It's both brave and bracing to welcome new voices to the West End, but sometimes one wonders if such exposure necessarily ...

On the eve of recording an album at Real World Studios, guitarist Adrian Utley and the American trumpet player Eddie ...

Wow, can it really be 40 years since Solitude Standing, the second studio album by Suzanne Vega who put the 1980s folk ...

Transcendence is everywhere in Mahler’s most ambitious symphony, from the flaming opening hymn to the upper reaches in the ...

Sandra” is one of my favourite tracks from my album Between The Moon and the Milkman which was released last year.  While living in Paris a few years ago I shared a flat with an older French lady. We ...

Over its crisp 32 minutes and nine songs, Altogether Stranger embraces electropop, lo-fi terrain and gothic solo ...

When Giuseppe Torelli made the journey from his birthplace of Verona to Bologna in the late 17th century, the trumpet was ...

"Julie's story takes place everywhere", says the writer-director Leonardo Van Dijl, whose pyschologiical drama Julie Keeps ...

Patrick Marber’s powerful debut about gambling men is 30 years old, born as the Eighties entrepreneurial boom was starting to ...

Opera North have recently pioneered a way of presenting some big works which they call “dramatic concert stagings”, ...

Fragile egos abound. An older person (usually a man) has to bring the best out of the stars, but mustn’t neglect the team ...

There’s always been a goofy charm about Billy Idol. As an implausibly chiselled Adonis shining out from the deliberate ...