It’s a long way up from rock bottom/There’s been times I felt I could fall further.” So runs the opening line of Ed Sheeran’s eighth studio album. It’s delivered with the quavering ...

If you were a devotee of Dmitri Shostakovich whose only opportunity to attend some live performances marking this year’s 50th ...

Ole Gerster’s Islands is a tricksy animal, which doesn’t just keep you guessing about its characters and plot, but about what ...

I love irony. Especially beautiful irony. So I’m very excited about the ironic gesture of staging a show with no words at the ...

You won't find Sam Riley lying at the pool in a holiday resort – unless it's for work. "I'd rather stay home to be honest", ...

Everyone’s favourite angsty pop-punk nerds are back, balancing new with nostalgia and synths with guitars, this is exactly ...

Mind, body, body, mind. Medical science confirms the powerful two-way traffic between emotional and physical health.

Quite why Baxter Dury isn't already a national treasure is a mystery to me. Not for his nepo connections but for his ...

A lot is going on during Yasmine Hamdan’s third solo album. Despite all ten songs of I Remember I Forget بنسى وبتذكر drawing ...

One piece that you’re unlikely to hear at the Lammermuir Festival is Lucia di Lammermoor. As co-director James Waters ...

My final visit to the Proms for this year was a Sunday double-header of the RPO playing Respighi, Milhaud and Vaughan ...

The Coen brothers’ output has been so broad-ranging, and the duo so self-deprecating, that critics have long had difficulty getting their arms around them. Telling stories of distemper in the American ...