sat 12/10/2024

graeme thomson

Bio
Graeme Thomson has written extensively on music and popular culture for, among others, the Guardian, the Observer, the Telegraph, New Statesman, The Word, Uncut, Time Out, MOJO, Oxford American, Rolling Stone and the Herald. His books include Complicated Shadows, a biography of Elvis Costello, and I Shot a Man in Reno, a widely acclaimed history of death music. His definitive biography of Kate Bush, Under The Ivy, was published in 2010 and described by the Irish Times as "the best music biography in perhaps the past decade".

Articles By Graeme Thomson

latest in today

The Turn of the Screw, English National Opera review - James...

At first, you wonder if the peculiar voice of Henry James’s maybe unreliable narrator can be preserved in this production. Surely the outcome is...

London Film Festival 2024 - the Vatican, the Blitz, a trip t...

Conclave

Director Edward Berger won an...

The Last of the Sea Women review - a moving tale of feisty t...

“The ocean is our home… Even in my next life I will dive again,” says Geum Ok, one of a band of female divers from Jeju, a volcanic island 60...

Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place, Linbury Theatre review - to...

Most of us have been there: an impasse in a marriage, a bereavement in a dysfunctional family. Leonard Bernstein certainly had when he composed...

Album: Justin Adams & Mauro Durante - Sweet Release

Sweet Release opens up a landscape of redemption by riding the rails of a classic ...

First Person: Lindsey Ferrentino on the play that has led Ad...

I turn 36 this year, while living in London and rehearsing my new play The Fear of 13 at the Donmar Warehouse. The cast places a cake on...

Timestalker review – she's lost control again

Unlike the controversial Netflix show Baby Reindeer, which challenges many of the same attitudes towards sexual harassment, self-delusion...

Kanga, Manchester Collective, Singh, RNCM Manchester review...

Of all the inventive and enterprising things Manchester Collective do, it’s most often been the playing of a string ensemble led from first desk...

theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' a...

Before Alice Lowe wrote her first short film scripts, she was, despite success in television and theater, “terrified” of making a full-length...