KATIE CLEGG Controversy

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EXCLUSIVE: TV babe Katie Clegg bombarded with kinky snaps and calls

'Can you get me a job' ... Sonjia Eccleston sent friend and glamour model Katie Clegg a string of sexy snaps involving her boyfriend Derek Hatton

HARD-left firebrand Derek Hatton’s fiancée sent a naked photo of herself and the Militant Tendency frontman to a TV glamour model.

Katie Clegg received the pic from pal Sonjia Eccleston, who grandad-of-nine Hatton, 68, is due to marry this summer.

Sonjia, 46, also sent Katie, 30, snaps of her bum and boobs before bombarding her with phone calls.

Katie said: “For Sonjia to send me a naked picture of her fella who is in his 60s just creeps me out.”

Katie, who charges punters £6.50 a minute to talk to her while she strips on-screen as Tia on adult TV station Babestation, is still reeling from the first pic.

'Maybe she's trying out her kinky side' ... Katie said her friend Sonjia was shocked by the naked pics

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Glamour model ... Katie charges punters £6.50 a minute to talk to her while she strips on-screen

Sent at 12.23am on April 3, the selfie shows Hatton, a staunch supporter of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, mauling Sonjia’s bum in a naked clinch.

Katie received a missed call from Sonjia 11 minutes before receiving the lewd image.

She said: “I was shocked when Sonjia sent me a naked picture of the two of them.

“Then she started calling me at 3am. I didn’t answer because I was in bed.”

Sonjia then sent a snap of her bum, to which Katie replied, at 3.01am: “Amazing xxxx.”

Moments later, Sonjia sent a pic of herself lying naked on a sofa with the caption: “Can you get me a job?” She called again twice at 3.58am but Katie did not answer.

Single Katie, who has a daughter of 13, said: “I can’t work out if she just has a kinky side she is trying to explore. Or maybe she is bisexual. But whatever it is, she can leave me out of it.”

DJ ... Hatton has worked as a TV and radio presenter, and plans to marry Sonjia this summer Manchester Evening News

Trotskyist property developer Derek Hatton seen with pal Paul McCartney Rex Features

Katie, of Knowsley, Merseyside, met Sonjia on a Botox beauty course at Liverpool Community College. She added: “I went back to her home once but Derek wasn’t there. Sonjia was always asking about my job with Babestation.”

Katie is a pal of the cast of TV’s Geordie Shore and recently posed in a skimpy “lady mankini” with stars.

Hatton was a prominent member of Trotskyist Militant Tendency which almost tore apart the Labour Party in the 1980s. He was deputy leader of Liverpool City Council but was later expelled by Labour and became a property developer.

Last night, after being approached by a Sun on Sunday reporter, he said: “Do you honestly think I would say anything? You can f*** off.”

Rebel tendency

Trotskyist ... Derek Hatton was a member of Militant Tendency, a hard-left group that threatened to destroy the Labour Party in the 80s Rex Features

DEREK Hatton was the face of hard-left British politics in the mid-1980s.

The former fireman pledged to spend £30million Liverpool City Council did not have in protest at cuts by Mrs Thatcher’s Tories.

Labour expelled him in 1986 over his membership of Militant Tendency. He later quit politics, becoming a property developer and presenting on TV and radio.

The keen cyclist jointly founded Bike 2 Work Scheme Ltd. Hatton last year claimed he rejoined Labour but the party denied it.

Panto ... Hatton withdrew from politics after he was expelled from the Labour Party and took on other roles Rex Features

Mainland - 'Cigarette Daydreams'

Mainland often find themselves wandering the streets of New York, exploring its tattered outskirts, and faded glamour.

It's something that lingers in their songwriting, that sense of bruised romanticism and shattered dreams.

Set to head out on another burst of Stateside shows, the NY-based outfit have found the time to record a cover.

'Cigarette Daydreams' was initially recorded by Cage The Elephant, but here it's given a rather more plangent treatment.

Check it out now.

Lazy Habits - 'Answers With Questions'

Lazy Habits are a London-based six-piece whose sample-delic sound matches generations, styles, and continents.

Fusing New Orleans jazz with hip-hop, pop, and more, the band's jaw-dropping live show has taken them to historic venues such as London's Roundhouse and KOKO hubs.

Festival stalwarts, the band's new album 'The Atrocity Exhibition' drops on May 27th and finds them moving even further in disparate yet exciting directions.

New cut 'Answers With Questions' is a case in point. Heavy duty fare, it's informed both by Lazy Habits' live show and their growing confidence in the studio.

The Duke Spirit - 'Wounded Wing'

The Duke Spirit are a much under-rated group.

To many, the band were simply part of the Noughties indie bubble, but in reality their material cuts much deeper than some press-driven trend.

A much-loved phenomenon, the band's long-awaited new album 'KIN' finds The Duke Spirit going full circle. Simon Raymonde - Bella Union boss and former Cocteau Twin - returns as producer, re-starting a relationship that fuelled the band's debut album.

As a result, 'KIN' feels both refreshed and entirely familiar. Out on May 6th, the group will trail material with a series of intimate live shows.

Pirate Radio is able to premiere 'Wounded Wing', and it's a subtle offering from the band. Boasting guests vocals from guest vocalist Mark Lanegan and piano by Simon Raymonde, it's a moving, intriguing, and poetic work, one that wrings out fresh detail.

Check out the video below.

Catch The Duke Spirit live at the following shows:

May
6 London Kingston Banquet (acoustic 6pm)
9 Brighton Resident (acoustic 6:30pm)
11 London Rough Trade (full band 7pm)
12 Southsea Pie & Vinyl (acoustic 7pm)

Plants and Animals "No Worries Gonna Find Us"

The long wait for Plants and Animals' fourth album, Waltzed in from the Rumbling, is almost over. Two days off from the record's official due date, though, the Montreal indie rock group have unleashed a video for their rippling "No Worries Gonna Find Us."

As previously reported, the track features elastic, bouncing bass lines and a thick, hypnotic drum groove. We find the band playing the song  on a soundstage, cast in the glow of various coloured lights. Also on board are a group of older folks dancing along to the tune.

Fittingly, frontman Warren Spicer sums up of the smiley scene: "I have spent all of my days in life just waiting for the time to come alive."

You can catch the dance party down below, while Waltzed in from the Rumbling officially hits stores on Friday (April 29) through Secret City Records. As previously reported, the band have several Canadian dates coming up on their North American tour. You can check them all out below.

Tour dates:

05/06 Winooski, VT - Waking Windows Music & Arts Festival
05/10 Washington, DC - DC9
05/11 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
05/13 Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade
05/14 Boston, MA - Great Scott
05/17 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
05/18 Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
05/19 Columbus, OH - The Basement
05/31 London, UK - The Hoxton
06/02 Paris, FR - Espace B
06/05 Toronto, ON - Field Trip
06/08 Chicago, IL - Schubas
06/09 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
06/10 Winnipeg, MB - The Good Will Social Club
06/11 Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's
06/13 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
06/14 Calgary, AB - Marquee Room
06/15 Nelson, BC - Spiritbar at the Hume Hotel
06/16 Vancouver, BC - The Imperial Theatre
06/17 Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
06/18 Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern
06/21 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
06/23 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
06/24 Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater

Holy Fuck "Tom Tom"

Experimental Toronto electro-rock posse Holy Fuck recently revealed plans for a new record called Congratulations and shared singles "Tom Tom" and"Xed Eyes." Now, that former track has been treated to an accompanying music video.
 
The clip was shot in Romania, where the band brought together a cast and crew consisting of old friends and collaborators, as well as locals they met while in Zarnesti. The unsettling video brings together shots of the stunning locale, as well as captivating, dramatic performances from the recruited actors.
 
Watch the clip for "Tom Tom" in the player below. Congratulations is out on May 27 via Innovative Leisure/Last Gang Records.
 

Entire Cities 'Rock Chapel'

Entire Cities released their latest EP Rock Chapel earlier this year, and now the whole record has been given the video treatment.
 
The full EP is now accompanied by a 20-minute short film that came to fruition through collaboration. They worked with Charise Aragoza, a dancer and choreographer known for her work with Maylee Todd and HATAW, as well as the animators behind Fake Palms' "YTMATLDPH" video.
 
The result is an entrancing visual journey through the six-song release that stars Aragoza dancing by fires, through forests and in fields. Animated illustrations are superimposed atop the performance footage, adding an additional layer of motion to the already movement-filled clip.
 
Watch the visual accompaniment to Rock Chapel in the player below. If you want to catch Entire Cities live, their next show will take place at Wavelength's Canadian Music Week NeXT showcase on May 5 at the Silver Dollar in Toronto.