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Difford – the legendary songwriter of Squeeze fame – is now into season five of his podcast, I Never Thought It Would Happen, and the first show in the new series finds him gamely grappling with Adams ...

A psytrance festival that was to have taken place in South Gloucestershire, UK in September has been cancelled, after locals blocked it, describing the music as “a form of torture”.

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