Category: Music
Johnny Mathis, 89, retires from performing due to ‘age and memory issues’
Johnny Mathis, the US pop singer whose career stretches back to 1956, has announced his retirement from performing live. A statement posted to Facebook reads: [more…]
The rapturous return of FKA twigs: ‘I grew up feeling my body could do anything’
‘I had an epiphany recently,” FKA twigs says. You have to love a conversation that starts like that. “Where I sit in the industry now [more…]
Wigmore Hall says it no longer requires public funding
Celebrated classical music venue the Wigmore Hall has succeeded in its aim to raise £10m and will no longer require Arts Council funding, its director [more…]
Ticketmaster may have breached law in pricing Oasis tickets, says CMA
The UK competition watchdog has said that Ticketmaster may have broken consumer protection law in the way it sold more than 900,000 tickets for Oasis’s [more…]
‘It’s so politically loaded’: Marlon Williams on ‘finding the gall’ to write an album entirely in Māori
Marlon Williams recalls a survey he once read about how often people think about death: on average, once a week. He laughs incredulously. “You know [more…]
‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees
In 1965, Micky Dolenz was an architecture student and jobbing actor in Los Angeles, doing the rounds of auditions for TV pilots. As a 10-year-old [more…]
‘They’re still under there, they never got out’: the Futureheads’ Barry Hyde commemorates his mining heritage
When Futureheads singer Barry Hyde was commissioned by Sunderland city council to create an album inspired by the north-east’s mining heritage, he was astonished to [more…]
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…]
