"It was really strange. Really quite conflicting, the sort of thing most bands didn't have to deal with. At the front, we'd ...

The opening images of Tornado are striking. A wild-haired young woman in Japanese peasant garb runs for her life through a ...

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The safe transfer of power in post-war Western democracies was once a given. The homely Pickfords Removals van outside Number ...

I first came across Rachel Jones in 2021 at the Hayward Gallery’s painting show Mixing it Up: Painting Today. I was blown ...

Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in ...

When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which I ended up putting on promotional badges: “BASS CULTURE IS FOLK ...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”.