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It is almost without fail that Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival is guaranteed to be one of my annual musical highlights – and despite it…

Scott Bennett is a busy guy at the moment, touring as he is with not one, but two shows; Blood Sugar Baby, a personal piece of storytelling…

David Pearson’s debut play, Firewing, part of Hampstead Theatre’s INSPIRE project for emerging writers, is a heartfelt two-hander about the…

How do you adapt a book like The Waves? A terrifying idea, and one I could not get out of my brain, from the moment the director Jùlia…

Sky Atlantic’s new thriller, Prisoner, is a tense and twisty story involving a sinister crime syndicate called Pegasus, whose boss is a…

In the delirious and exhilarating Sephardic dance that finished their concert devoted to the Jewish, Muslim and Christian music of…

We tend to indulge hagiography when it comes to biopics of pop icons. To get the rights to their music, producers often have to let the…

Ostensibly, Jesca Hoop’s music is categorised as folk. How to square this with “Big Storm,” the fourth track from the singer-songwriter’s…

There are few concert experiences as satisfying as hearing cornerstone works of the Romantic repertoire played with energy, commitment and…