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Good Friday and the days before it are times to contemplate Bach's great passions - the St Matthew was performed at the Baden-Baden Easter…

It was something of a miracle how long They Might Be Giants managed to preserve their trademark madcap optimism intact. It lasted right…

It’s not often I feel guilty about making an assessment of a set almost instantly after making it. The support act for the first full-band…

François Ozon has typically filtered his version of Albert Camus's existential novella The Stranger through his cool, ironic sensibility,…

Stories about slavery tend to be simplistic: white perpetrators are bad, black victims good. One of the more striking features of Winsome…

David Mackenzie’s second superbly marshalled thriller in a year makes an unexploded bomb the backdrop for a London heist and its chaotic…

Sarah Millican is at an age where she is pausing to reflect and in Late Bloomer, her most recent show – shown as a special on Channel 4 and…

Johnny Franck’s energy is palpable with the latest Bilmuri instalment, his signature comedic country metalcore style is as honed as ever…

The opening track is Hoyt Axton’s “Evangelina.” After first appearing on the 1976 album Fearless it was re-recorded and issued as a flop UK…