Anthony Cecil

Articles By Anthony Cecil

Saturday, 09 December 2023 Read more...

On the morning of the press show of Laughing Boy, the BBC news website’s top story was about the abuse of children with learning...

Sia has well and truly stepped into her power. Gone are the days of releasing songs that were pitched to megastars but turned down (“This Is...

While the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra were performing Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie – weirdly, despite its size...

Towards the end of David Haig’s new adaptation of Philip...

It was her 2018 album Be the Cowboy which saw Mitski propelled to stardom status. Laurel Hell, which followed in 2022...

Skirting along the peripheries of doom metal,...

Small-scale shows, nurtured in offbeat places, are becoming all the rage in the...

As he approaches his 70th birthday, Masaaki Suzuki has not just travelled into pastures new but proved himself thoroughly at home in them. The...

First Nadine Shah raised hopes, then dashed them. “I’ve never had a dance off onstage before,” she observed at one point, impressed by the shapes...

In 1903, Wassily Kandinsky painted a figure in a blue cloak galloping across a landscape on a white horse. Several years later the name of the...