Young dancers at the Ivy House in south-east London join the older crowd amid a renewed appetite for authentic, community events
The Ivy House pub in Nunhead, south-east London, has long been associated with raucous music, with the rock legends Ian Dury and Elvis Costello gracing its stage in the 70s, and indie favourites caroline and Kiran Leonard pulling in crowds today. But last Friday, it was a traditional Scottish ceilidh dance rather than a grassroots gig luring London’s cool kids to its sticky dancefloor.
The event is emblematic of a renewed appetite for analogue, in-person experiences among a younger generation plagued by a loneliness epidemic and fatigued by meeting people on dating apps.
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Koe Wetzel dropped some new music for his fans.
Wetzel is one of the most popular singers in the country music world, and for good reason.
His music can be incredibly emotional and heartbreaking, and it can also be unbelievably high-tempo and fun. The "Jaded" singer also is impressively able to blend rock vibes with traditional country music.
That's exactly what he did with his latest release.
KOE WETZEL GOES VIRAL WITH STRIPPED-DOWN 'WHEN I'M GONE' PERFORMANCE THAT HAS FANS BUZZING
Wetzel surprised fans on Wednesday when he released a collaboration with Stephen Wilson Jr. The track is titled "Hard Way," and is now included on the deluxe version of Wetzel's "The Night Champion" album.
The upbeat country/rock blend tells the story of needing to learn lessons in life the hard way in order to grow as a person.
It's definitely going to be a massive hit with fans of Wetzel's music. Give it a listen below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
KOE WETZEL AND ELLA LANGLEY'S 'THAT'S WHY WE FIGHT' PERFORMANCE AT REDWEST FESTIVAL GOES VIRAL
Pretty solid, right? This is an immediate addition to my "Liked Songs" playlist on Spotify. Judging from the comments on YouTube, I won't be the only one.
One person wrote, "Another banger!! Who agrees??"
Another added, "Man that first chorus had some Alice In Chains vibes. Love this s***."
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A third commented, "Koe dropped another banger."
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Koe Wetzel teaming up with Stephen Wilson Jr. is exactly what country fans want to see, and both delivered. Let me know your thoughts on "Hard Way" at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
The Rotterdam band are a riot of sound, look and attitude led by Eva Kah, who is as much a living artwork as she is a phenomenal live performer
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Recommended if you like Gnod, Discharge, Gwar
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Rotterdam’s Bombstrap are a riotous and theatrical fusion of sound, look and attitude. An embodied version of John Milton’s Pandæmonium with the amp turned up to 11, the band revel in hardcore alternative living, internet wormholes, art-school pretensions and a gungy form of hardcore. Based in and drawing succour from one of the most famous squatted centres in the city, Het Poortgebouw, Bombstrap are a noisy counterblast to the increasing and overwhelmingly witless “circuses-and-bread” gentrification of Rotterdam.
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Kentridge’s cine-musical creation, made to accompany Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, is a marvel of puppetry, dance and humour, exploring humanity, grief and idealism
The Baku international arts festival in Azerbaijan is showcasing an amazing cine-musical creation, perhaps the most amazing animation I have ever seen. Oh to Believe in Another World is an hour-long collage animation with live-action choreography by the 71-year-old South African artist and film-maker William Kentridge. It is shown with the live orchestral accompaniment of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, and this event is partly in honour of the 120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s birth this year, and partly to honour Shostakovich’s reportedly unrequited love (and lifelong friendship) for his student, Azerbaijani pianist and composer Elmira Nazirova.
The 10th symphony was inspired by Stalin and premiered shortly after his death, so it seems probable that Shostakovich had been at work on it for some time before this, long enough beforehand for at least some of the composition to have been conceived without any sense of Stalin’s death. Could part of it perhaps have been originally intended as an obediently dramatic tribute to Stalin? Yet the music arguably combines fear, awe, revulsion, and a hysterical reaction to the mad energy of Stalin’s genocidal tyranny, a darkly ambiguous respect for the great dictator whose victory in 1945 was a mainstay of the postwar dispensation; perhaps there is also a feeling in the music’s swirl that a great and terrible era has passed away, and with it a kind of grief at all that had been sacrificed to it.
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Irish band will play the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as part of The Greatest Show On Earth World Tour
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The American singer’s genre-smashing new album feels like the sound of 2026, but she picked up a guitar long before Charli xcx and the gang — and her sense of timing is impeccable
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In his new song, the ‘Summer of 69’ singer rips Trump over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his Iran war
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In his new song, the ‘Summer of 69’ singer rips Trump over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his Iran war
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U2 and Parton collaborated on ‘Torn’, which closes the band’s forthcoming album ‘Carnaval de Luz’
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U2 and Parton collaborated on ‘Torn’, which closes the band’s forthcoming album ‘Carnaval de Luz’
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The King of Pop’s daughter claims executor John Branca has paid himself more than any family member has received
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The award-winning band will play at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium following high demand for tickets
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