The thesis underlying this two-part drama is that Brian Walden’s 1989 TV interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ...

Trent’s Formal Sppeedwear immerse themselves in what turns out to be their penultimate song, they become lost in the music. What they are playing takes over. Revolving guitar motifs spray forth like ...

Leeds-based Northern Ballet has built a reputation as a source of fine dancers who are also impressive actors. Federico Bonelli, the former Royal Ballet principal who took over its directorship in ...

This special, available for a limited time only, acts as a sort of appetiser for the next leg of a mega tour that started in ...

Anglo-Irish author Catherine Airey’s first novel, Confessions, is a puzzle, a game of family secrets played through the ...

Berlin-based sonic explorer Jules Reidy teams up with Italian drummer-composer Andrea Belfi for the album Dessus Oben Alto Up ...

There’s not much point in having three hours worth of Shakespearean text to craft and the gorgeous Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as ...

If I’d have listened to this blind, I would have absolutely no idea who it was by. This isn’t the voice I remember on those ...

After a week of illness, heading out into the Sunday afternoon cold and rain was not something I was overjoyed to undertake.

There was excellent music making in the Hallé concert in Manchester last night, and there was self-admitted “noise”. Briefly, ...

A band you’re gonna like, whether you like it or not.” The proclamation in the press ads for the New York Dolls’ debut album ...

Somewhat astoundingly, The Purple Bird is Will Oldham’s album number 21 using his Bonnie “Prince” Billy alias. A fine set of alt country tunes, recorded in Nashville and largely co-written with ...