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  Tim Hughes talks to Robin Bennett ahead of this weekend’s Wood festival
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  He has been credited with making folk music cool. The energetic Devon lad whose adrenaline-fuelled virtuoso guitar and fiddle-playing and captivating songs have the power to enthral audiences everywhere from his local pub to the fields of Glastonbury.
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  Her victory on X Factor saw the nation fall in love with this strikingly beautiful and powerful-voiced singer.
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  OMD were like nothing else on the planet. Tim Hughes talks to the group’s frontman
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  Tim Hughes is impressed by a down-to-earth Rudimental as they hit chart heights
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           <title>Highlights: Danish dreampop, Welsh country and Original Rabbit Foot swing</title>
           
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  Our guide to the week's best gigs
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  Tim Hughes meets indie-rockers Peace - tipped as one of the year’s biggest acts
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  Tim Hughes talks to singer, guitarist and mother Beth Orton, who is going back on the road with her new album
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           <title>Songbird Beth Orton's sweet dreams</title>
           
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  When you have recorded as many records as Beth Orton, you can be forgiven for forgetting what they all sound like. After all, you can only fit so many songs into a show.
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           <title>Coope Boyes and Simpson: Singers happy to make political points</title>
           
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  Meet a trio determined to keep alive memory of Great War victims
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  Tony Hicks sits in his summerhouse, surveys the scene across his immaculate garden and reflects on his role in rock ‘n’ roll history. It’s another cold spring morning but the sun is bright, and the views across the valley from Henley-on-Thames are beautiful.
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  Tim Hughes talks to Britain’s best-loved two-hit wonder (and film star) John Otway
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           <title>Steeleye's Maddy still loves playing live</title>
           
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  With more than four decades in the music business, Maddy Prior can rightly claim to be folk royalty. Emerging from the folk revival of the 1960s, her band Steeleye Span fused traditional melodies and lyrics with rock rhythms to create what became known as folk-rock.
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           <title>Music the food of love for celebrity duo behind Feastival</title>
           
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  IT SEEMS an unlikely partnership: the celebrity chef and the former rock and roll wild boy.
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  Alex James and Jamie Oliver will again bring their food and music festival to a West Oxfordshire farm. Tim Hughes finds out what's on
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  Tim Hughes speaks to the songwriter Ruarri Joseph, who has already won a surge of acclaim, way beyond his adpoted Cornwall
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           <title>Dublin Legends head for the New Theatre</title>
           
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  With their silver hair, beards and centuries-old repertoire of traditional Irish folk, The Dubliners were unlikely rock stars.
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           <title>Stranglers go beyond punk and disorderly</title>
           
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  Something’s not quite right. I’m talking to one of the hardest men in rock: a bear of a bloke who has been banned from entire countries. And he is utterly charming.
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           <title>Guitar genius Johnny to give fans even more</title>
           
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  It was one of the most sensational break-ups in rock history.
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           <title>Of Monsters and Men: a magical mixture of monstrous talent</title>
           
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  Tim Hughes talks to the band whose Nordic roots have inspired a hidden world
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