Category: Arts
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa review – a female Everest climber’s ascent
This portrait of title subject Lhakpa Sherpa, the only woman to have summited Mount Everest 10 times, is so densely packed with uplifting moments that [more…]
‘It brings you back’: the suburban choir helping people living with dementia reconnect
Leigh Scully looks to her husband, and asks: “Have you been enjoying singing, darling?” “Music. Music. Music. I love it,” Peter Scully says, with a [more…]
Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?
At the end of June this year thousands of people – from Scotland to Bulgaria, Chile to Singapore – gathered in an industrial estate in Manchester [more…]
Waxahatchee review – warm, rousing anthems about embracing change
Waxahatchee’s fifth album, Saint Cloud, came out on 27 March 2020, arriving into a changed world. Having made her name on crunchy indie rock, here [more…]
Attack of the spoilers: are trailers giving away too much?
Trailers have been responsible for ruining a whole lot of movies. More than three decades ago, if you happened to be watching Paul Verhoeven’s classic [more…]
Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt
Even by the standards of opportunistic franchise cross-pollination that has fed the superhero film genre in recent years, Deadpool & Wolverine is a business merger [more…]
Raphael Rogiński: Žaltys review | Jude Rogers’ folk album of the month
Named after a Lithuanian snake spirit that supposedly brings families health and prosperity, Polish guitarist Raphael Rogiński’s hypnotic new album is filled with the heat [more…]
‘In all those movies about childhood, I never saw someone who looked like me’: Sean Wang on his debut, Dìdi
Sean Wang is jet-lagged. He has been up since 4am after arriving in London late the night before. When he couldn’t get back to sleep, [more…]
‘Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us’: David Lynch on music, friendship and life’s biggest mystery
‘Where we’re from,” says The Man from the Other Place in David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks, “there’s always music in the air.” The line [more…]
Interpol: ‘I’m very glad we said yes to putting a song in Friends – it was a pretty hardcore moment’
Around the time of Antics [2004] your stage persona was very much inline with the music: atmospheric, brooding, serious. Eight years later there was lots [more…]