That's all for today - because, quite frankly, that was a lot of music news to take in, not least the story of a streaker rudely interrupting an Elbow concert.

We also had news of some potential new Michael Jackson music, Lady Gaga buying her fans pizza, more trouble on the UK festival circuit and Bjork's new single.

But in case that really wasn't enough, we thought we'd leave you with a clip of Colombia's rapping nun, who's going to be performing for the Pope during his visit to the country, which starts tomorrow.

"The cool thing about rap is it stays in your head really easily," she says. Fingers crossed the Pope agrees - although he is more known to be a fan of progressive rock, even having released his own albums in the style. Maybe the two should collaborate.

Nun.W.A anyone?

It's fair to say that Irish pop rockers The Script divide opinion, but today they pushed that to the limit by deciding to cover rapper 2Pac in Radio 1's The Live Lounge. Their full version of Changes will be online soon, but until then, here's a snippet:

On Twitter, reactions seem to be a mix of overjoyed, and whatever the opposite of overjoyed is.

If you do decide to listen to it, don't say you haven't been warned.

The Music Venues Trust has launched a campaign to help stop small music venues closing.

Around a third of the UK's small gig spaces have closed in the past decade, according to the organisation.

"These venues are run by passionate people who really want live music to happen in their local town or city. They're not profit making," says CEO Mark Davyd.

The charity's Fightback 2017 campaign will raise money to help venue owners.

Speaking to Music News LIVE at the House of Common Festival last week, Laurie from Slaves (pictured above) said it had always been a struggle for new bands to find venues.

"We get labelled a Tunbridge Wells band, but I'm from Maidstone and there were no venues in Maidstone," he said. "And when we did get gigs, we instantly got banned for two years because of the crowd.

"It was really hard when I was young. We relied on someone having a birthday party that you could play at, so it was about making your own opportunities

"Getting gigs was hard, though - just getting booked at any venue. When you finally got that gig, it would be like one or two a week, it was a release. Some people go to the gym or play football - we played gigs."

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Earlier we told you about the new 3D version of Michael Jackson's Thriller, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival (scroll down). Now we have this mysterious teaser, which has been tweeted on MJ's social accounts.

It features a montage of images like black cats and spiders with snippets of his hits Dirty Diana and Blood On The Dancefloor playing in the background.

Speaking at the Thriller premiere in Italy, John Branca - who works with Michael's estate - said: "I don’t foresee us releasing any more unreleased music for quite some time.

"That doesn’t mean there won’t be interesting [new] record releases in the very near future."

Which means?...

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A gig to reopen the Manchester Arena, featuring artists like Noel Gallagher, The Courteeners and Blossoms, is to be broadcast live on three radio stations on Saturday.

BBC Radio Manchester, Key 103, external and Radio X, external will all air the full show - the first at the venue since the bombing that killed 22 people on 22 May.

The line-up also includes Pixie Lott, Rick Astley, Louisa Johnson and Bugzy Malone.

The We Are Manchester show will not be televised and tickets have sold out.

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The British Library in London is delving into its collection of over 6.5 million recordings for a new Season of Sound exhibition this autumn.

Listen: 140 Years of Recorded Sound will run from 6 October - 11 March and will highlight key moments from the history of recorded sound, including the birth of the BBC and popular music.

It will also feature 16-year-old Alfred Taylor, whose 1922 Wireless Log, external, the Library says, can be compared to the vlogs of today's YouTubers.

"The British Library has always been known as the home of the nation's words, but visitors may not be aware that we are home to the nation's sounds too," said Steve Cleary, the library's lead curator of literary and creative recordings.

"We're delighted to be opening up our sound archive with this Season of Sound, as part of our ongoing work to preserve and allow access to the nation's sound heritage."

Recent music-themed exhibitions at the Library include one on 40 years of punk, external.

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Iceland's only megastar. Bjork, has revealed she is to release a single, The Gate, on 18 September - her first new music since 2015's Vulnicura album.

And she's managed to let the world know in typical Bjork fashion, via a Facebook post where she seems to be dressed as an angle standing in the middle of a snowflake, while a drone flies above her creating a rainbow (see above).

"The Gate is essentially a love song," she says in an interview with Dazed and Confused that also appeared today, external. "But I say ‘love’ in a more transcendent way... It’s about rediscovering love – but in a spiritual way, for lack of a better word."

Make of that what you will, but we're excited.

In the interview, Bjork discusses a spate of secret DJ sets she's been doing recently everywhere from London to Tokyo. She says she's actually been doing things like them for years back home. “Iceland is weird," she says. "It doesn’t really have a hierarchy – like, you’ll see the president at the supermarket. If you’re in a bar and the music’s not good, you fix it.

"When I’m with my Icelandic friends, they’ll be like, ‘Ugh, this is rubbish!’ and plug their phone in at the bar. We have this group mentality, a strange mix of anarchy and a total hate of authority. We don’t like being told what to do."

There is one clear lesson to learn from that quote: don't invite Bjork to your house party unless you have absolute confidence in your playlist.

So, who are are your favourite new Norwegian punk band?

Go on, bet some of you don't even have one.

Well, there's still time to check out the mighty Sløtface who hail from Stavanger as they play a session for Phil Taggart on Radio 1.

The band played six shows at The Great Escape music festival in Brighton earlier this year. But this one you don't even have to leave the comfort of your desk /sofa/ bed for...

Variety

Murray Lerner - a legendary, Oscar-winning filmmaker, who documented some major musical moments of the 60s and 70s - has passed away, aged 90.

Lerner recorded historic footage of Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Jazz Festival (see above), including him playing electric guitar in public for the first time. He also filmed Jimi Hendrix and The Doors' last major performances at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.

Oasis sampled some of that Isle of Wight footage to open their song, ******* in the Bushes, which shows just how influential his films have been.

“He was a complete filmmaker,” Lerner's son Noah told Variety. “A cinematographer first and foremost, but someone who also wrote, edited, produced, and directed.”

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Lerner gained fame in 1967 with Festival, about the Newport gathering, but he also won the best documentary Oscar in 1981 for his film, From Mozart to Mao: Isaac Stern in China, about an American violinist becoming one of the first musicians to play the Communist country.

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Pitchfork

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A Prince fan in the dearly-department musician's home state of Minneapolis has launched a petition to have a statue of the megastar replace one of Christopher Columbus.

The move follows efforts to remove statues of slave owners across the US.

"Here in Minnesota, communities are reigniting the demand to bring down [the] state’s monument to Christopher Columbus, a man who murdered, raped and enslaved Black and Native peoples in the Americas," the petition says, external.

It has so far received almost 3,700 signatures, with some signees leaving surprising comments explaining their reasons for signing. "Did Christopher Columbus drop a 13x platinum album?" writes Manny A. "No. No he did not."

Last month, a similar petition was started to erect a statue of rapper Missy Elliott in Virginia, a move that received the support of rock band The Shins, among others. That now has over 32,000 signatures, external. Will any of them be a success? Given the political climate in the US right now, we wouldn't dare guess.

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BBC Radio 1

Yesterday, Chris Martin played day two of Radio 1's Live Lounge month from the rain-sodden hellhole that is Malibu. Yes, we might be slightly jealous.

Now you can check out his full performance above which includes a cover of Paul Simon's Graceland, to mark Radio 1's 50th birthday.

You can watch Paul himself perform the song on Later... with Jools in 2006.

Today's Live Lounge comes courtesy of Irish pop rockers The Script.

'Every cloud...' as they say.

Hours after Lady Gaga told fans in Montreal that she was unable to perform due to illness (above), she tweeted saying that she was sending pizza to fans camped outside her hotel.

Though she didn't deliver the pizzas personally, she did apparently wave to her fans, external from the hotel rooftop, who - needless to say - were delighted.

Gaga is due to resume her tour in Toronto on Wednesday night. Perhaps local pizzerias should stock up on extra anchovies just in case.

The Fader

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Lil Wayne is ok, according to his daughter - despite reportedly suffering a seizure in Chicago at the weekend.

Reginae Carter tweeted last night, "My dad is doing just fine everyone!", adding later, "Don't believe everything you hear".

The 34-year-old rapper, who has epilepsy, reportedly had a number of fits during the weekend and suffered another after arriving at A&E. He had been due to perform in Las Vegas on Sunday.

The star - real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr - has been regularly on the airwaves over the summer due to guesting on DJ Khaled's I'm The One with Justin Bieber, Quavo and Chance the Rapper.

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BBC 6 Music

Yesterday, we got the lineup for next month's 6 Music Live event at Maida Vale.

Between 2-6 October, artists including Morrissey - playing his first London show in two years - Mogwai, Alt J, Loyle Carner and Robert Plant will play the studio, with just 70 pairs of tickets for each show up for grabs via the 6 Music website.

Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai has just spoken to 6 Music DJ Lauren Laverne about their forthcoming gig, which will come almost 20 years after their first ever BBC radio session for John Peel in 1997.

The Scots post-rockers' new album Every Country's Sun came out last week and Stuart said their set will include songs old and new... even some they've forgotten.

Listen above.

The Sun

The great British art of streaking - normally reserved for sporting events - may be making a move into live music, after footage emerged of a naked young man interrupting Elbow's gig in Bristol at the weekend (you can watch it above - don't worry his "bits" are blurred).

The band were just two songs into their set, and playing fan favourite The Bones of You, when the naked chap somehow took to the stage.

To their credit, the band were unfazed, frontman Guy Garvey even waltzing cheek to cheek with the streaker before asking him to go. At one point the man removed his socks, and Guy seemed to pocket them. Here's hoping he got them back!

See more photos - if you must - here, external.

Elbow have just announced a series of arena concerts in February and March next year, external.

On Friday, Foo Fighters Dave Grohl was reunited with naked guy from the band's set at Glastonbury earlier this summer.

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Apple has surprised the music industry by cancelling its annual Apple Music festival, which brought stadium-sized acts like One Direction and Lady Gaga to London's Roundhouse.

The festival started in 2007 and typically ran for a month, with tickets given away through a raffle.

In recent years, the event had been scaled back to 10 nights, with last year's line-up including The 1975, Britney Spears and Chance The Rapper. Apple has not explained why the festival has come to an end.

Bands might not be too fussed about it. The festival's crowds were widely seen as less enthusiastic than regular concert-goers. In 2013, Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys even told the audience to "wake up", dedicating the song Snap Out Of it to them.

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A new 3D version of Michael Jackson's seminal 1983 video Thriller has had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The film's director John Landis presented the new edit revealing that MJ came up with the original idea for the film as he "wanted to be a monster".

Landis told reporters Michael first approached him about making the video because he liked An American Werewolf in London.

"Turns out he hasn't seen many horror films - they were too scary. I found him great," said Landis.

"He wanted zombies, but the big thing for Mike was turning into a monster."

The original 14-minute video, which you can watch above, premiered at a cinema in Los Angeles and had a sold-out three-week run.

Landis added: "My only disappointment is that Michael is not here to see [the new version] and hear it because I think he would love that."

Most people in their 30s get wished happy birthday by their mum and dad... maybe even their brother or sister if they remember.

Beyonce, on the other hand, is contacted by every a-list celebrity you can name.

Bey turned 36 yesterday and tributes poured in from the likes of Adele, Ellen and Bruno Mars:

Mark Ronson shared the love with a couple of his other friends, external - baseball legend Mike Piazza and comedian Kyle Mooney. Hopefully Beyonce doesn't mind sharing, otherwise they won't be talking much longer.

Jay-Z obviously didn't forget his wife's birthday and got a festival crowd at the weekend to sing Happy Birthday to her, external.

But perhaps the best tribute appeared on Beyonce's own website, external, where friends - including Michelle Obama and former Destiny's Child bandmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams - dressed up like Bey from her Formation video.

They asked people to use her birthday as an excuse to donate to the flood relief efforts in Bey's home town of Houston.

We forgot to wish her happy birthday ourselves, but hopefully she won't notice among the deluge. As comedian Kristen Schaal implied, she's surely not going to read every tribute, is she?

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The organisers of the "chaotic" Hope & Glory Festival in Liverpool, which was called off after just one day last month amid reports of overcrowding and acts axed at the last minute, have gone into liquidation owing nearly £900,000.

Liverpool City Council said it was "seeking recovery of costs associated with the clean-up operation" for the festival at Liverpool's St Georges Quarter.

Ticket selling websites said they had given full refunds to people with tickets for the cancelled day and a 50% refund for weekend ticket holders.

Tim Booth of the band James, who were on the bill, apologised to fans at the time calling the event "a mess, external". Other acts on the bill, which leaned heavily to early 2000s rock bands, included Ocean Colour Scene and Razorlight.

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Okay okay, we admit it, we forgot Beyonce's birthday on Monday.

Guess we are off her Christmas card list this year... Sorry, Bey.

Luckily lots of her friends remembered. That's friends like Adele, Gaga and Ellen - not the sort of friends we have, unfortunately - and we'll have a look at some of their warm tributes today.

Plus we have Mogwai on what they have planned for 6 Music Live, a 3D version of Michael Jackson's classic Thriller premieres in Venice, Coldplay's performance from yesterday's Live Lounge month and more from Mariah Carey who has shared her animated-self from a new film.

Oh, and Guy Garvey from Elbow dances cheek to cheek with a streaker at one of their gigs. Apologies to any children reading.