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The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – inventive Radiohead side project risks eclipsing the real thing

Despite all the lyrical disquiet, there is a lovely sense of ease to the Smile’s second album – and some of the best music Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have put their names to in at least a decade

The Guardian - UK

“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen

Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg

Louder

Smile 2 casts Aladdin's Naomi Scott as the horror sequel's lead

Scott takes over from Sosie Bacon

Total Film

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"I've lived, I really have. I've done it all. I love the fact that I make people happy": The life and times of rock's most outrageous star, Freddie Mercury

How a shy kid from Zanzibar helped propel Queen to superstardom

Louder

"I have never heard a sound like that, before or since": In 1967, Queen’s Brian May was an unknown student. Then he booked Jimi Hendrix to play his college for £1000 and his life changed forever

A pre-fame Brian May got to watch Jimi Hendrix play a student ball from 10 feet away

Louder

Queen were poor. Their singer sounded like a "bleating sheep". Their music was greeted with indifference. But they believed in themselves, and their debut album would make the years of pain worthwhile

One minute Queen were taking the bus and watching their Top Of The Pops performance in a shop window: the next they had the world at their feet

Louder

Skindred have just released the banger-packed, life-affirming soundtrack to everybody’s summer

Benji’s banger brigade hit new heights as Skindred release liberating eighth album Smile

Louder

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Skindred: Smile review – Welsh ragga-metallers mix a joyous sonic cocktail

One minute it’s riffs and political rage, the next it’s summery reggae. Thanks to their craft – and frontman Benji Webbe’s joie de vivre – the band’s barrier-breaking album is a treat

The Guardian - UK

Radiohead and Sons of Kemet side-project The Smile release live favourite Bending Hectic

A fan of Radiohead’s 1995 classic rock record The Bends? Step this way...

Evening Standard

Haritha on social empowerment track, offers mental health support to girls, women students

Haritha, the women student wing of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), is evolving into an organisation for social empowerment. Under its new leadership, Haritha has launched an ambitious life-support programme titled Supporting Mantra to Initiate Life Enlightenment (SMILE).

The Hindu

104-year-old great gran smashes 10 mile cycle and 100 mile walk

Amazing Nan Aitken took on the challenge to help the Smile Centre bag a £20,000 prize

Daily Record

Lily Allen looks unrecognisable as she discusses being 'four years clean and sober'

Smile singer Lily Allen, 37, sat down with Holly Willoughby and Joel Dermott on Wednesday's edition of This Morning and spoke about how much her life has changed

Daily Mirror

Pitchfork Music Festival 2023: The Smile, Big Thief and Bon Iver set to headline music fest; full lineup announced

Festival tickets — three-day passes ($219) and single-day passes ($109) — are now on sale.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lily Allen unrecognisable as she ditches signature dark hair for blunt blonde bob

Smile singer Lily Allen wowed fans when she showed off her new hair on Instagram having ditched her signature black fringe for an edgy blonde bob

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Amazon axes fundraising scheme as thousands of small UK charities to miss out on cash

The Amazon Smile scheme has been in place since 2013 and has dished out more than £18.5million to thousands of small charities across the country in that time

The National (Scotland)

How affordable virtual-reality tech could give Scottish theatre new life

LEGENDARY football manager Jim McLean was notorious for his glum demeanour and angry outbursts.

The Guardian - UK

Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a blank slate to explore’

The Sons of Kemet drummer explains how he’s keeping his cool while launching his debut record, working with Jonny and Thom from Radiohead – and preparing for the birth of his second child

Reason

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Liverpool Echo

Dad's marathon undertaking to help city children living in poverty

James Winters said he's determined "not to miss a day" as families in poverty "can't take a night off"

Birmingham Post

Plastics firm that turns yoghurt pots and bottles into creative products is planning to double in size

Smile Plastics creates decorative panels and worktops

Edinburgh Live

Scots charity supporting mental health issues wins Charity of the Year 2022

SMILE Counselling offers a free counselling service to people from 11-24 years-old throughout West Lothian. Their CEO said they were "overwhelmed" when they won the award.

Daily Record

West Lothian's SMILE Counselling celebrates Charity of the Year win

The charity young people suffering mental health issues or problems at school or home

Daily Record

Half of young mental health charity clients are experiencing suicidal thoughts as waiting lists for CAMHS grows

Mental health support for young people in West Lothian can be inaccessible, with the waiting list for CAMHS often extending beyond four months.

Liverpool Echo

Bootle entrepreneur who is making a difference for his hometown

James created the SMILE project in 2021

The Guardian - UK

The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention review – Radiohead spinoff offers no alarms, some surprises

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood team with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner for a debut that may not be head-spinningly different, but is still exceptional

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