in horMones punk band picked up her instrument a year ago.

“Now I’m old, all constraints are gone and I can do what I like,” she said.

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‘We were the original punks’: the rebel women revitalising local music scenes
A thriving movement is reclaiming the genre and bringing more diverse audiences to live venues
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October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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TTSSFU, Squid, Naima Bock, Babymorrocco, Gruff Rhys and more among new additions for Sŵn Festival, which takes place from 16-18 October buff.ly/mZh9my7
TTSSFU, Squid, Naima Bock and more among new additions for Sŵn Festival
Cardiff’s award-winning Sŵn Festival has unveiled a fresh batch of artists appearing at its 2025 edition, taking place across the Welsh capital from 16-18 October.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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As a “world-class” drug addict and alcoholic, Osbourne’s tastes had a tendency to escalate. One pint of Guinness led to nine more, then cocaine, then pills; an attempt to quit smoking resulted in him smoking 30 cigars a day.

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‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 extraordinary life lessons from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir
The man who ended up smoking 30 cigars a day after trying to quit cigarettes also comes across in his book as level-headed, self-aware and savagely funny. Here’s what the late rock legend can teach us...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Israel’s illegal interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is an affront to human decency.

My piece for @novaramedia.com.

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Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency | Novara Media
Israel’s detention of hundreds of peaceful activists - including my constituent, Novara Media’s Kieran Andrieu - is both a violation of their human rights and a further act of cruelty against the peop...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Very much the story of singer Ricard Jobson, this amiable portrait takes in tales of Sid Vicious and the pop culture hysteria when the genre exploded

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The Story of Skids: Scotland’s No 1 Punk Band review – likable look back to the noise era
Very much the story of singer Ricard Jobson, this amiable portrait takes in tales of Sid Vicious and the pop culture hysteria when the genre exploded
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October 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Last week marked the release of Debsey Wykes’ new book, Teenage Daydream: We Are the Girls Who Play in a Band, and we were lucky enough to publish an excerpt from it on our site

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October 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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If Boaty McBoatface taught us one thing, it’s that the public do not take a naming ceremony particularly seriously.

Cue the newly named leaf-removal train: Ctrl Alt Deleaf.

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Train named Ctrl Alt Deleaf to help blast billions of leaves from Great Britain’s tracks
Network Rail says train named after public vote will join fleet of ‘unsung hero’ leaf-busters this autumn
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September 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The all-girl trio, Dolly Mixture gave punk a playful spin and drew admirers in Paul Weller and Captain Sensible – but, singer Debsey Wykes recalls, faced confusion for being out of step with era’s noise and anger

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Supporting the Jam, sausages with the Bay City Rollers and defying skinheads: post-punk girl group Dolly Mixture look back
The all-girl trio gave punk a playful spin and drew admirers in Paul Weller and Captain Sensible – but, singer Debsey Wykes recalls, faced confusion for being out of step with era’s noise and anger
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The controversial, rabble-rousing strain of punk known as Oi! is once again giving voice to a nation’s working-class and disaffected youth. Luminaries of this new ‘Cold Oi’ scene explain the music’s eternal, anthemic appeal

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Oi! la la: meet the new wave of French punks making noise
The controversial, rabble-rousing strain of punk known as Oi! is once again giving voice to a nation’s working-class and disaffected youth. Luminaries of this new ‘Cold Oi’ scene explain the music’s e...
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July 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Brisbane’s Rocking Horse Records turns 50 this year – but it should also be celebrated for its role in facing down a ‘nonsense’ culture war that began with undercover cops and the Dead Kennedys

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Is the F-word offensive in Queensland? The tiny record shop that faced down a culture war in court – and won
Brisbane’s Rocking Horse Records turns 50 this year – but it should also be celebrated for its role in facing down a ‘nonsense’ culture war that began with undercover cops and the Dead Kennedys
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July 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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“Nothing against it. Always been a fan on the telly. Nobody mentioned that being here is pretending being trapped in central London in rush hour during a tube strike is a party.

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'This was a mistake,' realises man who is at Glastonbury until Tuesday
JUST one hour into the Glastonbury festival, attendee Tom Booker has admitted it is ‘not for him’ with approximately 96 hours left to go.
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June 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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We’d started as a knock-off Dr Feelgood, but once we came up with Love Like Anthrax we realised we had to dump all the other songs and write more like that. Then Damaged Goods opened the floodgates – we brought funk to punk.

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‘Nobody makes a record like that for the money’: how Gang of Four made Entertainment!
‘There was tension with the National Front and swastikas on walls. So I’m proud the album is an outsider classic – but feel depressed these songs are still relevant’
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June 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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May 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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People in the EU are being advised to stockpile enough food, water and essentials for 72 hours as part of a European strategy that aims to increase readiness for catastrophic floods and fires, pandemics and military attacks.

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Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens
Bloc’s first preparedness strategy urges people to prepare for floods, fires, pandemics or military strikes
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March 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Steel Pulse won a Grammy, risked being shot in the US and were adored by Bob Marley. As they go on tour, the band look back on half a century of being a voice for the voiceless

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UK reggae pioneers Steel Pulse: ‘We told punk fans – you can pogo, but please don’t spit at us’
They won a Grammy, risked being shot in the US and were adored by Bob Marley. As they go on tour, the band look back on half a century of being a voice for the voiceless
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March 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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The UK spent more money than most other countries on economic help during COVID yet still ended up with larger drops in life expectancy, more people too sick to work, huge levels of homelessness and soaring mental health problems among young people.

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Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout
Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly despite spending more than other countries
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March 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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40 Greatest One-Album Wonders
The best one-and-dones, including Lauryn Hill, Jeff Buckley, Young Marble Giants, and more

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40 Greatest One-Album Wonders
The greatest one-and-done studio full-length albums, including Lauryn Hill, Jeff Buckley, Young Marble Giants, Temple of the Dog, and more.
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February 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The musician lived a wild story of many acts: Jonathan Maitland turned it into a play and read it to him just a year before he died. This is how their encounter went
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‘I hope you enjoy the show. I hope I’m not dead’: how Feelgood star Wilko never saw the play about his life
The musician lived a wild story of many acts: Jonathan Maitland turned it into a play and read it to him just a year before he died. This is how their encounter went …
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February 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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An undercover investigation by ITV News has revealed how ‘Active Club England’ is following a blueprint established by neo-Nazi networks in the US and Europe, using extreme fitness and fraternity as a front to recruit and radicalise members for a so-called "race war".

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February 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM