Poppie Platt

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Poppie Platt

The rumour mill is in overdrive ahead of the festival next month. From Pulp to Lady Gaga and Haim, here are the biggestEach and every year, Glastonbury's headliners find themselves privy to every festival organiser's worst nightmare: the rumour mill. Punters, never content with just three official headliners over the weekend, tie themselves in knot digging into tour schedules and album releases to offer proof that their favourite artist will actually appear - just in secret.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Poppie Platt

Mormonism is having a moment. On TikTok and Instagram; in hit stage and TV shows; amongst the believers forming snaking queues outside churches from Salt Lake City to South Kensington. In the era of Trump’s America, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with all its conservative rules and regulations, is riding a wave of increasing popularity.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Poppie Platt

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Poppie Platt

As Liam and Noel Gallagher prepare to rake in millions from this summer’s much-fêted Oasis reunion shows, Manchester’s favourite warring brothers risk being overshadowed by one of the Nineties’ most beloved other bands. Back with their first album in almost 24 years, Pulp prove – once again – that their title of Britpop’s wittiest and most intelligent chroniclers of everyday life (and sex) is in no danger of being snatched away.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Poppie Platt

"And so you move from Camden / Out to Hackney / And you stress about wrinkles / Instead of acne," he sings on Grown Ups, a thudding, synth-heavy reflection on ageing, while Farmers Market is Cocker at his most Cocker: a bit pretentious, a bit strange, but nonetheless intoxicating. Elegiac strings give way to his earnest vocals as he regales us with the tale of an intense love affair.