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Two of the sites, GetMeIn and Seatwave, have since been closed down. The two largest players, StubHub and Viagogo, are still trading despite multiple complaints from consumers, the condemnation of MPs and an abortive lawsuit against Viagogo from the consumer regulator. … [Read more...] about Touts found guilty of fraud over £11m ticket reselling scheme

This involved going from something spangly and loud to an aesthetic that feels introverted and autobiographical. His first collection, for AW18, told the story of his own sexual awakening. “I grew up straight and was in love with a girl for the longest time,” he says. But while working at Balmain he read Patti Smith’s Just Kids, the tale of her love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe, which moved him. “He was in love with her but he had a curiosity to see guys and it turned out he was gay. I was so interested in the fact he was exploring his sexuality through photography.” … [Read more...] about ‘Oh my goodness!’: from jockstraps to codpieces, how menswear got sexy

Alongside “mediums of love”, as Amber describes the songs on We Are King, sits The Greatest, an irresistibly buoyant salute to Muhammad Ali. “We were watching old interviews with him while we were writing the song and the stuff he was talking about is still very prevalent in society,” Paris says, her tone now less upbeat. “It’s heartbreaking but also inspiring. He had everything at his doorstep but he was willing to say, ‘If I’m not going to be treated equally with my fellow Americans, then you can take it all back.’ He took his celebrity and used it for the agenda of equality and that’s the biggest reason we made a song about Muhammad Ali. The motivation behind the song was to say, ‘You’re great. You’re unapologetically great, without a reason. Don’t be afraid to say that you’re great.’” … [Read more...] about King: the soul trio with Stevie Wonder on their side

King’s own victory run is a quiet, internet-age fairytale. In 2011 they put some songs up on Soundcloud. Before too long, their squelchy, idiosyncratic, time-capsule sound had gone, if not viral, then straight to all the right ears thanks to Twitter. Questlove, Erykah Badu and Prince declared themselves fans after King’s EP, The Story, came out. Stevie Wonder looms large in King’s sound, but a dreamlike, utopian ambience and psychedelic nuances – “We’re gonna keep on riding till we reach the mothership,” they crooned on The Story – complete the picture of a band out of time. … [Read more...] about King: We Are King review – an ambient dream of a debut

Pettibon isn't like Lawrence Weiner, turning words into conceptual sculptures, nor does he tend towards the terse one- or two-liners of Ruscha, Bruce Nauman or Christopher Wool, or the retold gags of Richard Prince. And, unlike Sean Landers, he isn't soliloquising his badly spelt life away on canvas. One of his drawings of the Holy Bible, a solid black slab, is dedicated to Ad Reinhardt, whose black-on-black paintings implied a spirituality that was hard to reconcile with his cartoon commentaries and hilarious essays deflating the art world. … [Read more...] about American graffiti