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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Divorce. Changing jobs. Natural disasters. A change in financial resources. Going away to college. Wanting to be nearer to family members. Those are just a…

Clare Grogan, singer-songwriterEverything happened very quickly for us. When we started the band, the boys were all picking up their instruments for the first time. I borrowed a Cinderella dress from the school drama club and wore it at the Futurama festival in Leeds. John Peel saw us and everything went off. Bill Forsyth had already spotted me waitressing and wanted me to be in his new film, so the summer I left school I signed to Epic Records and made Gregory’s Girl.We had a No 2 smash with Happy Birthday and naively…

As a teenager, Clare Grogan started out as a left-field Siouxsie type, became a colourful, ribbon-wearing pop star and memorably starred in Gregory’s Girl. Now, Altered Images’ first album in (gulp) 39 years reinvents her again, as a retro-modern disco diva. Picking up where the shimmering Don’t Talk to Me About Love left off in 1983, this is 80s-influenced electropop given a contemporary polish.Altered Images: Mascara Streakz album coverOther original members are long departed, and Grogan wrote with her husband Stephen…

EA has backtracked on some of its The Sims 4 modding policy changes posted in July following fan backlash.  Some of the controversial changes included the restrictions against promoting Mods “in a way that suggests they are endorsed by or affiliated with The Sims, Maxis, or Electronic Arts”, meaning that players wouldn’t be allowed to use “game logos or trademarks, including versions of the plumbob, or key art designs” to promote them. Additionally, it was stated that mods “must be non-commercial and distributed…