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1 month ago | 
vogue.com | Elektra Kotsoni |Chris Bethell
“I treat every season like it’s the last,” Ashish Gupta tells me over Zoom from New Delhi, a couple of weeks before his runway show, which is taking place in London’s 180 Strand today. “It’s not just fashion — in life, you just don’t know where you’ll be or what will happen. I am so lucky to be able to do what I love. I never take it for granted.”Ashish, in particular, has proven a certain level of resilience.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Chris Bethell
This week, a hellacious circus of horrors has been travelling the length and breadth of the United Kingdom in a mission of bringing abject chaos to tens of thousands. Kicking off in Leeds last week, Slipknot's headline tour is a 25-year celebration of the debut album that put the nine masked maniacs on the map and set about changing the course of heavy music forever.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Chris Bethell
December 4, 2024Words and photos:Chris BethellLast night Sleep Token rounded off their epic sold-out UK arena tour with their second headline show The O2 in London. With 20,000 fans gathered in worship to the secretive entity known as Vessel, it's a staggering reminder of just how far and how fast the anonymous collective have grown.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Chris Bethell
November 1, 2024Words and photos:Chris BethellLast night, Sum 41 hit the English capital one last time, as their farewell tour rolled into the OVO Arena Wembley. And having reduced the 10,000-strong crowd to a sweaty, wide-eyed, joyous mess, we caught up with some of the punk veterans biggest fans to find out what they love about Canada's finest and why pop-punk ain't going anywhere. How long have you been a Sum 41 fan?
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Luke Morton |Chris Bethell |Jez Pennington
November 1, 2024Words:Luke MortonPhotos:Chris Bethell and Jez PenningtonIt’s a day many thought would never come. After 30 years of fat lips, walking disasters, and things that look infected, Sum 41 are calling it a day.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
vogue.co.uk | Lucy Maguire |Chris Bethell
It may have been the third day of Frieze, but Thursday night, the London fashion community gathered at a very different kind of event. Queues snaked around East London streets as editors, influencers and mega fans turned out for Sukeban – a new Japanese women’s wrestling league launched by designer Olympia Le-Tan and her brother-in-law Alex Detrick in 2022.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
voguebusiness.com | Lucy Maguire |Chris Bethell
Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts. It may have been the third day of Frieze, but Thursday night, the London fashion community gathered at a very different kind of event. Queues snaked around East London streets as editors, influencers and megafans turned out for Sukeban — a new Japanese women’s wrestling league launched by designer Olympia Le-Tan and her brother-in-law Alex Detrick in 2022.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Paul Harries |Sam Law |Chris Bethell
September 17, 2024Words and Clown photo:Paul HarriesAs told to:Sam LawMichelle and Kirsten photo:Chris BethellRobb Flynn described Michelle Kerr as a cross between golden age movie star Elizabeth Taylor and Motörhead frontman Lemmy when he posted about her passing on Instagram earlier this week.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Chris Bethell
August 13, 2024Words and photos:Chris BethellFor more than 30 years, Korn have been pushing the boundaries of heavy music. Pioneering the entire nu-metal movement with their self-titled debut in 1994, the Bakersfield dreadlock enthusiasts helped take metal into the mainstream, reinvent themselves with a dubstep album, and explore the depths of darkness and depravity in the name of art.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
vice.com | Chris Bethell
Considering the acts on stage usually have names like Wargasm or Bleed From Within, it’s crazy what you see at hard rock festivals. At the Download and 2000Trees festival sites this summer, we were struck by the sheer number of loved-up mosher couples wandering the sun-scorched earth in matching outfits, holding one other’s hair as they spewed behind the bogs.We pinned down the smuggest pairs we could find and quizzed them on the secrets of love.
