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The BBC has commissioned an adaptation of journalist and campaigner Paris Lees’ memoirs.

Basement Jaxx have spoken about the time that bandmember Felix Buxton rugby tackled Prince Harry while he was dressed in a gorilla outfit onstage.Buxton recalled the incident in a new interview, sharing that the royal said the experience of being anonymous on stage like that was “one of the best moments of his life”.In the ’00s Basement Jaxx – completed by Simon Ratcliffe – would have guests wear head-to-toe monkey outfits to wear onstage when they performed their 2001 hit single ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ The song’s music video shows primates playing the track in a lab experiment that spirals out of control.Buxton told ABC radio show The J Files that Prince Harry was invited to guest as a dancing gorilla during their 2009 Wireless Festival set in London.“I think he was more interested in Dizzee Rascal [who was going to come perform [‘Lucky Star’] on our third album [‘Kish Kash’],” Buxton said of the prince.“Anyway, [I] met Harry before the show and said, ‘If you want to be a gorilla on stage, help yourself’.” Prince Harry agreed – and Buxton soon forgot that he’d even offered.Buxton added that a requirement of being a dancing gorilla was to not overdo it: “Often we say, can you try and get into the part of being a gorilla? Don’t try act like you’re on a stag do.”But Buxton claimed that the royal got a bit too excited. “[One gorilla] was doing this kind of silly disco dancing,” Buxton recalled.

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T in the Park‘s legendary Slam Tent is to make a comeback at a new Edinburgh festival, organisers have confirmed.As The Scotsman reports, Edinburgh promoters Fly will team up with Slam DJ duo Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle for the three-day event, which will see the tent being revived at an undisclosed location just outside the capital in September.Tickets are set to go on week, with hopes that up to 5,000 fans will be able to witness the return of the tent – which previously played host to

Radio Deejay, where Coccoluto used to host the COCCO show.According to the report, Coccoluto passed away after “fighting for more than a year against an illness”.Tributes have since been paid online by the likes of Pete Tong, Defected Records and Glitterbox owner Simon Dunmore, Gilles Peterson and UNKLE.