Category: Arts
Jakob Bro: Taking Turns review – lost masterpiece from great Dane’s understated jazz supergroup
When Miles Davis led the 1948-50 sessions that became jazz’s Birth of the Cool releases, the most bewitching solo voice apart from his own trumpet [more…]
‘They were inventing a new definition of sexy’: stars and scenesters on the New York Dolls’ riotous rock
Fifty years ago, the most important American underground rock band of its generation was dying. The New York Dolls, the androgynous-but-tough band who mixed the [more…]
Ticket resale prices for live UK events to be capped in crackdown on touts
The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under “gamechanging” proposals put forward by the government to crack [more…]
‘Is it sexual? Or violent?’: 2024’s best record sleeves – in pictures
Cover art by Lulu Lin (2nd prize winner) for Romance by Fontaines DC Second place went to the artwork for Romance, the fourth album by [more…]
‘Every day is 24 hours of panic to just get out the door’: Jesse Eisenberg on self-indulgence, candid aunts and his Oscar-tipped Holocaust comedy
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are in complete agreement. People being more open about everyday anguish is a good thing. Absolutely. One hundred per cent. [more…]
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger review – Rory Kinnear files a solid return as the bloke from Burnley
It won no prizes for subtlety, but cheerful, victory-of-the-underdog comedy Bank of Dave featured a stonking lead performance by Rory Kinnear as Dave Fishwick. He’s [more…]
Malcolm Le Grice obituary
In 1970 Malcolm Le Grice made the seven-minute film Berlin Horse. There is no narrative: original 8mm footage of a horse led around a yard [more…]
Lily Allen takes break from podcast, citing poor mental health: ‘I’m spiralling’
Lily Allen has announced she is taking a break from her BBC podcast Miss Me?, citing poor mental health and a “tough period” in her [more…]
‘It was anything but chill!’ Rising star Victoria Canal on performing with Coldplay – and what Tom Cruise taught her
Like many people, Victoria Canal failed to score tickets to last year’s Glastonbury festival. But the singer-songwriter’s solution wasn’t quite so relatable: Coldplay were headlining, [more…]
Rowan Atkinson at 70: his best films – ranked!
10. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Atkinson is the bumbling Father Gerald, who praises “the Holy Goat”, invites the happy couple to be “Johned [more…]
