What with lockdown, rising production costs, rampant inflation, Brexit red tape, and often dwindling audience figures, the UK’s live music...
The 2020 Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced. The prize celebrates the year’s best albums, released between 20th of July...
Anna Meredith has shared ‘Stoop’, a new original piece of work taken from Anno. The new collaboration with the Scottish Ensemble (out...
Below are my favourite albums and compilations, that I have heard in 2016. I have also compiled a playlist of...
Producer and composer Anna Meredith is releasing her latest single ‘The Vapours,’ taken from her Scottish Album of the Year-winning...
Wales Millennium Centre has announced the full line-up for its international arts festival – Festival of Voice – which returns...
Lists are always subjective; increasingly I find combined lists deathly predictable, ripe with flavours of the month and critic proof...
Electric Fields festival can be found in one of the most beautiful settings known to man: in the grounds of...
As the saying goes, “You can’t download a live musical experience” which goes some way to explaining why many of...
Despite the unusually soggy weather, by the end of our four days at Larmer Tree Gardens we are starting to get a sense of why for many people End of the Road is the highlight of their festival calendar.
‘Bumps Per Minute’ is a full-throttle reinvention of the traditional fairground dodgems, from Mercury Award-shortlisted composer, producer and musician Anna...
Visions Festival is one of the stalwarts in the London gig calendar. Every August venues in Hackney open their doors...
There are well over 1000 established music festivals currently in operation. Over one thousand. How in the world can a...
It’s been a bizarre year. Some would say it’s been thoroughly depressing, what with the still ongoing body count of...
From Basia Bulat‘s UK festival debut to Ezra Furman‘s secret sets, from Thurston Moore‘s account of his experiences of London...
