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50 old songs played at gig coming up, including It's Not Unusual? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

litotes

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'50 old songs played at gig coming up' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'including it's not unusual?' is the wordplay.
'including' is an insertion indicator.
'not unusual?' becomes 'lotes' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'it' placed into 'lotes' is 'LITOTES'.

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(Other definitions for litotes that I've seen before include "Possibly, no small surprise" , "Town of N. Norway" , "not exactly truthful, for example" , "in which not a little is a lot?" , "No exaggeration" .)

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