Something extraordinary is going on here. On Michael Kiwanuka’s previous records, he’s worked with producers Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Black Keys) and Inflo (SAULT, Cleo Sol). These two ...

That sound you may be hearing most evenings toward the lower end of St Martin's Lane is likely to be the roof being blown off ...

There were times when this event felt more like a devotional rite than a concert. Thirteen thousand of us had gathered at the ...

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I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world.

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

It was a beautifully constructed programme, with perhaps the exception of the first piece. Haydn’s Variations in F minor Hob. XVII:6 are melancholy, mercurial and full of detailed piano writing: a ...