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That's about it for us today

Scroll back down for round-ups from Green Man and V Festivals, The Shins support a petition for a Missy Elliott statue, new videos from The Big Moon and Wyclef Jean and the Foo Fighters are new bezzies with Rick Astley.

We'll be back again tomorrow by which time Bonnie Tyler will have performed her 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart during the total eclipse of the sun in the US.

Forever's gonna start tonight.

*not The Fugees.

Wyclef Jean, external has reunited with his fictional Carnival Band (basically, Wyclef himself in several different guises) in the new video for catchy new summer jam What Happened to Love.

The video, which you can watch above, opens with Wyclef's former manager telling him to "put the band back together."

"Not the Fugees, not yet. The Fugees will come," he adds.

Maybe this is a subtle hint for future plans?...

What Happened to Love is from Clef's upcoming Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee, due out on 15 September.

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Music News LIVE reporter

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If you've been reading today you'll have seen we've talked statues, rock stars, politics and terror with many of the music stars on show at Green Man festival.

But the burning question on everbody's lips this weekend regarded The Green Man himself, who met a fiery end last night.

Now he's gone, exactly who is your favourite 'green man'?

Watch below to see what many of the acts said. Well worth watching this one to the end to see how Sleaford Mod Jason interpreted our rather open-ended question...

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She has already released a video, external for the song Swish Swish but now Katy Perry has recruited the likes of Brooklyn 99's Terry Crews and Glee's Jenna Ushkowitz for a new video for the song.

This time it's a grudge basketball match featuring the Sheep against the Tigers (a reference from the song's lyrics).

The track was seen as something of a Taylor Swift diss, but Katy has since extended an olive branch to her fellow singer.

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At least they do in new detective video for their track of the same name taken from their critically-lauded debut album Love In the 4th Dimension.

The London band played their first gig on UK soil since becoming Mercury Nominated, at Green Man on Friday night, after Hinds (scroll down for more from those chicas).

Actually make that 'M.N'd.'

The band endeared themselves to the locals by busting out a mid-set cover of Welsh gal Bonnie Tyler's classic power ballad. You know the one I mean; think similarly moon-themed.

Singer Juliette Jackson said "everything is feeling a bit surreal at the moment", after they landed back in the country the morning of the gig following their "really fun" first co-headline tour of the States, alongside Marika Hackman.

Crossing the Atlantic in a hurry to smash their Green Man set seems to have really got Juliette in a bit of tizz.

She said: "This morning, this is how discombobulated I was, I got up and was all ready and had a cup of tea and packed my suitcase and got ready to go...before I realised I was only wearing my underwear!"

Check out their latest video above. Eyes peeled for Marika's appearance as a villainous dognapper...

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The Foo Fighters managed to Rickroll , externalan entire festival audience at the weekend by bringing British singer Rick Astley on stage.

For those who can't remember, 'Rickrolling' became an internet meme whereby people would send links to each other which, upon being clicked, would take the user to Rick's video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

Dave and co went one further by taking Rick onstage at the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo, Japan.

“We just learned this today. Ladies and gentleman, would you please welcome our new best friend, Rick Astley,”

Rick happened to be the festival lineup and joined the Foos in a mashup of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit and his famous track.

Go to Variety for more, external, sadly we can't host the video here as, perhaps carried away by the moment, Rick does a particularly sweary swear.

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Music News LIVE reporter

So clearly The Shins, Sleaford Mods, Hinds and The Big Moon all had fun performing at Green Man Festival (scroll down).

But what about the punters?

Well judging by the sunglasses, head-wear and inflatable furniture on display around site we'd say some of you had a fairly enjoyable weekend too.

We found Liam and Zoe, Rachel and Jilly and Ed and Joe (above) all down near a sun-soaked Mountain Stage on Friday and they told us why they love Green Man so...

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Music News LIVE reporter

Nottingham post-punk electro double act Sleaford Mods pulled a large crowd out of the rain and into the Far Out Stage tent at the final night of Green Man.

The band were well represented at the event as their new film Bunch of Kunst was being shown and frontman Jason Williamson also appeared - following Billy Bragg - in conversation, before their main show.

Luckily, he had time for a chat and told us that despite their success on the festival circuit with incendiary politically-charged tracks like B.H.S, he and bandmate Andrew Fearn really don't consider themselves to be a rock stars...or, would you believe, intend to shock people.

"I think the idea of the rock star died with the last century.

"Alright fair enough, you've got your pop bands who live that life - the biggies. You know what i mean, who appeal to a different market.

He added: "It's certainly a device that belonged more to the last century than this one."

Before his big gig, Jason also paid tribute to the late Bruce Forsyth, calling him "one of the good guys", said he had "a lot of respect" for Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn but was less keen on idea of a 'Tory Glastonbury'.

That's after Conservative MP George Freeman announced his intention to host a Conservative ideas festival, following Mr Corbyn's appearance on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm this summer.

Last month, Freeman Tweeted: "Why is it the left who have all the fun in politics?"

Jason doesn't agree: "We're not having any fun are we? It's not so much the left, but people aren't having fun.

"Who's having fun? The people at a festival - but that's only for three days.

"It's scoffing at something menial and ignoring the realities.

"I think it's a positive thing that Jeremy Corbyn appeared at Glastonbury...but it hasn't really changed anything."

Sleaford Mods are currently "thinking about ideas and trying things" for the follow-up to this year's English Tapas but it's still early days and you'll have to continue to digest that musical meal for a while yet until your next one is fully cooked.

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Away from Green Man, it was the V Festival weekend in Essex and Staffordshire.

Headliners included Pink (above) and Jay Z, who included a tribute to the late Linkin Park frotnman Chester Bennington, who died last month.

They recorded a mashup album called Collision Course together in 2004.

Jay asked fans in Stafford: "Can you guys light it up tonight for Chester?

"Please make some noise so he can hear you all the way in heaven tonight!"

Meanwhile BBC Essex tweeted the audience singing along to Pink, who has had rave reviews for her debut as a festival headliner in the UK.

Grime superstar Stormzy played also took to social media to share his post-show thoughts calling it "one of the greatest of my career, external"

He was joined on stage by a 20-plus choir.

Lots of bands on the line-up including Busted below, took to social media following their sets.

Newsbeat spoke to The Vamps about their show, with singer Brad revealing:"I came here when I was 16, it was my first festival. It was messy and I got sunburnt.

"It's weird coming back and playing, it is kind of like a full circle."

Plus they round up many of the weird things that you see at music festivals.

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ITV and Simon Cowell's firm Syco Entertainment have announced a new music show which is aimed squarely at the heartstrings.

Your Song is set for a prime-time slot this autumn and will celebrate the achievements of real people, who will be given a performance from their favourite artist.

It will be hosted by Big Brother's Emma Willis, but no word as yet as to which artists will be taking part.

"I think there'll be plenty of tears, hugs and happiness," said Emma.

Sounds like one of our shifts on Music News LIVE...

A small audience of Muse fans were treated to a 'By Request' charity show at the weekend.

The Devonshire space rockers performed for around 2,000 fans at the charity show at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire.

Ticket-holders got the chance to vote for their top 10 favourite tracks to be included on the setlist.

Check out some fan-shot footage below

Meanwhile, singer Matt Bellamy has been sharing the tunes that have had a profound influence on him with Radio 1's Daniel P Carter.

You can listen at the top for the full interview in which he reveals his first album, external.

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But you'll have to travel all the way to Texas if you want to see it.

The singer has announced a new site-specific piece called Scales which will take place on 8 October near another sculpture installation called 15 Untitled Works in Concrete in Marfa, Texas.

Solange said “Donald Judd's profound work has had tremendous impact on the way in which I see the world."

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Bros returned to the stage at the weekend for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss (minus bass player-turned music exec Craig Logan) performed at a sold-out O2 Arena in London on Saturday.

The band, who open the show with their number one hit I Owe You Nothing (below), last played in London 28 years earlier at Wembley Stadium.

Singer Matt told fans: "We've always had to push a little bit harder than everybody else in some ways but do you know why we've been able to continue to do that?

"It's because of you guys and that's the only reason."

He added: "We would love for this to be the first of many, many concerts."

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The Shins had a lot of fun at Green Man.

The Albuquerque (think Breaking Bad) band described the Welsh festival as "super-awesome" and were chuffed just to "get to see PJ Harvey for free."

They performed ahead of Polly on the Mountain Stage last night and were delighted to discover that a petition in their native USA to replace a Confederate monument with statue of hip hop star Missy Elliott, external had been signed by thousands.

It's following violent clashes between white supremacists and protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia after the announcement of the planned removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

In a letter to the mayor, Virginia resident Nathan Coflin proposed that it should instead be replaced by one of the Virginia-born rapper.

He said: “Getting this statue put up will be a lot of work and you may ask yourself is it worth it?

“I say yes and ask you to join me in letting us work it. Together we can put white supremacy down, flip it and reverse it.

“Missy is all of us. Missy is everything the Confederacy was not.”

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Now Shins singer James Mercer has said he would happily sign the petition, which already has over 3,000 names on it.

"That's amazing!

"We're terrible fans of hers, we love her."

Bassist Yuuki Matthews added: "Whoever is doing that, make it happen!

"She should definitely have a statue."

The now Portland-based band played tracks from new album Heartworms, as well as cult indie hits like New Slang and a cracking cover of Tom Petty's American Girl.

The American men were less than pleased with the actions of their compatriots in Charottesville, as well as the response of their own President who apportioned blame to both sides of the dispute.

James added: "I was shocked people would go on a parade for white power and just being proud to be white.

"That shocked me. I didn't even know that was a thing. It's disgusting."

Yuuki chipped in: "It's pretty devastating to be honest and for the person who's in charge of your entire country supporting that..."

Johnny Cash's family last week also released a statement distancing themselves from the far-right protester seen wearing one of his T-shirts and The Shins are taking a similar stance.

"Wouldn't it suck if you saw one of those in a Shins shirt?," said James.

"We don't need them!"

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Music News LIVE reporter

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More from Green Man festival now where Spanish garage rockers Hinds brought ramshackle charm and catchy pop melodies to the Far Out Stage on Friday night.

The four girls from Madrid say they will have no qualms about returning to the Las Ramblas; one of the scenes of last week's terror attacks in Barcelona in their native Spain.

The hunt for the driver who killed 13 people in the Catalan city has been extended across Europe, officials say.

But Hinds, whose friend was caught up in the attack, are refusing to live in fear.

Singer Carlotta Cosials (above) said: "We were driving in the van and it came through our Whatsapp, with our group of friends. We saw the link with the news and the first thing we did was check out friends in Barcelona were ok.

"Actually one of our friends, she didn't get hurt, but she got locked in the one of the markets.

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"We've been in Barcelona so many times, we love it. We have good friends in Barcelona and they love Madrid too and we'll continue to share holidays."

Fellow frontwoman Ana Garcia Perrote added:

"It was the same with Gay Pride. World Gay Pride this year was in Madrid and you have that thought 'this is the spot for everyone', because the media makes you feel scared. But there's no way you can avoid that and stay home.

"Our manager is also a booker of big festivals in Spain and he was saying they've changed all the security - even though this hasn't happened in a Spanish musical festival - and made the entrances so people can't drive through and added metal detectors."

Carlotta concluded: "This kind of security will be there forever from now on at music festivals and I think that's actually good."

The band are currently in the process of re-mixing their forthcoming second album; the follow-up to 2016's Leave Me Alone, and did play one new track for the Green Man crowd.

The new record was due to be ready in May, but "life is life", as Carlotta puts it, so you'll have to wait a little longer yet. The singer said: "I think we have better songs now"...and who are we to disagree?

Billboard magazine

Massive big up to singer Kesha who has landed her second US number one album with Rainbow.

It sold 116,000 equivalent copies, of which 89,000 were in traditional album sales with the remainder streamed.

It was the second-largest week by a woman in 2017, with only Katy Perry's Witness coming ahead of it.

In a tweet earlier this morning, Kesha, who has been involved a bitter dispute with her former producer whom she accuses of sexually assaulting her (he denies the claims), said that in recent times "music was simply a coping tool".

You can check out her cover of The Animals' House of the Rising Sun backed by the Roots above.

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So, did you guess it from our blatantly obvious clue then? Did you?

Yep, Harry E Styles the man with the hair of an angel and the tatts of a sailor will follow Adele and Michael Buble and star in a one-off entertainment show for BBC One.

Harry Styles at the BBC will be hosted by Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw (who else?) and Harry will perform tracks from his recent number one debut album.

It will also be filmed in front of a live studio audience in Manchester, not far from where Harry hails in Cheshire, and will be broadcast in November.

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A field full of largely drenched music fans watched on in awe as PJ Harvey delivered her only performance of the year on these shores at the Green Man festival, held in a picturesque national park in Wales' Brecon Beacons.

The two-time Mercury winner, who followed The Shins and Conor Oberst on the Mountain Stage, played tracks from her 2016 number one album The Hope Demolition Project and a few old classics too from Let England Shake and 50 Ft Queenie, external from her Rid of Me album

Listen again to Polly Jean's live performance in full from last night's 6 Music show with Tom Ravenscroft.

Once PJ was done, the crowds all moved over to the Far Out field for the annual midnight burning of the 'Green Man' himself.

He looked like this before, by the way...

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Shame really, such a handsome chap.

From a sacrificial burning to a druid blessing, via weekend headliners Ryan Adams, Future Islands and PJ, here's some images from a top weekend of music, art and culture in South Wales.

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Welcome back to another edition of Music News LIVE.

It's been a big weekend of music, what with that man of the moment Stormzy wowing the crowds at V festival plus PJ Harvey and The Shins among the performers at Green Man in Wales.

Plus 80s boyband Bros played their 25 year reunion show at the O2, Kesha's album tops the US chart, the Foo Fighters rick-roll an entire Japanese festival and a One Direction member is getting his own BBC special.

Clue: it's the one who has released his own solo material.