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Mr Selfridge, Series 3, ITV
Monday, 26 January 2015
Mercifully not preceded by a Broadchurch-style hype-tsunami, the new series of Mr Selfridge has slipped neatly back into the Sunday 9pm slot as if it's the rightful owner just...
Julian Cope, Glee Club, Birmingham
Monday, 26 January 2015
While Julian Cope’s albums are usually fairly expansive affairs which employ a vast array of instruments, an audience with the Arch Drude is a more intimate affair these days....
Jan Garbarek Group, Stormen, Bodø
Monday, 26 January 2015
Norway’s celebrated jazz colossus Jan Garbarek hadn’t played the north Norwegian city of Bodø for 15 years. Moreover, he and his group took the stage of the spanking new Stormen...
Rubens and His Legacy, Royal Academy
Sunday, 25 January 2015
What does it mean to be a great artist? Is it enough for your work to be admired, studied, emulated and quoted by contemporaries and subsequent generations, or is the value of art...
Holocaust: Night Will Fall, Channel 4
Sunday, 25 January 2015
More than once in André Singer’s documentary Holocaust: Night Will Fall – marking in advance the 70th anniversary, on 27th January, of the liberation of Auschwitz,...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Sunday, 25 January 2015
Tyrannosaurus Rex: My People Were Fair and had Sky in Their Hair, Prophets, Seers & Sages: Angels of the Ages, Unicorn“I was just reflecting and talking about things...
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, October Gallery
Saturday, 24 January 2015
There have been Throbbing Gristle reunions at Tate Modern, and Psychic TV last played in London at the now-demolished...
Beyond Clueless
Saturday, 24 January 2015
Charlie Lyne’s Beyond Clueless, a Kickstarter-funded film essay about the deeper meaning of post-1990 coming-of-age movies,...
Classical CDs Weekly: Henry Mancini, Georg Breinschmid, Beethoven
Saturday, 24 January 2015
Henry Mancini: The Classic Soundtrack Collection (Sony)You get a good sense of any composer's strengths and...
PJ Harvey: Recording in Progress, Artangel at Somerset House
Saturday, 24 January 2015
Artangel continues to instigate extraordinary events in extraordinary places. Over the past two decades and more, directors...
Ex Machina
Friday, 23 January 2015
Alex Garland’s directorial debut is spare, clever s.f. Ever since he began his now abandoned novelist’s career with The...
Bear Winter
Friday, 23 January 2015
As a genre, the "Match 3" puzzle game seems like a sort of evolutionary dead end. You can gussy it up with dramatic sound...
Surviving the Holocaust - Freddie Knoller's War, BBC Two
Friday, 23 January 2015
First-hand testimonial is surely the building block of history. Whether it’s in the form of written diaries or the...
Cucumber, Channel 4
Thursday, 22 January 2015
It doesn’t take many cucumbers smacked into cupped male palms to realise this isn’t, surprisingly, a show about salad....
Wolf Hall, BBC Two
Thursday, 22 January 2015
For weeks and weeks, the BBC has been borrowing Anne Boleyn’s tactic of seduction. Henry VIII was vouchsafed occasional...
Leiferkus, LPO, Jurowski, RFH
Thursday, 22 January 2015
To pair Rachmaninov’s brooding and little-performed The Miserly Knight with Wagner's brooding but much-performed Das...
James Dillon's Stabat Mater, London Sinfonietta, Volkov, QEH
Thursday, 22 January 2015
James Dillon calls this major work, premered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival last November, a “Cubist Stabat...
10 Questions for Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
At all of 22, the British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has already become one of the best-loved solo pianists in the UK, with...
Andrea Chénier, Royal Opera
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
What kind of regime, asks Gérard, talks of justice while killing poets? It’s a question the answer to which suggests itself...
Quick! Win tickets for the London Art Fair
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Whether you’re interested in buying, just looking or attending one of the many talks and events, the London Art Fair is the...
A Most Violent Year
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
JC Chandor is rapidly turning into one of the most fascinating (and gifted) filmmakers out there, as A Most Violent Year...
The Changeling, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Ever been stuck in a claustrophobic space with a group of really unpleasant people? Add mayhem, murder and the kind of razor...
Latvian Radio Choir, Kļava, St John's Smith Square
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Latvia likes to be different. At least that’s the message they sent out with the cultural programme marking the start of the...
New Atlantis, The Crystal
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The future is a bad place. Most of our predictions about climate change and the world’s resources seem to come from a...
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