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Photos by Bao NguyenJust when I figure no one can top opening act Matt & Kim's Kim Schifino when it comes to 100-proof enthusiasm behind a kit, I'm introduced to Lily Allen's drummer-- easily the most entertaining part of last night's "secret" MySpace gig at NYC's Bowery Ballroom. Allen didn't introduce her four-man band by name (or acknowledge them much, really), so a nickname will have to suffice. Candidates: Death Jazz (based on his shirt), King Hippo (based on his gape), or Bozzer (based on his general Brit-rock journeyman vibe). Let's go with Bozzer.Bozzer was playing to about 500 people, but nobody told him that. In his mind, Bozzer was playing to a sea of Union Jacks cascading through a sold-out Wembley crowd. He was like a pre-accident version of Def Leppard's Rick Allen, Tommy Lee sans rotating rig, a force. He raised and crossed sticks before coming down hard on the crashes, added hi-hat flourishes that were never meant to be there, and generally acted like a fucking star. Which was nice, since Lily Allen's stage persona is more post-star. Which is a nice way of saying she stuck with a tipsy wobble emphasized by PG striptease moves the entire night. Very "AbFab" prequel. She makes fun of her own songs, i.e., "this is the big one from the album I [dripping sarcasm] love so much" before playing "Smile", "this one's quite boring" before "Him". She even made fun of her own making-fun intros: "I hate how I'm introducing everything like 'this next song...' like it's fucking story time."In between these preludes, she sang songs, mostly from her new album, It's Not Me, It's You. Some of the new songs are less than mean, and Lily's still getting used to being a sympathetic figure-- she looked hesitant without insults to work for her on "I Could Say" and "Who'd Have Known". She seemed more excited about an encore cover of Britney Spears' "Womanizer" than any of her own compositions. Chalk it up to artistic distance. Because while there's a kinship-- Ms. Spears' hit is all about insulting dudes, after all-- Lily probably wouldn't admit to being duped in the first place.Lily Allenread more
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"I wanted to make sure I got his girlfriend right"NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Actor Sebastian Stan attends the 2019 Skin Cancer Foundation's Champions For Change Gala at The Plaza Hotel on October 17, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)Marvel actor Sebastian Stan heard that Lily Allen was dating his friend David Harbo...
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"It's my responsibility just to let some people know that this incident happened."Lily Allen said Warner failed to act after she made them aware of assault claims last year. Lily Allen has said her record label “failed to act” after she informed them that she was sexually assaulted. Speaking to The Next Episode podcast, Alle...
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'No Shame' arrived last yearLily Allen has 'No Shame' at Boardmasters 2018Lily Allen has responded to reports that she has been dropped by her record label due to the performance of her last album, ‘No Shame‘. More: The NME Big Read – Lily Allen The singer-songwriter’s fourth full-length, which was release...
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Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, and Ghost all thrown their ticklers into the ringOh Rammstein. In 2009, the German group decided to release their ‘Love Is There For Everyone’ album with a special dildo box set: each of the six hot-pink sex toys was modelled on their own schlongs for the punter’s, erm, pleasure. Also included was a bottle of lub...
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And she revealed the news at a very appropriate placeLily Allen has revealed that she’s working on her own new range of sex toys. Speaking at the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall – the place she was conceived, she revealed – the singer told her news to the crowd. Read more: Lily Allen: “People try to reveal the mo...
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