This weekend’s Download Festival is part of a live event trial to see if large-scale gatherings are possible.

Rock and metal fans are dusting off their devil horns for the first Download Festival in two years.

A show charting Factory Records – from punk start-up to “influential force” – opens in Manchester.

He’s played Lowry and Turner, and now the actor explains how he came to be holding his own art show.

The Italian glam-rockers are the first Eurovision victors to have a top 10 hit for almost a decade.

Ten thousand people are taking part in a government-backed pilot version of the three-day rock festival.

The impresario had said he’d be willing to be arrested if Cinderella couldn’t open to a full house.

Bastille, Bombay Bicycle Club, Wolf Alice and The Chemical Brothers are due to headline the event.

Campaigners are trying to raise £15m to buy a “lost library” including rare Emily Bronte poems.

Ahead of Download Festival, headliners Enter Shikari talk about finally being back on stage.

Dave Grohl’s band rename themselves the Dee Gees and cover five 1970s hits by the Gibb brothers.

Scarlett Johansson says her character was treated like “a possession or a thing” in Iron Man 2.

The risk of cancellation amid the extended Covid restrictions is too great, organisers decided.

The 1970s disco classic has become the country’s unofficial anthem ahead of the match with England.

The industry faces a further delay with the summer ahead still posing challenges.

The latest four-week delay to unlocking restrictions has pushed an additional 5,000 gigs into doubt.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s movie musical has enjoyed positive reviews but also sparked a colourism row.

A painting by musician David Bowie found at a Canadian dump is set to be auctioned for thousands.

The final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy wins the award – 11 years after the first part did so.

Warner Music acquires the dance producer’s back catalogue in a deal worth more than $100m.

The plaque was installed outside the author’s home 1997, three decades after her death aged 71.

Jamie King claimed he missed out on a role in the film Dunkirk due to PTSD after his son’s death.

The legendary Motown singer recorded every track on Thank You in her home studio.

The star calls on the government to provide cancellation insurance for the UK’s festival scene.

Newsbeat’s gaming reporter looks back at highlights from the world’s most influential gaming event.

Bigfoot will see performances by Primal Scream and Hot Chip despite current lockdown restrictions.

Participants on the show’s seventh series will also receive “comprehensive” psychological support.

Leona Lewis claims US designer Michael Costello body shamed her in 2014.

A clip shared on social media shows demonstrators haranguing BBC Newsnight reporter Nicholas Watt.

Thieves broke into the Tom Davies store in central London, taking hundreds of optical frames and sunglasses.