The road not taken: Howard Jacobson on his ambition to be a lyric tenor
“That’s not singing, Jacobson, that’s shouting to music”. With those words my ambition to be a lyric tenor in the…
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In January of this year, Wiley released “Boasty”, a triumphant, bubbling track featuring Stefflon Don, Sean Paul and Idris Elba.…
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E is for Ed Sheeran: How an inoffensive man summed up the musical mood of a decade
This summer, the Ed Sheeran Museum opened in Ipswich, filled with sculpted busts of the singer’s head, and trinkets from…
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Max Martin’s jukebox musical & Juliet is silly, subversive and playfully self-aware
“I may run and hide when you’re screamin’ my name, alright,” sings a chiselled young William Shakespeare as he rises…
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MailOnline’s “I Love Brexit” Glastonbury source is… the reporter behind the story
The Mail’s done some digging at Glastonbury, finding one reveller wearing an unlikely “I Heart Brexit” t-shirt and following him…
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Mercury Prize favourites Sons of Kemet: “We are surrounded by the rise of fascism”
The London band talk British jazz, politics, and what should happen to the monarchy.
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Elton John: Uncensored: a strange case of openness without candour
If Graham Norton’s questions were far from searching, John’s answers were accompanied by neither feeling nor reflection.
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How glossy Christmas adverts changed the music industry
In the spring of 1988, Neil Young released his nineteenth studio album, “This Note’s For You”. A reference to Budweiser’s…
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