Like most singers, I used to get heckled at gigs – but if I’m honest, did I secretly enjoy it?
“Concert in San Francisco in the 1990s. Audience complained about sound levels, you replied, ‘You don’t think I’m mixing the…
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Can you ever separate the art from the artist?
Audience defensiveness on the part of the accused isn’t really about the accused at all. It’s about protecting the work.
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Sharon Van Etten’s Remind Me Tomorrow is her best work to date
In Van Etten’s new album, life’s mess is powerful and holding it all in your arms is a creative act.
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Too many Tchaikovskys: The Queen of Spades at the Royal Opera House leaves you cold
It is inconceivable that anyone unfamiliar with the work could have the slightest idea what is going on.
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How Bros chipped away at fame with a butter knife and said “timber” on a very big tree
Yet what was it all for? Most people can only name one Bros song.
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The Lazarus effect: how the music industry saved itself
The collapse of HMV looks like a nail in the coffin for a music industry long declared “dead”. But music…
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The story of musician Phil Miller, king of the Canterbury scene
As a talented improvising guitarist Miller stood out in an unusual scene, but he was even more distinguished as a…
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How George Michael’s “Last Christmas” captures the loneliness of living in the closet
Wham! released the iconic song in 1984. It would be another 14 years before Michael publicly came out as gay.
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