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The upcoming edition of Glastonbury will be the first back following a fallow year in 2026, and will take place between Wednesday, June 23 and Sunday, June 27 . For the first time in Glastonbury’s history, prices have…
The story, set in 16th-century France, has been restructured with new lyrics by Boublil, Annabel Mutale Reed and Paul Hodge and folkier orchestrations. It has been cut down to be performed in an hour and a half without…
The songwriter is a fixture on the city’s music scene, a potent performer and an eager collaborator. Emerging from the same community that has spawned Mercury winners English Teacher, Adult DVD, and Far Caspian, Big Warm…
Cohen has returned to the character sporadically, including 2014’s Ali G: Rezurection and occasional appearances on US talk shows and awards ceremonies. Earlier this year, he was spotted at Wimbledon and Who Iz I? was…
Speaking on the origins of the nature of the album’s creation, the band state that “we were in the studio together when the phrase came to us: too many tabs open. That became the heartbeat of the record”. It is no…
It's seemingly constructed to document collapse, but tries to find tenderness within the wreckage. From the opening notes and subsonic frequencies of “Arrival” and the rapped dream preachings of South London's Eldon…
It's seemingly constructed to document collapse, but tries to find tenderness within the wreckage. From the opening notes and subsonic frequencies of “Arrival” and the rapped dream preachings of South London's Eldon…
The new EP explores live instrumentation more than in the past, recorded with Daniel Zakaria Shooshtari on drums and co-producer SATNAV (Sebastian Zieler) on guitar and bass. “Round and round” takes inspiration from the…
Among the gentle domestic delights of cartoonist Dudley Rush and co, one scene jumped out at me: a rain-soaked Dudley dashing into the local Chinese restaurant I always visited in real life as a child. It’s not the first…
She was mesmerising – I couldn’t take my eyes off her, with her distinctive voice, swagger and jazz roots. Her love for the genre was clear to see. Later, Amy recorded her second album Back to Black . A story of…