Patricia Cumper
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Album: Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings
Together for over 20 years and with a string of incredibly successful albums, the Scottish trio return with a ninth release that offers more of...
Fanny and Stella, Garden Theatre review - a saucy slice of q...
In a purgatorial summer, this boisterous, camp and chaotically charming musical is a tonic. It’s a winning combination of slick and slapdash,...
Cuba: Castro vs the World, BBC Two - turbulent life and time...
During World War Two, President Franklin D Roosevelt described the USA as “the arsenal of democracy”. Only a couple of decades later, Fidel Castro...
The Telephone, Scottish Opera/Cargill, RSNO, Søndergård, Edi...
Lockdown, perhaps more than any other time, has amplified how ...
New Music Unlocked 5: Biffy Clyro, Rave the Vote, Little Sim...
Although Metallica are screening a freshly recorded concert across America’s drive-in cinemas at the end of the month, we’re no nearer to actual...
Album: James Dean Bradfield - Even In Exile
One of the most evocative tracks on James Dean Bradfield’s second solo album is hardly his at all. The Manic Street Preacher takes “La...
Matt Haig: The Midnight Library review - an uplifting modern...
TW: This article discusses suicide, suicidal ideation, antidepressants and self-harm
We first meet Nora Seed, “nineteen years before...
The Adulterer, Channel 4 review - atmospheric, addictive and...
It has taken a good half decade for the Dutch series ...
Blindness, Donmar Warehouse review - a beautifully haunting...
Wowee! Twenty weeks after the last time I set foot in a theatre, I...
The Encore, Opera Holland Park review - stylish return for a...
As Dvořák’s "Song to the Moon" from ...