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  Fun lovin' rocker to perform DJ set with disco classics at city venue

  THE FORMER lead singer of 90s band Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Huey Morgan, will perform a DJ set filled with disco classics in Carlisle.

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  The person who got me through 2021: Huey Morgan comforted me amid a deluge of human waste

  The person who got me through 2021: Huey Morgan comforted me amid a deluge of human waste. I had plumbing problems and his radio show transported me from the faecal hellscape in my garden. It became the ideal soundtrack for my pandemic reality

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  Oti Mabuse and Vicky McClure sign up for Radio 2

  They have signed up for BBC Radio 2 shows as part of the station’s new spring season.

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  Huey Morgan's Latin Music Adventure: Ignore fun-lovin’ Huey’s wise-guy chatter, revel in the rhythms of Cuba

  Huey Morgan is in Cuba. Huey who? Huey is a native New Yorker and the frontman of Fun Lovin’ Criminals, whose music is a stewy brew of rock and hip-hop, plus Huey’s swagger.The swagger is the main bit of Huey’s other job, as a BBC Radio 6 Music DJ, where he plays exquisite deep cuts and splices them with wise-guy chatter. Huey can talk: as a talker, he is never knowingly understated.

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  BBC radio presenter to take break for 'heart upgrade'

  BBC Radio 2 has announced that their popular radio presenter, Johnnie Walker, is taking a break from the show to have a 'heart upgrade'. While Johnnie's heart condition was not disclosed, his wife, Tiggy Walker, wrote: "I've a bit of news about Johnnie. It seems his heart needs a bit of an upgrade. The bad news is he'll be off The Rock Show & SOT70's for 6 weeks. The good news – he'll be even better when he returns with all that extra oxygen pumping round his body!" Johnnie is receiving a 'hear

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  Fun Lovin' Criminals frontman Huey Morgan says drugs are 'propelling' popularity of trap music

  Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman Huey Morgan has claimed drugs have been fueling the popularity of trap music. Morgan, who plays guitar and sings in the rap-rock group, said depressants were “propelling” trap, a style of southern American hip hop, to the mainstream. The 50-year-old said it was “difficult” for him to listen to trap music because he doesn’t use those drugs.

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  Fun Lovin’ Criminals singer: Hopeless loop of drugs making people listen to trap

  Huey Morgan said cannabis and Xanax were behind the hip hop genre’s popularity.

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  OnBlackheath: Tickets, line-up and everything you need to know

  One of the most family-friendly music events of the year takes place this weekend, with OnBlackheath festival arriving in south east London. Thousands of music lovers will head to festival’s scenic site to enjoy a great selection of music, food and activities on September 8-9. Corinne Bailey Rae, De La Soul, Craig Charles and the Lightning Seeds also perform across the day.

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  New Year's Eve celebrations to go ahead despite Storm Dylan

  Edinburgh is expected to celebrate the new year with fireworks launched in the countdown to midnight. New year celebrations are being prepared as planned across the UK, despite Storm Dylan bearing down on the country bringing 80mph winds and the Met Office issuing four weather warnings. Organisers said Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations would go ahead, even though high winds were expected to batter the city on Sunday.

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  This week's best radio: remembering hip-hop history and partition

  It is 30 years this month since Eric B & Rakim released their album Paid in Full, which inaugurated the golden age of hip-hop. If you need reminding how remote that era is from today, subtracting the same 30 years from 1987 would take you to a world yet to experience Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock. Hip Hop Hooray (12 August, from 7am, 6 Music) is the faintly Crackerjack title given to 12 hours of programming celebrating this anniversary and its musical heritage, fronted by Mary Anne Hobbs, Hue

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