Helen Wallace
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By day three of any festival things are usually winding down. But there’s a sense that Love Supreme have saved the best for last this year with a...

Last year’s relatively slimline East Neuk Festival felt like a feast in time of plague. This July everything was back to full strength in numerous...

A sequel is always a hard thing to write, especially if the book that precedes it is a bestseller, adapted for television and read by more than a...

The third album from Stockholm rowdies Viagra Boys doesn’t muck about with what they do, but it’s more persistently punkin’ than their last. There...

At the beginning of this film, Mick Jagger says: “What most...

Reviewing the Grange Festival production of Tamerlano the other day, I noted the difficulty...

Where should Leila live — Ilford or Kent? It doesn’t sound like an earth-shattering decision for a 15-year-old to make, but the stakes...

The last minute of Found Light’s third track “Seaside Haiku” is defined by the repetition of a single phrase: “give but don’t give too...

Oghneya opens with the extraordinary “Matar Al Sabah.” Jazzy, with an overt Brazilian feel it gently swings and swoons....

Pinocchio is one of our most irreverent metamorphosis stories, and in this visually ingenious blend of...