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London's unmissable gigs and club nights this weekend, from The Last Dinner Party to Jamiroquai

Maddy Mussen rounds up the hottest music nights in London this week

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2025

“I was on my way to Vegas to marry a French boy, who was asleep on my lap, and I was listening to this song thinking, I'm living the dream. Then he woke up and said, I can't marry you.” Du Blonde on the eight songs that changed her life

From Joni Mitchell to David Bowie via Billy Bragg, Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa, here are eight songs that made Du Blonde the bold and brilliant artist that she is

Louder · Jan 20, 2025

English Teacher, Du Blonde, Nadine Shah and more join Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers and Sisters of Mercy on Bearded Theory festival bill

Louder · Jan 13, 2025

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"I was so traumatised by the music industry, severely depressed. To have the thing you love destroyed by other people is soul-destroying." How Du Blonde quit trying to please toxic men and music business scumbags, and started living her best life

"Being signed to record labels made me fall so out of love with making music that I almost stopped." The music industry needs more artists like Du Blonde, but Du Blonde doesn't need the music industry at all

Louder · Nov 19, 2024

"It's impossible not to feel thrilled by how brilliantly Du Blonde eviscerates demons from her past here." Du Blonde's Sniff More Gritty is 2024's most exhilarating, fabulous and fearless declaration of independence

Beth Jeans Houghton aka Du Blonde serves up one of 2024's most deliciously defiant albums with the brilliant Sniff More Gritty

Louder · Nov 15, 2024

Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty review – a gleefully self-sufficient affair

The Newcastle musician’s freewheeling, hook-heavy new album is a worthy follow-up to the one-woman wigout of Homecoming

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2024

“Every line in the song is something that has been personally said to me by folks in the industry.” Next Big Thing, Du Blonde's new single with Skin from Skunk Anansie, is a scathing exposé of music industry sexism

Watch the video for Next Big Thing, the latest single from Du Blonde's forthcoming Sniff More Gritty album

Louder · Oct 11, 2024

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"It’s Christmas and we’re all lying, to make up for the chasm between us": Listen to Du Blonde's fabulously cynical Christmas single It's Christmas and I'm Crying

Sick of Christmas already? This might be your new favourite song

Louder · Dec 22, 2023

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