That's your lot from us us today from what ended up being an unintended culinary feast from Loyle's cooking school, via Krept and Konan's new restaurant to the rise of fall of Milli Vanilla...erm Vanilli.

Scroll down for more tasty new music from Frank Turner, Parquet Courts, plus a Blossoms mashup, Chvrches share tales of Dave Stewart's daily martini hour and Derby MC Eyes is our Newbie Tuesday artist who is mixing equal measures of grime and sport into something rather delicious.

We'll leave you with this delectable little number from Kelis (above) from 2014.

That's the spirit SuRie.

That last time the UK won was in 1997, when Katrina and the Waves shone a light into every corner of the competiton in Dublin.

Now, the Annie Lennox lookalike will represent GB in Lisbon on Saturday 12 May.

She's just been on the BBC News Channel claiming her track can go down a Storm - literally.

"Anything can go at Eurovision - so why not Storm?"

She added: "All I can do is focus on my performance and doing myself proud."

The UK have won the tournament five times in total.

Abba won the 1974 Eurovision war for their native Sweden with the alternative battle of Waterloo and, on Friday, revealed they shall return later this year (48 years later) with two new tracks.

The GB hopeful, who is off on tour after the event, it's keen to hear what direction the legendary foursome will go in.

"It's amazing news, what a legendary group.

"I can't wait to hear what they do."

Good luck in Portugal SuRie and remember - the winner takes it all...

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UK rap team Krept and Konan are opening their own fast food restaurant in Croydon, south London.

Its called Crepes and Cones, which is kind of funny, you have to admit.

Writing on Instagram, Casyo 'Krept' Johnson wrote: "Honestly, [I’ve] put my blood sweat and tears into this."

Should give the milkshakes a bit of a flavoursome zing...

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The former Dr Feelgood guitarist and more lately, SerIlyn Payne, in Game of Thrones has been telling Radio 2's Simon Mayo about a secret skill of his that might have come in handy on set.

Handy that is, if his character - the mute knight and royal executioner - hadn't had his tongue chopped off.

The musician, who beat terminal pancreatic cancer in 2014, is pretty good at reciting Icelandic sagas.

Listen above,

The English folk rocker spoke to us yesterday about his forthcoming new album Be More Kind, which lands in full on Friday.

Frank said he no longer writes sad love songs as he's all loved up but he is ready to tackle world politics and the help make America great again.

Which is good of him.

Check out new single Little Changes below.

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Which is ironic really given the sheer volume of tweets the rapper has sent in the last week or so.

Mrs K-West has been giving a full and frank interview with US TV chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and revealed a rather surprising house rule.

Kim told Ellen; "[Kanye] always talks about how we should not have our phones first thing in the morning.

"And in the house when we're with the kids, let's not have our phones. It's our rule that we really try to live by."

Well, wherever Kanye is tweeting from, he is doing it A LOT, as regular readers of MNL will know. The rapper's wife admitted that she is as confused as the rest of us over his latest social media onslaught.

"I didn't even know he got his Twitter again - until I started seeing tweets come in from other people, retweeting them," Kim said.

"I was like, 'Wait, is this real?' At night, he came in and was like, 'Did you see my tweets??!'"

One tweet in particular (out of the many million) caught Kim's eye and demanded a response.

"I was very confused about that one," Kim admitted.

"What did he mean?," asked Ellen.

"I don't know... it didn't mean EVERYTHING," Kim said, with slight uncertainty in her voice.

"But you live with him..." persisted Ellen.

"Yeah, it didn't mean me..." she says.

Hmmm - let's hope so....

Read more: 11 things we learned from Kim Kardashian's interview on Ellen

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We kicked off May Day (that's today by the way - can you believe it?) with a new music video from Led Zep legend Robert Planet.

Well there's plenty more where that came from so let's have it, starting with 2014 Mercury Prize-winners Young Fathers.

The Scots hip hop act have shared a new video for their track Toy, taken from their new album Cocoa Sugar.

The video contains some "silly little boys" acting as world leaders.

Interpret that as you wish.

Sadly, you'll have to find it yourself as there's a naughty swearword. We'd have expected better from a father but there you go.

Next up, Brooklyn indie band Parquet Courts are searching for their missing guitarist after a particularly messy looking carnival in their video for Mardis Gras Beads.

Thankfully he turns up with seconds to spare to knock out an effortless riff at a live gig in a pub.

The track will feature on the New York four-piece's seventh album Wide Awake!, which is out on 18 May.

Last but not least in this little audio-visual interlude are Aussie pop rockers 5 Seconds of Summer.

This is another once with lots of flashing lights in it, as the lads enjoy a trip around Paris before a stylishly-shot live show.

We'd regonise that tower anywhere.

Youngblood is the opening title track from their third album which drops on 2 June.

BBC Radio 5 live

Back in the early 1990s, the music world let out a collective gasp when it was revealed Grammy-winning chart toppers Milli Vanilli didn't actually sing any of their songs,

Comprised of models and dancers Fab Morven and Rob Pilatus, the duo, who formed in Munich, mimed to all of their big hits like Girl You Know It's True (below).

The big reveal, which came via their manager, left their reputation in tatters and a few years later Rob died from a drug overdose.

Now Fab (above left) has been speaking to 5 live about how hard it was to keep the secret.

"People want to talk to you, people want to have you in interviews, obviously we had very thick accents at the time so the pressure was mounting."

Listen to the full interview.

Radio Times

MC Grindah and his crew have announced they are moving on after five series.

But before then, the final series of the Bafta-winning mockumentary will premiere on BBC Two, as well as BBC Three.

Music won't be the same without them but let's take the opportunity to remember some of their finest moments, including some 'lyrical surgery' in the Live Lounge (above) and a hook-up with Ed 'the gingerbread man sex symbol' Sheeran for Red Nose Day (below).

Big boots to fill.

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Lily has been telling fellow singer George Ezra - on his podcast, external - how "isolated" she felt following the arrest of her stalker.

In 2016, Alex Gray was detained indefinitely under the mental health act after sending abusive letters and breaking into her home over a seven year plus period.

The 32-year-old said; “I had a stalker about two and a half years ago, and it was a really horrendous experience.

“He broke into my house, and it later transpired that he did intend to kill me. That really spun me out.

"When a crime is committed, their point of reference to how serious it is, is how the police take it.”

The Londoner, who said she has channeled the experience into her forthcoming album No Shame - out in June - added: "I just became incredibly isolated.

BBC Radio 1

What's not to love about this?

Stockport's finest + Rowetta from the Happy Mondays + a vocoder = Live Lounge magic.

The lads, who earlier today told Newsbeat that you "don't have to sell your soul for success" (scroll down) have been mixing up two indie dancefloor fillers during their fourth appearance in that most esteemed of musical rooms.

Check out their cover above and a snippet of their new single I Can't Stand It below.

If you missed The Streets joyous comeback tour over the past couple of weeks then

1. Don't worry as we can fill you in on what happened, and...
2. Fear not as you'll get a second crack at seeing the seminal UK electro garage hip hop act early next year.

Mike Skinner has announced The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light part two, taking in Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Bournemouth and London in January and February.

So if you want to put on your Classics and have a little dance then check out the full details above.

Kev Geoghegan
Music News LIVE reporter

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How do you get a football club interested in helping release a track you've written about their star forward?

Can't be easy, when that club is Liverpool and that star is PFA Player of the Year Mo Salah

But, according to Derby grime artist Eyez, it was pretty straightforward.

"I hit up Liverpool's social accounts," explains the 25-year-old..

"He is the man, I got into contact with Liverpool and they're going to post it, I haven't heard from Mo but his agent is really loving it, I'm going to try and get him in the video."

And why not - you can check out a snippet below, it also answers the age of old question of, 'What rhymes with Mo Salah?'

"I've got this weird plan to mix sports and music," Eyez continues. "So I've done a track about Joe Joyce the boxer and I'm going to perform it at the Haye vs Bellew fight on Saturday in front of 30,000 people.

"I'm trying to break boundaries that no grime artists are doing. I've also done a song for Adam Peaty the swimmer - he's from Derby not far from me.

"I'm going to get him into the video, we were going to make it funny like me swimming against him, maybe get him on the mic".

You can forgive Eyez some lofty ambitions as he is making waves in a musical genre that is more traditionally associated with London.

There are of course notable exceptions of the likes of Manchester's Bugsy Malone and Birmingham's Dapz on the Map - who supported Skepta on tour.

A regular freestyle battler, Eyez led a team from Derby to win Redbull’s Grime-A-Side tournament in 2016.

Whilst he sells out shows in his hometown and as far afield as Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona and Dubai, Eyez admits selling tickets in the grime capital can be a challenge.

"A lot of people don't see Derby as a city, for them it's just countryside and grime is from the streets - I think a lot of people in London appreciate I come from Derby and respect me but some people think they can't relate to you.

"From such a small city as Derby it's hard for some people to come to terms that there's a rapper from here, let alone a grime MC but abroad they don't know the difference."

But he says hailing from the midlands does have its benefits, not least, because it makes him that much hungrier to succeed.

"Playing a gig can cost me £100 where it probably costs most London artists a ticket on the underground.

"I probably work harder there than I do at home because I need to prove myself and make my name.

Independent artist Eyez released his latest EP Square One in February, with the first single Innit (above).

"The video only cost me about £80, maybe £100 because I filmed it in Sheffield and I had to get the train but it didn't cost much, we rented out the derelict building for an hour."

Just a couple of years back, he was still working full time, in a call centre and then a warehouse in a DIY store.

"I've been doing this for about ten years but properly for about five years since my daughter was born because that was a kick up the bum.

"Maybe the last two years, the money has meant that I didn't need to work, I could quit my job."

Despite having that ethos of independence which defines grime, from artists like Stormzy to Skepta, Eyes says that signing with a major label would allow him to realise his creative dream.

"I need more, I'm 25 now and I'm trying to make the quality good so having an £80 video looks alight, but it don't look the best.

"What I have in my head is not impossible but it's very hard to do it independently - I'd say 80 percent of grime artists are coming from places where money is an issue, no-one has those kinds of funds.

"Most of my friends who rap never see that kind of money and it is life changing but recently grime has a lot of different people, you could be from Derby like me or an eight-bedroom house somewhere else it doesn't matter as long as your telling your story.

"I always had the thought [grime] would work and believed it could happen form me, otherwise I wouldn't have done it for so long."

Read Newbie Tuesday #24: Angie - Swedish pop siren who is changing her ways

Synth pop rockers and internet search term trailblazers Chvrches release their darkly-titled third album Love is Dead at the end of the month, ahead of their performance at Radio 1's Biggest Weekend in Swansea.

The band have been talking BBC Music reporter Mark Savage through the political heartbreak album.

The Scots band recently relocated to the US and singer Lauren has explained how the move informed the record.

The band worked with Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics and although the songs he produced didn't make the album, his unconventional techniques had a profound impact.

"Every evening he does Martini hour," said Lauren.

"And one night, out of nowhere, he just turned around and said, 'You know, I think that you want to be this punk rock Joan of Arc of pop music - so why don't you just stop complaining and do it already?'

"I thought 'I don't know if I feel like that, but if he can see it in me, I should probably think about it.'"

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Thousands of fans turned out to see noughties boyband *NSYNC get their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday.

The band - made up of Justin Timberlake and the other four (just joking JC, Lance, Joey and Chris) - were introduced by stars including Ellen Degeneres, who joked: "Your lyrics inspire me every day.

"Listen to these lyrics please. 'Dirty Pop, Baby bet you can't stop, I know you, like this dirty pop, this must be pop.'

"It's like you took the emotions out of my heart and you spoke them out loud."

JT added: "I don't think I can put into words what the four of you mean to me. Just through hard times, just through unbelievable times, through times we were going 'what the...?' and I just love all of you so much.

"Don't touch me."

We think he was having fun with that last quip but you can watch it all for yourselves, external (be warned it's a long video).

Instead, why don't you make do with this banger from 18 years ago.

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Stockford pop rockers Blossoms will be hoping for their second number one come Friday evening.

The five-piece let Newsbeat inside their rehearsal space and recording studio during the making of LP#2; Cool Like You.

Watch above as they explain why you don't need to "sell your souls for success" and how singer/songwriter Tom Ogden's nut nearly went flake during their last tour.

The band will be in the Live Lounge later with fellow Mancunian Rowetta - of Happy Mondays fame.

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Releases by David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen helped boost Record Store Day sales to a new high in 2018.

Vinyl sales in the UK were up 16% year-on-year, according to the Official Charts Company, with 60,000 albums and 30,000 singles sold.

It was the same in the US, where 733,000 vinyl albums were bought in the week ending 26 April, breaking a sales record for the format.

David Bowie's Welcome To The Blackout was among the most in-demand releases and entered the official Top 40 at number 22.

It was also the second best-seller in America, just behind a red vinyl edition of Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits.

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The Irish band have hardly been prolific of late, having put out their last new music in 2014 but they are still most definitely still a thing.

Well, for the time being at least.

Ronan and the lads have announced that after a quarter of a century in the game, their forthcoming seventh studio album and summer tour will be their last.

"We've had twenty-five amazing years and we promise you that this will be our biggest and best year yet," they wrote, in a statement of words to take your heart away.

What? Better than the year that Keith joined the cast of Corrie? Impossible.

The Sun reports, external that late bandmate Stephen Gately will appear on the record, which will allegedly include contributions from Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith.

Shane Lynch expressed his disappointment at the press for "jumping the gun" with the news (not us Shane).

But on a more positive note he added: "We're all very very excited about it.

"We know you guys have been so loyal for the last 25 years and you deserve one last BOOM from the Boyzone world."

No matter what happens in the years to come, you can catch the manband one final time at gigs across the country in June and July, including at York Racecourse and Kew Gardens.

The album is expected to be out later in the year.

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The singer - who has been accused of sexual misconduct - has called the Time's Up Movement's support for the #MuteRKelly campaign "unjust and off-target".

Labels, businesses and music venues promoting Kelly, whose real name is Robert Kelly, are to be targeted.

The decision, led by the Women of Colour (WOC) group, includes director Ava Duvernay and singer Janelle Monae.

A statement urged women to dream "free from sexual assault, abuse and predatory behaviour".

"We demand appropriate investigations and inquiries into the allegations of R. Kelly's abuse made by women of colour and their families for over two decades now."

The renewed focus on Kelly follows a recent BBC Three documentary, which attempted to break down an alleged "wall of silence" around historic sexual abuse allegations involving Kelly.

The Bump n' Grind singer's management have responded saying: "We understand criticising a famous artist is a good way to draw attention to those goals – and in this case, it is unjust and off-target".

They go on to say: "We will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture."

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