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What is Polari? The secret language Martin Kemp has been praised for speaking

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The Independent UK

"Discharge meets GBH and Motörhead at an anti-Nazi demonstration after drinking cider all afternoon in a Hackney squat." Ten obscure and criminally under-rated UK punk albums

There's more to British punk rock than Never Mind The Bollocks and London Calling

Metal Hammer

Aurora take down The MongolZ at BLAST Open Rotterdam

A firepower-led dominant win over The MongolZ for Aurora.

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Pam Hogg obituary

Fashion designer whose idiosyncratic mix of glam and DIY couture was worn by Björk, Siouxsie Sioux and Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK

Strange days: how the Blitz club changed the 1980s – and fashion

A new exhibition looks at how the legendary London club spawned acts such as Spandau Ballet and Boy George – but also provided a petri dish for fashion and style to grow

The Guardian - UK

Blitz: Iconic nightclub that made the New Romantics famous celebrated in groundbreaking show

Spandau Ballet, Siobhan Fahey, Princess Julia and Boy George were all regulars

Evening Standard

Brockington warning as Breakers star sweats on injury

New Zealand recruit Izaiah Brockington has already turned NBL rivals' heads and fellow import Parker Jackson-Cartwright believes there's plenty more to come.

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Spandau Ballet unearth lost Blitz Club-era gem Eyes ahead of new box set

Spandau Ballet's new early years box set Everything Is Now – Vol 1: 1978–1982 is released on September 12.

BANG Premier

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 eternal, anthemic appeal

The Guardian - UK

UK Blitz chess final pits grandmasters against a golden generation

Juniors make up nearly half the field, including a nine-year-old top seed, while in Kolkata Magnus Carlsen surged to victory in the Tata Steel Rapid

The Guardian - UK

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London celebrates the optimism, hedonism and style of the new romantics

The Fashion and Textile Museum’s new exhibition, Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London, surveys the glamorous and often outrageous fashion, music and clubbing scene in the capital more than 40 years ago. It’s an affectionate and nostalgic celebration of new romantic London and the people who came to define it.

The Conversation

Trump ground game faces new fraud claims as video shows door-knock hack

Exclusive: clip from canvasser for Musk’s America Pac reveals apparent ease in which GPS location can be spoofed

The Guardian - US

Trump ground game operation now largely run by Elon Musk-backed group

Exclusive: America Pac has up to 400 employees in each of the seven key states, with the campaign dependent on it

The Guardian - US

Harrison shines for unbeaten Bullets at NBL Blitz

Coach Justin Schueller's Brisbane Bullets showed they could be a force to be reckoned with during the upcoming NBL season after going unbeaten in the Blitz.

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Louder

"I've not done Taylor Swift's numbers, but I don't give a sh*t because I'm proud of the songs I did": As Fish prepares to leave the business behind, he reflects on Marillion, going solo and life after music

After next year's farewell tour Fish is leaving music and the bright lights behind to live with his wife (and 13 sheep) on a Scottish island

Wallpaper

Remembering Rusty Egan's Blitz Club: a place to 'avoid the mob and the homophobes', where the New Romantics were born

As he releases new vinyl boxset, 'Blitzed!', Wallpaper* meets DJ Rusty Egan to talk about London's scene-building Blitz club – the antidote to the late 70s punk scene and a hot-bed of experimental fashion

The Guardian - UK

Fendi kicks off Milan fashion week with nod to Roman heritage with a British twist

The Blitz Kids and New Romantics inspire designer Kim Jones’s latest collection along with classical Italian imagery

The Times of India

Prime Volleyball League: Chennai Blitz stun Kochi Blue Spikers with dominant performance

NEW DELHI: In a display of continued dominance, the Chennai Blitz secured a convincing victory over the Kochi Blue Spikers with a 15-10, 15-12, 16-14 win in the third season of the RuPay Prime Volleyball League at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai.

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The Guardian - UK

Magnus Carlsen hits two maximums as carefree world No 1 continues his surge

The Norwegian scored 11/11 in chess.com’s Titled Tuesday, then 9/9 in the Zagreb Grand Tour blitz, and is now contending for victory in the online Aimchess Masters

The Hindu

Grand Chess Tour: Carlsen wins; Gukesh finishes 5th, Anand settles for 7th in Blitz event

Young Indian Grandmaster D. Gukesh finished fifth while his illustrious compatriot Viswanathan Anand could only manage a tied seventh place in the third leg of the 2023 SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz chess tournament.

The Times of India

Grand Chess Tour: Gukesh finishes 5th, Viswanathan Anand settles for tied 7th in Blitz event

ZAGREB (Croatia): Young Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh finished fifth while his illustrious compatriot Viswanathan Anand could only manage a tied seventh place in the third leg of the 2023 SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz chess tournament.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Terrell Davis interview: ‘[Video games are] the only thing I have now’

Former Broncos running back Terrell Davis reflects on how NFL Blitz helps players, including him, live out their NFL fantasies

The Guardian - UK

‘We are everything that scares curtain twitchers’: the bands resurrecting the spirit of Oi!

The hardcore movement grew from working-class angst in the late-70s, but got tainted by racist aggro. Now a new wave of bands are reviving its cathartic anger – without the far-right associations

The Guardian - UK

Visage outside Blitz nightclub … Sheila Rock’s best photograph

‘Blitz was where all the New Romantics hung out. If you didn’t look good, you didn’t get in. Steve Strange is at the front of the shot – with big hair’

Manchester Evening News

Lost underground Manchester club with six dancefloors 'like Aliens movie lair'

Basement nightclub Pips was an iconic venue for Manchester's goth, new wave and new romantic music fans

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