Forest and the Shore” by Keith Christmas is remarkable. In his essay for Gather In The Mushrooms, compiler, author and Saint ...

Marina Diamandis is a proper pop star, brilliantly full-on, off on her own thing. The Welsh singer is primarily known for ...

There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the ...

When Van Morrison last released an album of original songs, during the Covid pandemic, it didn’t go down well. Indeed for ...

Take the title track, Ruth Gipps’ little bassoon and piano duet a winning portrait of a cow mooching about, the final bars ...

John Wick’s simple story of a man and his dog became a bonkers, baroque franchise in record time, converting Keanu Reeves’ ...

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

Botanical forms, lurid and bright, now tower above a footpath on a moor otherwise famed for darkness and frankly terrible ...

I called caroline “perhaps the best band in the U.K” in my article about their debut, which I named my album of the year.

Do you know the name of the propaganda minister of England, or America, or even Stalin? No. But Joseph Goebbels? Everyone ...

No-one needs to be living in Trump’s USA to be aware that governments never feel that it’s in their interest to prioritise ...

With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of global sounds? Fes in Morocco has been presenting its ...