Two musicians and two audience members, but the show had to go on
The hardest part of attending an accidentally private gig, I learned, was knowing the applause etiquette and what to do…
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A fifth of festival-goers have faced unwanted sexual behaviour. Here’s how we stop it
Many festivals still have no policies or procedures in place to tackle the alarming numbers of people being harassed and assaulted…
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“Sorted for McD’s and Jez” – Pulp, rewritten for Labour Live
Ahead of the Labour Live festival this weekend, we asked Jarvis Cocker (oh all right, Marie Le Conte) to reimagine…
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Treating drill rappers like terrorists is a colossal mistake
Blaming music for youth violence is neither just nor helpful. Policing it with terrorism legislation is madness.
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Arctic Monkeys at the Royal Albert Hall: perfectly cheesy dad rocker moves
This was a homecoming for a band who haven’t played live in the UK for nearly four years.
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Loreena McKennitt has sold 15 million records – but she’d rather talk about air-sea rescue
The Canadian queen of Celtic music is honorary colonel of the Royal Canadian Airforce.
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Lost boy: the meanings and motivations of Michael Jackson
Jackson wanted his career to be “the greatest show on earth”, but he paid for it with his childhood.
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The best music writing is done by people who don’t always write about music
Jake Shears’s memoir, Boys Keep Swinging, is a current example, packed with sharply told stories and proper moments of insider insight.
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