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A dissident film director from Belarus is released after 1 year of detention in Serbia
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BERLIN -- A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to Germany.
Andrei Hniot told The Associated Press that Serbian authorities released him from house arrest on Thursday, exactly a year after he was detained. Under Serbian law, pre-extradition detention cannot exceed one year, said his lawyer Filip Sofijanic.
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Belarus issued an international warrant for Hniot on charges of tax evasion, which he claims are false.
Hniot is a noted critic of Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. He participated in the huge protests that gripped the country in 2020 following a a presidential election whose disputed results gave Lukashenko a sixth term in office.
Authorities launched an extensive and harsh crackdown on opposition amid the protests, which continues to the present day. More than 65,000 people were arrested for protesting or other opposition activity. The country's most prominent opposition figures are now imprisoned or have fled the country.
Hniot said he was able to leave Serbia without problems.
“In Berlin I was able to to breathe a sigh of relief and try to comprehend that this nightmarish year is already behind me,” he said.
Belarusian opposition figures abroad campaigned for Hniot's release. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who was forced to leave Belarus after she ran against Lukashenko in 2020, said the German Foreign Ministry and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen supported efforts to release Hniot.
The Belarusian human rights group Viasna says there are about 1,300 political prisoners in Belarus, including the group's Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder Ales Bialiatski.
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The Cure's Robert Smith: 'Singing new album live helps me grieve'
The Cure frontman Robert Smith says performing songs from the band's newly-released album, Songs Of A Lost World, helped him deal with the grief of losing close family members in recent years.
Speaking to BBC Radio 6 Music's Huw Stephens, he said singing live became "hugely cathartic" in escaping the "doom and gloom" he felt.
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"You just suddenly feel something. You feel connection," he added. "And that's the reason why I still do it... that communal moment with a crowd. There's something really, really wonderful about it."
The band performed a live session before also playing a Radio 2 In Concert set to a small audience at the BBC Radio Theatre on Wednesday.
The Cure's Robert Smith in conversation
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The London show included a performance of Alone – the group's first new music in 16 years and the lead single from Songs Of A Lost World, released this Friday.
The long-awaited record is the follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream and has been in production since 2019, following the band's 40th anniversary shows.
Smith expressed relief at finishing the process, telling Stephens that completing song lyrics he deems worthy has become more difficult with age.
"It's the one thing that as I've grown older, I’ve found much much harder to do - write words that I want to sing. I can write words but I don't really feel like singing them.
"So to arrive at that point where I think that it's worth singing these songs, it has become really, really hard,” he said.
He revealed that his wife Mary, who he met at secondary school, helped him finalise the album's tracklist, insisting that he balance the depth of the darkness.
"I was finishing the doom and gloom ones... and [Mary] said no, no, no your best albums are the ones that just have a couple of... more upbeat tracks. She was right.
"I wanted to finish everything, because I thought that's only fair to all the songs, like they're all little children - I don't want to pick favourites."
Originally formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1978, The Cure continue to endure as alternative rock’s goth icons - pitching lyrics of love, angst and desolation against a kaleidoscope of melodies.
From early years of rock sparsity - pulling apart the remnants of Joy Division's post-punk gloom and David Bowie's Low era - they bloomed into late-80s indie-pop heavyweights - defined by Smith's melancholy.
This era spawned a number of UK top 10 singles, including Lullaby and Friday I'm In Love - one of the band's best-known tracks from their chart-topping 1992 album, Wish.
Guitarist and principal songwriter Smith remains the band’s only constant member, closely followed by long-time bassist Simon Gallup.
Reeves Gabrels and Perry Bamote currently tour on guitar, with Jason Cooper on drums and Roger O'Donnell on keyboard.
But it is Smith's imprint that dominates on Songs Of A Lost World - the band's 14th album.
Featuring songs written as far back as 2010, events of recent years have given it a personal feel, with Smith mourning the loss of family members, including his late brother, Richard.
When the track made its way into new songs included in last year's tour, Smith often had trouble completing it without becoming overwhelmed with emotion. He told Stephens that going on stage and singing the track "night after night" eventually became a "wonderful moment".
Speaking to Matt Everitt in an interview for the latest issue of Uncut magazine, since published on the band's YouTube channel, Smith explained these real-life touchstones came to define the record and set it apart from earlier albums.
"When you’re younger, you romanticise [death], even without knowing it. Then it starts happening to your immediate family and friends and suddenly it’s a different thing," he said.
"It’s something that I struggled with lyrically: how to put this into the songs? I feel like I am different person than I was when we last made an album. I wanted that to come through."
This sense of fragility and awareness of mortality runs throughout, as Smith, now 65, faces the passage of time with newfound urgency.
Its darkness and atmospherics mirror 1982's Pornography and 1989's critically-acclaimed Disintegration. However, Songs Of A Lost World is much tighter in length, with only eight tracks - almost half the runtime of those albums.
Reviews from critics have been positive, hailing Songs Of A Lost World as a return to form.
The Telegraph awarded five stars, with Neil McCormick describing it as "perversely uplifting in its nihilism and the best thing since their debut". The Guardian’s four-star review praised the record’s introspective depth, particularly how it wrestles with “the question of Smith’s own selfhood”.
“It seems to be fracturing”, wrote Kitty Empire, despite fans’ supposed clear image of one of British rock’s iconic figures. She also highlighted the "unexpected pop banger", Drone: Nodrone - one of Mary’s picks - as the album’s “crowning glory”.
These themes culminate on the album's closer, Endsong, an 11-minute epic that stood out as a highlight of the band's Radio 2 In Concert performance on Wednesday - broadcast on BBC Radio 2, iPlayer and BBC Two this Saturday.
Formed around a thudding, slow drum beat, the guitars build to a fully-formed crescendo of whirling tones and unrelenting bass hooks, similar to 1992's Cut.
Lyrically it finds Smith looking back on his own life, "remembering the hopes and dreams I had"; wondering what happened to the "small boy", and how he "got so old".
Elsewhere, the mood of the set was celebratory and very much alive: filled with fan favourites and greatest hits, from the languid heartbreak of Pictures of You to the poppier sounds of Inbetween Days and Just Like Heaven.
The band themselves also appeared in good spirits, exchanging smiles, with Smith playfully dancing around during the encore that included Close To Me and Lullaby.
Joy in the face of new material that, in places, sounds darker than ever should perhaps come as no surprise.
"I've hated the idea of having a set time for a career", Smith told the NME in 1983 as he turned 25. "I think it’s terrible. I suppose it’s because I’m getting older and feeling my age."
Smith recently suggested to The Times that the band may come to an end around their 50th anniversary in 2028, by which time he will be around 70.
Speaking to Stephens, he suggested, with a dry laugh, that he's "not going to get" to that milestone age and would instead be "really happy" to see Christmas.
But Smith told Uncut that the band have three albums near-completion following their intensely productive 2019 recording sessions.
He adds to Stephens that he's "almost there" with the second album. "Once I’ve done that, then I shall take a deep breath and then I’ll look up, but until I finish it I’m not bothering about what comes next."
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Nursery move for music venue which hosted The Cure
A derelict music venue which once hosted gigs by rock legends The Cure and Joe Strummer will be turned into a nursery and community centre.
The Palm Cove Club in Manningham, Bradford, was a popular concert hall from the late 1970s, with bands such as The Fall, Diamond Head and Hanoi Rocks also visiting during its heyday.
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The venue on Hollings Road has been vacant for several years and had fallen into disrepair, with parts of the roof collapsing.
Hollings Youth Association applied for planning permission to convert into a community facility with an attached nursery, with Bradford Council planners giving the move the green light.
A car park with 12 spaces will also be created at the site, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
The plans said the development would provide an important facility for young people in the area, as well as offering skills and training for those looking for work.
The planning application for the site, which was a reggae club in its later years, said: "Much of the property requires heavy refurbishment and regeneration.
"The proposal aims to bring life back to the building by using the bones of the existing structure to create an improved mixed-use development that effortlessly integrates into its surroundings."
Approving the application, planning officers said: “The site occupies a relatively sustainable location close to local shops and services."
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White label auction: Frankie Goes To Hollywood album fetches £3,500
A signed rare copy of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's classic debut album Welcome to the Pleasuredome has been sold at a charity auction for £3,500.
The test pressing of the Liverpool band's 1984 debut was one of 231 lots sold for more than £50,000 in the white label auction in aid of the BRIT Trust.
The Cure's 10 albums including Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and Pornography - signed by front man Robert Smith - realised £12,350 for the music charity.
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Since then, money raised has helped promote education and wellbeing through music and the creative arts.
'Blown away'
Causes supported include the BRIT School and Nordoff and Robbins, which provides music therapy.
Dozens more LPs each fetched hundreds of pounds, including classics and more recent releases by New Order, Paul Weller, Neneh Cherry, The Jam, Louis Tomlinson, Marianne Faithfull, Motorhead, Mark Knopfler, The Charlatans, Jamie T, Sandie Shaw (with The Smiths), The Who, Beth Gibbons, Underworld, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Derek & The Dominoes, The Sex Pistols and The Verve.
The auction was hosted by Omega Auctions in Newton-Le-Willows.
Johnny Chandler, director at Universal Music Recordings, who founded the white label auction, said it was a "brilliant total for The BRIT Trust".
Tony Wadsworth CBE, chair of The BRIT Trust, said he was "blown away" by the incredible sum.
He said: "It will help to make a real difference to the many causes and the great work that we support around the country to transform lives through the power of music and the creative arts."
The annual auction has raised £150,000.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood recently reunited for the first time in 36 years to play at a concert marking the Eurovision Song Contest being hosted in Liverpool.
The white label auction - featuring test pressings and records that were typically used for promotions - was first held in 2019.