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POP’S live streaming craze continues to offer light relief during the lockdown, with Billie Eilish and Camila Cabello among the latest to deliver new music while isolating at home.
Sitting on a couch and sporting a baseball cap, Eilish was joined by her brother Finneas for an unadorned acoustic version of her hit Bad Guy as part of Fox’s Living Room Concert For America.
The clip, with family pics in the background, is on YouTube. The TV special, hosted last weekend by Elton John, also featured Cabello duetting with boyfriend Shawn Mendes.
Gary Barlow’s ‘ crooner sessions’ are also proving a regular delight. Posted at 5pm each weekday on YouTube, the series features the Take That songwriter duetting with other musicians via video calls.
Katherine Jenkins, Rick Astley and Olly Murs have all guested, although the pick of the bunch so far has seen Barlow and Beverley Knight going the full George Michael and Aretha on a show-stopping I Knew You Were Waiting ( For Me). Madonna’s quarantine diaries also continue along their bizarre path, with last week’s bathtub rant followed by more rambling monologues and an impromptu version of Big Spender.
Elsewhere, Manchester band Blossoms compensated for the cancellation of their spring tour by putting a recent Stockport gig online in full last Saturday, while fellow Mancunian JP Cooper has posted an ‘i-soulation’ cover of Justin Bieber’s Yummy on his website.