Category: Arts
‘I’d been singing the wrong word for 30 years’: Deacon Blue on how they made Dignity
Ricky Ross, singer, songwriter I was a teacher in Glasgow but I wanted to start a band and write songs that meant something to people. [more…]
Halle Berry says Oscars not designed for black female actors ‘so we have to stop coveting them’
Halle Berry has said she now believes her historic Oscars win in 2002, for Monster’s Ball, was an anomaly, and that fellow black female actors [more…]
‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics
‘Kissed by a witch, I got hexed!” Aya howls through a storm of screaming electronics and bass groans on I Am the Pipe I Hit [more…]
Restless review – relatable real-life horror in nightmare neighbour thriller
First-time feature director Jed Hart starts with a great premise for a low-budget psychological thriller about a very real subject, and he gets good performances [more…]
‘Can kick me out of any funk’: why Sullivan’s Travels is my feelgood movie
I shudder to think who I would have become had I never once been a 13-year-old girl roaming the stacks of a suburban Blockbuster Video. [more…]
‘Society SUCKS!’ The fanatical diary of a teen scribbler who threw herself into punk
There is nothing new to discover, surely, about the birth of punk. But perhaps it depends where you look. Written between 1977 and 1981, the [more…]
‘Drawings do not lie’: film-maker Michel Hazanavicius on his animated feature about the Holocaust
When the acclaimed French film-maker Michel Hazanavicius was approached by his parents’ best friend, the author and playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg, to adapt his fairytale The [more…]
‘I would never be able to sing a song that a robot wrote’: Lucy Dacus on her new album’s themes of artistry and intimacy
In the shadow of a Hogarth painting, accompanied by guitar and violin, Lucy Dacus is singing about disappointment. The painting depicts Thomas Coram, founder of [more…]
Usher review – glitzy Vegas-style spectacle is completely preposterous and preposterously entertaining
Early on during the first show of Usher’s London residency, the audience is treated to the sight of the teenaged singer fantasising about playing London [more…]
Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today
This is a dire moment in the US. It’s a moment where there’s an opportunity for people with a lot of money to rip apart [more…]
