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The Dalai Lama burst into laughter. That was when Avedon snapped two more frames and announced: "Oh, I got it!" Avedon's assistant, Sebastian Kim , was baffled. "I was like, what the hell happened? There's only four…
Read moreThe exhibition takes place across three acts. Act One: Grey Britain and Glam introduces visitors to the social and political landscape of the 1970s with a collection of posters, photographs, newspapers and archive…
Read moreThe songwriter has decided to fully embrace his story on the incoming record, built alongside some close friends. Tom A. Smith was born with a rare heart condition, and extensive surgery as a child left him with scarring…
Read moreSowing verse-shaped seeds in the soil, he’s nourished them with the faith that one day his unseen visions will blossom into something tangible for the world to witness. Dialling in from a hotel room across the Atlantic…
Read moreIndeed, the dual and duelling guitar lines of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd sparked off each other so vibrantly that, to paraphrase their seminal stand-off ‘Marquee Moon’, the lightning seemed to strike itself. As one…
Read moreThe UK singer has enjoyed a truly incredible 12 months, shattering chart records and conquering the globe. Now adored in the United States, Olivia Dean has played a string of historic shows, including four nights at…
Read moreFrom that album comes the powerful single ‘Cryogen’, which frontman Matt Bellamy has placed above some of Muse’s biggest hits in a blind-ranking for NME . What songs were bested by ‘Cryogen’? Find out in the video below.…
Read moreCheck out our interview with the singer-songwriter below, along with lead single ‘Carry That Weight’ co-written by The Maccabees’ Hugo White . The Sunderland singer-songwriter has never spoken publicly about being born…
Read moreA band will often bring together a very disparate set of people, their only thing in common the fact they're in the same group. And a good band takes account of the interests and strengths of its members – that's how you…
Read moreThere's a West End play about the loves of the Bloomsbury economist John Maynard Keynes and if you visit the National Trust's Sissinghurst , its flowerbeds are set alight by Vita Sackville-West's affair with Virginia…
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