Sol Abrahams, singer and guitarist for Essex rock’n’rollers Bilk, was suffering from a bit of guitar trouble in Birmingham on ...

Spare a thought – please – for Leipzig-born pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003). In 1956, she became the very first woman to ...

Ravel celebrations (birth centenary of the former, 150th of the latter) brought Bertrand Chamayou back: after his performance ...

A year ago, after a deeply disappointing Manon Lescaut at Hackney Empire, I wrote here that English Touring Opera had often ...

Steven Knight is beginning to resemble the British version of Taylor Sheridan. While Sheridan has been saturating our screens ...

Hinds don't believe in God. They declared this as they surveyed the converted church that is St Luke's, and given the past ...

In 1964, the Norwegian division of Philips Records began issuing singles labelled “Bergen Beat.” The picture sleeves of 45s by Davy Dean and the Swinging Ballades, Sverre Faaberg and the Young Ones, ...

So, the E minor nocturne has Ott filmed in billowing snow, whereas the C minor No.2 transports us to the Japanese urban ...

Screen stardom is generally anointed at the box office so it's a very real delight to find the fast-rising Jonathan Bailey ...

Longlegs’ trapdoor ending snapped tight on its clammy Lynchian atmosphere and themes, reconfiguring its Silence of the Lambs ...

Who’d be a woman?... Who in their right mind would choose all that?” The question comes towards the end of a conversation ...