Category: Music
‘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…]
‘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…]
‘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…]
‘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…]
Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones: ‘I like to fart in front of people. You can tell if someone’s cool from their reaction’
Is it true you nicked some of your early equipment from David Bowie’s trucks outside the Hammersmith Odeon at the last Ziggy Stardust show, in [more…]
On my radar: George the Poet’s cultural highlights
Born George Mpanga in north-west London in 1991, George the Poet is a spoken-word artist, author and podcast host. He studied politics, psychology and sociology [more…]
Perfume Genius: Glory review – full of energy and biting nuance
Death stalks the seventh studio album by feted US singer-songwriter Perfume Genius, nom de plume of Mike Hadreas – but stealthily, not so you’d recognise [more…]
Bryn Terfel: ‘I’d stand on a table and sing Elvis at the drop of a hat’
I had an angelic childhood. I was brought up on a sheep farm in Pant Glas, north Wales, with my older brother Ian. My father [more…]
‘I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back’: Will Smith gets jiggy with the Slap
When you have embarrassed yourself in front of the entire world, as Will Smith did during the 2022 Oscars, you find yourself confronted with two [more…]
