Andrew Cartmel

Articles By Andrew Cartmel

Prom 49: Quincy Jones Prom, Royal Albert Hall Tuesday, 23 August 2016 Read more...	Burt Bacharach, Royal Festival Hall Tuesday, 05 July 2016 Read more...
Hans Zimmer, Wembley Arena Friday, 08 April 2016 Read more...	Clint Mansell, Royal Festival Hall Friday, 25 March 2016 Read more...
Ennio Morricone, O2 Arena Wednesday, 17 February 2016 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Whether it is or isn’t the final Mission: Impossible film, there’s a distinct fin-de-siècle feel about this eighth instalment, and not...

In the guided tour of Britain’s cathedral cities that is the primetime TV...

With French baroque opera all but banished from the UK’s major...

Stereolab always walked a knife edge between deadly serious and dead silly. Their sound was constructed around the sort of reference points –...

The plays of David Ireland have a tendency to build to an explosion, after long stretches of caustic dialogue and very funny banter....

Every now and then a concert programme comes along that fits like a bespoke suit, and this one could have been specially designed for me. Two...

Nick Mohammed invented his Mr Swallow character – camp, lisping, with an inflated ego and the mistaken belief that he has creative...

Photographer Finetime and I have our first pints outside Dalton’s, a bar on...

There’s a grail, but it doesn't glow in a mundane if perverted Christian ritual. Three of the main characters have young and old actor versions...