Category: Music
Composer Max Richter: ‘I’m a low-key raver! I love all kinds of music’
Born in 1966 in Lower Saxony and brought up in Bedford, Max Richter is an award-winning classical composer. Working across live performance, film, dance, art [more…]
Blur v Oasis was only part of the story: the case for a wider – and wilder – Britpop canon
There are people who could spend all day arguing about Britpop: what it was, what it is, who invented it, when it started and ended, [more…]
Kylie: Tension II review – more of the same is much, much less
It is impossibly easy to root for Kylie Minogue. The Australian pop princess is funny in interviews – see her dry, casual dismissal of the [more…]
‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures
What thoughts would go through the mind of a king exiled from his country for more than a century? What if that monarch took the [more…]
Boybands let girls fall in love for the first time – so grief for Liam Payne is heartbreakingly painful
The first time I fell in love, I was 13. Butterflies fluttered in my stomach constantly. I took any opportunity to mention my love, no [more…]
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – dark, personal and their best since Disintegration
The latter-day history of the Cure is a peculiar thing. They ended the 90s in apparent disarray – the disappointing Wild Mood Swings drew their [more…]
Blossoms review – funky indie-pop singalongs (and a 6ft gorilla) send the crowd wild
In the 11 years since they began rehearsing in the bass player’s grandfather’s scaffold yard, Blossoms have completed a metamorphosis from bowl-cutted indie psychedelic types [more…]
Dua Lipa review – orchestral special boasts Elton John but tips into old-fashioned Eurovision
After an opening medley of End of an Era and Houdini, Dua Lipa starts telling the audience about the many legendary performers who have preceded [more…]
Liam Payne seemed unsure of who he was – but the brutality of fame denied him the chance to find out
When I met Liam Payne five years ago, he was 26 years old and riding high. He was about to release his debut solo album [more…]
Grief and shock at Buenos Aires hotel where Liam Payne died: ‘I came to say goodbye’
The street of the Casa Sur hotel in Buenos Aires, where the One Direction star Liam Payne fell to his death, was quiet on Thursday [more…]
