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 ...

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

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

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 ...

For the first encore of the evening, it was not just the audience but the whole ensemble of Hespèrion XXI that was mesmerised ...

It’s been a long time since an exhibition made me feel physically sick. The Hayward Gallery is currently hosting 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.

If, like me, chamber music isn’t your most frequent home, there are bound to be revelations of what for many are known ...

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”.

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...

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 ...