Sol Abrahams, singer and guitarist for Essex rock’n’rollers Bilk, was suffering from a bit of guitar trouble in Birmingham on ...

Spare a thought – please – for Leipzig-born pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003). In 1956, she became the very first woman to ...

A year ago, after a deeply disappointing Manon Lescaut at Hackney Empire, I wrote here that English Touring Opera had often ...

Ravel celebrations (birth centenary of the former, 150th of the latter) brought Bertrand Chamayou back: after his performance of the G major piano concerto in January, this time it was as soloist in ...

Steven Knight is beginning to resemble the British version of Taylor Sheridan. While Sheridan has been saturating our screens ...

Hinds don't believe in God. They declared this as they surveyed the converted church that is St Luke's, and given the past ...

One of them, Jo, has just had a baby. The other, Harry, has taken hormones to transition from being a man to being a woman. In answer to the question, Harry replies, “No-one does though, do they?

So, the E minor nocturne has Ott filmed in billowing snow, whereas the C minor No.2 transports us to the Japanese urban ...

Screen stardom is generally anointed at the box office so it's a very real delight to find the fast-rising Jonathan Bailey ...

In 1964, the Norwegian division of Philips Records began issuing singles labelled “Bergen Beat.” The picture sleeves of 45s by Davy Dean and the Swinging Ballades, Sverre Faaberg and the Young Ones, ...

Longlegs’ trapdoor ending snapped tight on its clammy Lynchian atmosphere and themes, reconfiguring its Silence of the Lambs ...