There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a ...

When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which I ended up putting on promotional badges: “BASS CULTURE IS FOLK ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”.

For the first encore of the evening, it was not just the audience but the whole ensemble of Hespèrion XXI that was mesmerised ...

It’s been a long time since an exhibition made me feel physically sick. The Hayward Gallery is currently hosting a ...

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...

It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

Although Mary Halvorson leads the sextet Amaryllis on About Ghosts, instrumentally, she does not place her guitar to the fore ...

Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...

This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ...