There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the ...

Hamad Butt studied at Goldsmiths College at the same time as YBAs (Young British Artists) like Damien Hirst and Gillian ...

When Van Morrison last released an album of original songs, during the Covid pandemic, it didn’t go down well. Indeed for ...

Take the title track, Ruth Gipps’ little bassoon and piano duet a winning portrait of a cow mooching about, the final bars ...

John Wick’s simple story of a man and his dog became a bonkers, baroque franchise in record time, converting Keanu Reeves’ ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

I called caroline “perhaps the best band in the U.K” in my article about their debut, which I named my album of the year.

Do you know the name of the propaganda minister of England, or America, or even Stalin? No. But Joseph Goebbels? Everyone ...

No-one needs to be living in Trump’s USA to be aware that governments never feel that it’s in their interest to prioritise ...

With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of global sounds? Fes in Morocco has been presenting its ...

I wrote here that Lady Gaga was the godmother of the new generation of ostentatiously “theatre kid” pop stars – but actually, ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away called the late 1990s, there was a scene known as “big beat”. It consisted of club ...