There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a ...

When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which I ended up putting on promotional badges: “BASS CULTURE IS FOLK ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”.

For the first encore of the evening, it was not just the audience but the whole ensemble of Hespèrion XXI that was mesmerised ...

It’s been a long time since an exhibition made me feel physically sick. The Hayward Gallery is currently hosting a ...

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...

The slightly overwrought subtitle gives a good indication how computer enthusiast Sam Arbesman treats his subject. Software, ...

It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

Although Mary Halvorson leads the sextet Amaryllis on About Ghosts, instrumentally, she does not place her guitar to the fore ...

Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...