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Now the summer festival season is well under way and you may even have enjoyed a refreshing drink or three in a musical field somewhere yourself recently.

Elbow have been working the festival circuit for years and if anyone values the coming together of music fans for a pint in the sun, then it's singer Guy Garvey.

He's called for the law-makers to help ensure that festivals and small venues can continue to exist.

Speaking backstage at BST in Hyde Park Guy told us: "The future of music will be fine and dandy.

"We need some noise abatement laws to stop venues being shut down by property developers.

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And we need to make sure that health and safety doesn't get so crazy so we can't get together in fields and enjoy ourselves with a beer.

"If those liberties are protected music will be fine and dandy in ten years."

Read more: Why UK pubs and venues are under threat

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Guy, who enlisted the help of the crowd at his show on Saturday in conducting a massive 'reverse Mexican wave', from the front of the stage to the back, described the bands recent Glastonbury surprise set as "magical".

He added: "It was so much fun.

"I'm not sure how much of a surprise it was by the time we got there.

"Everyone was full of vim and vigour and we were on the receiving end of that."

Guitarist Mark Potter added: "Because it was Friday night - everyone was getting their party on."

When he isn't performing at festivals around the country, Guy is of course broadcasting over the airwaves for 6 Music and recently did so from the Manchester International Festival.

Here's the station's 6 reasons why we love Guy Garvey.

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So, how many of these 6 Music approved albums released since January have you listened to?

Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne, Mary Anne Hobbs and Tom Ravenscroft are presenting their picks of the year in special editions of 6 Music Recommends.

And on Friday 14 , you'll be able to hear choices throughout the day.

The list inclues singers like Marika Hackman and Aldous Harding (above) who performed at The Great Escape festival in May.

So if you've been dipping in and out of today's MNL, you may have already seen that he was named Annie Mac's Hottest Record last night.

If not, then where on earth have you been? Only joking - scroll down.

Tom was also on hand to support Kings of Leon at their British Summer Time show last week and we grabbed a few questions with him ahead of his set.

It's been several months since you made the BBC's Sound of 2017 longlist, what have you been up to since then?

I've just been writing, writing, writing, in the studio every day hopefully to put an album out next year. I still need to grow a bigger fanbase before then but there are three singles coming so hopefully they will connect.

Where is your ideal writing space?

I write every day, but my ideal time is late night, anywhere but more around the kitchen table, I like sitting around a few people and I go into my own little world and write.

How quick do songs come to you?

Sometimes it can take a day, sometimes a month or two or three, it's about knowing in myself whether it's a sick tune. Then I'll be like, 'right that's done'. But I'm picky so i need people to tell me it's sick before I can say it's cool.

People might still know you from your Chase and Status collab but how different is your music?

They're like drum and bass innit? I'm going for more like, I don't know but it's soulfully, poppy, real, fire-ey and humble music I'd say.

Are live audiences, especially at gigs like this, surprised by the difference?

Maybe before I put out some of my own music but since then they kind of know what I'm about. But this is like my first ever time playing on my own at festivals. I've got a caravan with a couch and TV and a full fridge, it's mad. I've got some free sunglasses and some good food. Mad. I feel like a king.

Its almost a shame you have to work now isn't it?

That's what tops it, I get to go and vibe with a load of people, it's cool.

We told you earlier that it seems as though they've been in every other room in London of late (scroll down) so it makes sense the Haim girls should visit the Live Lounge while they are here.

They didn't cover the theme tune of one of the many British TV shows that they've collectively fallen in love with but instead had a crack at a Selena Gomez tune.

Hats off to Danielle on household 'drums'...

You can watch a snippet above and the full performance will be available via YouTube/iPlayer soon.

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The Jetrospective (see what they've done there?) will see the band play a different album from their arsenal each night during an indulgent five night stay at The Garage in London.

It all kicks off on 25 September with 2006 debut album Making Dens and ends with latest album Curve of the Earth on 30 September.

Your favourite might be find on a night somewhere in between those two.

Check out the full list below.

In a statement, the band said: "The opportunity to tackle five albums worth of songs over five nights felt like one too good to turn down.

"Songs can soundtrack defining moments in all our lives, so we want to reach out to everyone for whom any of our music has played even the smallest part in their journey to come and share these shows with us.

"This is for you.”

We think if you go to all five you should get to keep one of the members of the band.

Like with the World Cup trophy.

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Whisper it... but apparently he's pretty good.

Christopher Nolan’s Second World War epic Dunkirk hits the cinemas on 21 July but last night it was screened to fans and critics for the first time.

Styles acts alongside big names like Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Kenneth Branagh. He plays Tommy, a British soldier who is fighting for his life as the allied forces attempt to evacuate French beaches while under enemy fire.

According to these reviewers below Harry more than holds his own.

Apparently "he acquits himself admirably" and "does well".

"Harry Styles can act people!!" exclaims one Tweeter - who may or may not have been his agent.

So he can act, sing and not a bad-looking fellow to boot. Let's just hope he's terrible at football then, or cooking...

Pretty difficult man to turn down we reckon.

James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem has been speaking to 6 Music's Lauren Laverne about spending a "good amount of time with David Bowie" and how the London superstar convinced him he was doing the right thing in reforming his band.

The Brooklyn band got back together this year, following their split in 2011 and James says the Thin White Duke/Ziggy/Dave advised him that the prospect of reforming "should make you feel uncomfortable".

Listen above.

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Not from the horse's mouth exactly but the director of a new Dr Dre documentary has let slip that a new record might be on the way.

"Dre still records," Director Allen Hughes told the website Uproxx, "people don't know this but Dre records every day.

"Right now he's producing, in the 11th hour, a track for Eminem's latest album. So Dre's still real active in music, you know?"

Eminem hasn't released a record since 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and there has been no official confirmation.

Read more.

Dre has shared a new track for the HBO series The Defiant Ones.

Sadly, Gunfire is full of the type of language that we just can't embed here but you can find it on YouTube.

You know, if you were looking...

British singer/songwriter Tom Grennan made the seven/eight hour drive from Glasgow to London to chat to Annie Mac about his new record Found What I've Been Looking For.

He's already 1-0 up over Bono and U2. They still hadn't found it at Twickenham this weekend.

Tom was performing at the TRNSMT festival in the Scottish city where he thinks he finally discovered how to "properly perform."

He says he's still waiting for the right time to do his first stage dive though.

You can't rush these things. Listen above.

We'll have a little Q&A with Tom shortly.

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Arcade Fire will be performing a special intimate session at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios for Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 and you, dear readers, could well be there...

Radio 1 are giving away 30 pairs of tickets to the event on Thursday night and you can register for tickets here, until 20:00 BST tonight.

If you do win and have a spare plus one, then remember who told you, alright?

Nudge, wink.

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Anyone who was at BST in London's Hyde Park on Sunday is bound to have Tom Petty's golden melodies still ringing around their ears.

If that's you, then you may also have caught another gang of cool jangly American guitar dudes called The Shelters.

Mr Petty himself has been taking the LA band under his wing, having produced several of their tracks including latest single Gold below.

We caught up with Josh and Chase from the band and they told us about the "unbelievable experience" of working with the Heartbreakers leader.

Josh (above right) said: "We're so blessed to have him.

"He's helped us see the importance in songwriting and how to use the studio to your advantage.

"You always pick something up about how he handles the crowd

Chase added: "He's a master of all - he's true to his art and the music.

"When he's playing live he's conducting the crowd.

"BOOM! He bangs his hand to right and they all move that way.

"He understands how to tap into a certain energy that's flowing through the crowd and he can tap into that and ride it always to the shore."

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The Britsh rock fanatics say they were honoured to play Hyde Park, "where all our heroes have played" and deliberately threw in a few musical nods to the likes of The Beatles and The Yardbirds into their set.

"We're just a little garage band from Los Angeles," said Chase.

"We never imagined we'd play anywhere this grand, where all our heroes have played.

"It was a special experience and hard to describe. British people are rock connoisseurs in my mind. They know their stuff."

If you happen to live in London and you missed them, The Shelters play Borderline on Wednesday night.

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Gwen Stefani has been named as a defendant in a legal action brought in the US by a fan whose leg was broken during a show in North Carllina.

Lisa Keri Sticklin has accused the singer of causing a "crowd rush" at the show in Charlotte that resulted in her suffering from a broken tibia.

According to Ms Sticklin, Stefani told fans to rush into a reserved section of the PNC Pavilion, saying: "Just fill in anywhere you like! Who cares about your lawn chairs? You can get new ones"

Ms Sticklin claims she suffered the injury when fans jumped over barricades and ropes into the seated portion.

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Psy's Gangnam Style is no longer the most-watched video on YouTube.

The South Korean megahit had been the site's most-played clip for the last five years.

The surreal video became so popular that it "broke" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code.

But the song has now been overtaken by another music video - Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again.

The heart-wrenching ballad has now been streamed 2,895,373,709 times; beating Psy's current count of 2,894,426,475 views.

Read more to find out how long it would take if those views were consecutive

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We reckon we should just stop referring to Haim as a Californian band and from now on just calling them the Brit three-piece.

The committed Anglophiles consider London a home-from-home and seemingly spend most of their time here.

They played a 'secret show' for the release of their new album at the weekend and it seems that might have been a minor miracle as they have difficulty tearing themselves from the tele' box (Take Me Out and Love Island being two favourites) when they're in the UK.

Listen above.

They also played a rather lovely acoustic take on their latest single I Want You Back.

And if you still haven't had enough Haim time yet, the girls will be in the Radio 1 live lounge shortly.

Wonder if they'll cover the theme tune of one of their favourite British shows?

Find out at Midday.

We really hope this one turns out to be true.

So much so that we've decided to give it its own new genre name if it happens: GrimeStone...or Brap 'n' Roll.

UK grime artist Skepta has got chins wagging by posting a picture on him and Mick Jagger together on Instagram, alongside a caption saying that he and the Rolling Stone are "in the studio".

No more information as to what they're doing in the studio as yet.

jamakabi online suggests the photo depicts: "Mick waiting for the drop like 😬👉"

While kingkas81 says: "The pic looks like it was taken in the 70's 😂👌🏽😎"

Stay tuned for more on that one.

Rumours that Mick was overheard weeks back singing Gimme Skepta are as-yet unfounded.

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How do you mark the 10th anniversary of the death of someone who thought nostalgia was "a disease"?

That was the challenge for a Manchester International Festival event on Monday, held in memory of Tony Wilson, the man who signed Joy Division, and the Happy Mondays and ran the Hacienda nightclub.

They managed it by avoiding the obvious Factory Records names and instead choosing performances that celebrated the influential label's little-remembered classical offshoot.

There was also the premiere of Blindness & Light, a new composition by New Order and Elbow collaborator Joe Duddell, using only the notes contained in the Joy Division song Atmosphere. All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

And there was a panel discussion that soon became an entertaining joust between veteran music journo Paul Morley and Lois from Pins and Joe from Cabbage about the merits of social media as a platform for art and whether having too much music is killing music, which Wilson would surely have enjoyed.

Morley, who's writing a book about Wilson, described him as a "weird abstract surreal professor" whose imagination and "intellectual energy" helped give Manchester a stronger sense of identity. In the '70s and '80s, Wilson was "designing a city in our imagination, and one that has kind of come true", Morley said.

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It is interesting that when terrible things happen to the city, the city has an answer, because it knows what it is. In the '70s I'm not sure it did know what it was."

Following the death of George Michael on Christmas Day last year, Nile Rodgers had revealed he was working on remixing some of George's songs for an anniversary release.

The Chic guitarist described the former Wham! star as a "genius" and said he was "planning a big comeback".

Until now there was little suggestion the material would ever see the light of day. Now it appears that Nile is getting to work sprinkling his stardust on the tracks, after he uploaded a picture of himself sitting behind the mixing desk, alongside a caption containing George's name.

Nile wrote: "Vocals are so hot the faders burned our hands."

We can't confirm that anything is set for release but Nile doesn't strike us a man who wastes his time in the studio for nothing.

Responding to fan queries on social media as to whether the music would come out, Nile explained it was beyond his control.

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Music streaming service Spotify has denied some of its playlists contain music by "fake artists".

It's in the wake of a new report by a music industry publication which listed 50 artists it claimed were not real.

They have racked up millions of streams by appearing on mood-based playlists such as Sleep and Ambient Chill, but many have no other visible profile.

"We do not and have never created 'fake' artists and put them on Spotify playlists. Categorically untrue, full stop," Spotify said in a statement.

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Police in Costa Rica have arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of launching a stage attack on yet another Ariana Grande gig on Sunday in Alajuela.

Costa Rican prosecutors said in a statement that the Colombian man, known as Caicedo Lopez, made threats online in Arabic.

On 22 May, 22 people lost their lives and many more were badly injured after a terrorist attack at Ariana's concert in Manchester.

The 23-year-old singer posted the below picture online alongside the caption: "I love you, Costa Rica 🌙"