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10 Questions for musician and DJ Pete Tong
Perhaps appropriately, when I called Pete Tong for his 10 questions I...
Album: Paul Weller - An Orchestrated Songbook
It’s a far cry from his beginnings in a tight, no-frills power-pop-post-...
theartsdesk at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival - s...
Film festival chiefs the world over have been having a tricky time...
The Courtauld Gallery - the old place, just better
The Courtauld Gallery’s dark corners have gone, and with them a certain apt melancholy, that effortlessly summoned the ghosts of Gauguin’s ...
Hedvig Mollestad, National Jazz Scene, Oslo review - watch o...
The opening moments don’t suggest what’s coming. A solo flute is followed by a few spoken phrases from a treated voice. What’s being said? It’s...
Feng, CBSO, Wilson, Symphony Hall Birmingham review - effort...
As the conductor of English National Opera’s 2018 production of Porgy and Bess, there can’t be many maestros in the UK who can...
Blue Rose Code, Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham review - sta...
After a two year hiatus (imposed for obvious reasons) Edinburgh-born Liverpool-based...
Album: DJ Harrison - Tales From the Old Dominion
The Californian label Stones Throw has long specialised in inseparably folding together the most profound and most wilfully foolish...
The Power of the Dog review - of rawhide and roses
The archetypal fascinating male in Jane Campion’s...
Paul Weller, Barrowland, Glasgow review - Modfather holding...
There was a brief lapse in this lengthy set when Paul Weller...