Category: Music
Pioneering project by Welsh National Opera suggests music can alleviate chronic pain
Wales is famed as the land of song, the music of the valleys and mountains providing a source of pride, joy and a sense of [more…]
‘I was too shy to tell Bieber how much I loved him’: Lisa from Blackpink’s honest playlist
The first song I fell in love with I’m an only child. My older cousin would come round to play at my house, and she [more…]
Elton John backs Ed Sheeran’s call for UK to put £250m into music education
Elton John, Coldplay, Harry Styles, Stormzy and Central Cee are among the artists backing a call from Ed Sheeran for Keir Starmer to commit £250m [more…]
Thank you Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor – how my 1990s teenage self found somebody to love
I am of a generation that had no name: we slipped down the crack between the spotty cheek of gen X and the well-moisturised buttock [more…]
‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother
When Charlotte Church arrives, she starts to cry. “I break down,” she says, “every time I reach here. It’s the first thing I do when [more…]
FKA twigs review – an eye-popping extravaganza of dancing and demons
Somewhere between a gig, a cutting-edge dance piece and a high-concept club night, the tour for the British multidisciplinary artist FKA twigs’s latest album, Eusexua, [more…]
One to watch: Sebastian Schub
He has only released a handful of songs, but Sebastian Schub’s talent was obvious from the off. The singer-guitarist-pianist-songwriter’s debut single begins by declaiming “I [more…]
Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars: why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London
The DVD slips into the loading tray, and I watch in hope rather than expectation. I’ve been told Tony Palmer’s The Wigan Casino is the [more…]
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie review – a Beatles bromance
‘It’s a drag, isn’t it,” Paul McCartney told reporters quizzing him the day after John Lennon’s murder, a soundbite as dispiritingly muted, even callous, as [more…]
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco: I Said I Loved You First review – besotted but bland
I Said I Love You First makes few bones about its raison d’etre. It comes with cover art that features the betrothed Selena Gomez and [more…]
