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Seasick Steve regales Glastonbury with his tales

Seasick Steve performed to a huge early afternoon audience at Glastonbury festival today (June 28), telling the crowd stories in between his blues tracks.

Taking to the stage just after 1pm (BST), Steve, wearing his trademark denim dungarees and green baseball cap, was joined by a drummer and swigged from a bottle of Jack Daniels throughout.

"This isn't a stage prop I'm just trying to be tough y'all," the guitarist told the crowd.

As well as telling the crowd that they sounded like a baptist choir, Seasick Steve brought a girl from the audience up onstage so he could sing to her halfway through the show.

Later on, an obviously choked-up Seasick said: "I can't believe I'm playing up here - England has welcomed me with open arms."

Keep up with all the action from Glastonbury this weekend (June 27-29) as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking NME.COM's Glastonbury Festival page. Plus make sure you get next week's issue of NME on UK newsstands from July 2 for the ultimate Glastonbury review.

Jake and Reese move in together

Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal have moved in together.

Jake recently moved into Reese's $5 million Los Angeles home fuelling rumours the couple are planning to wed.

A source said: "Marriage is definitely what they are working toward."

The pair have become so close Jake is even helping raise Reese's two children - eight-year-old Ava and four-year-old Deacon - from her marriage to Ryan Phillippe.

A friend of Reese's added to Us Weekly magazine: "They literally don't want to spend any time away from each other."

Oscar-winner Reese and Brokeback Mountain star Jake have been dating for a year after meeting on the set of the film Rendition.

Although they initially denied rumours they were an item, they eventually went public last October after they were seen enjoying a romantic weekend break in Rome.

Reese had filed for divorce from Ryan the year before citing irreconcilable differences.

She has previously spoken of the emotional breakdown she suffered when her marriage ended, while Ryan has claimed the divorce was the "most personally devastating time" in his life.

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There�s a very tense moment in Sam Dunn and Scot McFayden�s Global Metal, their travelogue through heavy metal subculture around the world, where the lead singer of Tengkorak, Indonesia�s biggest heavy metal band, insists that it�s the mission of all Muslims � indeed of right-thinking people everywhere � to kill �Zionists,� a sentiment that he voices while wearing a prominent anti-Nazi armband. Suddenly, the confused, inchoate world of early 21st-century politics has entered Dunn and McFayden�s world with a vengeance.

�It's kind of an unfortunate product of 9/11,� Dunn reflects, �with the hardening of views, and some young people feel that they have to take a very strong stance based on who they are in some countries. I think Tengkorak's politics are an example of that - being defensive, feeling attacked as a Muslim and having to direct your anger at something else.�

Global Metal is a sequel of sorts to the pair�s earlier film, Metal: A Headbanger�s Journey, which followed Dunn � a trained anthropologist and lifelong metalhead � around the world as he explored the roots of his favorite music. Global Metal came about as a response to all the letters he and McFayden received in the aftermath of the first film�s release, from metal fans insisting that they check out their country�s often small but vital scenes. Politics didn�t play much of a role in the first film, but it certainly does in the new one, with its stops in Brazil, China, Indonesia, Israel and Dubai.

�It's pre-political is the only way I can describe it, after the first film,� says McFayden. �You would have someone like Alice Cooper say that it has nothing to do with politics, and then you'd have Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine say School's Out was the most political song he heard when he was a kid. It's political, but it doesn't give you an answer - it's a feeling, it's emotionally political, not intellectually political. But in those countries we found that Indonesia is taking more of an intellectual political approach, and in China it seems like a combination.�

Their filmmaking partnership has moved on to documentaries on Iron Maiden and Rush that will take them into the next year, after which they�re still only speculating about another film in the series.

�I guess things do work in threes,� McFayden says. �I really don't know what would be the third installment of the metal trilogy...�

�We've talked about the possibility of expanding Global Metal into a series,� adds Dunn, �because when we started the research for the movie we had a list of about 30 countries where we knew there was metal, but eventually pared it down to the ones we thought were most interesting. So there's a list of countries that you could easily do a half-hour piece on - Colombia or Russia or Cuba. Morocco. There's a lot of interesting places.�

>> Read Metro's review on Global Metal.

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