Albums: Jamie T Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning)
Jamie T Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning) Tracks: 3310, Cocktail, Waist 36 Leg 32, All I Wanna See Is Now, The Won, Chelsea Girls, Ghosts, Crimson & Clover, Crucible, Caught Cheating, Tallahassee Label: Polydor Jamie T has always sounded like an artist with one foot in the present and the other caught somewhere in the past.
Opera North And Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
The 1980s were turbulent times for the Soviet Union. The death of the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, in 1981, and the slow-slow-quick-quick-slow waltz of the regime toward its collapse and eventual dissolution in 1992.
Albums: NY Loose Monolith Kids
Led by the formidable Brijitte West, NY Loose was one of the great underground secrets of mid-’90s New York rock. They had the swagger, the sleaze, the guitars and, crucially, the songs. Their 1995 Loosen Up! EP helped build a devoted following before Hollywood Records came calling, eventually releasing the band’s debut album, Year of the Rat, in 1996. Yet despite touring with the likes of L7 and Marilyn Manson and seeing their brilliant track Spit appears on The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack – the commercial breakthrough never arrived.
Albums: Walt Disco Walt Disco
There is something fitting about calling your third album Walt Disco. After two records spent pushing, pulling and occasionally losing themselves in different directions, the Glasgow band have arrived at a record that feels less like a reinvention than an acceptance of everything they have already been. It is a statement of identity, certainly, but not one delivered with the certainty of a band who have finally solved themselves. Instead, Walt Disco finds its strength in the messiness of becoming.
Albums: Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens
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The biggest surprise arrives with Uppha’. An acoustic, folk-inflected piece, it is the kind of detour that could easily have sounded like a novelty. Instead, it provides the album with atmosphere and breathing space, allowing the mythology at the heart of Amon Amarth’s music to emerge without the usual wall of distortion
Close Enough To Touch writer Henry Roberts Talks About His New Play, The Joy Of Theatre And Why We Need To Tell Different Types Of Stories On Stage
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Henry is a writer, playwright and photographer. Originally from Lancashire, he is now based in London. In 2025 and 2026, he was longlisted for The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. Henry’s plays have been performed at Theatre503, Riverside Studios, Camden People's Theatre and other theatres in London and Edinburgh.
Album Review: Bróna McVittie Supernatural
What makes the album particularly compelling is the way McVittie brings together the warmth and intimacy of the harp and traditional vocal styles with atmospheric electronic production. Rather than feeling like a clash of old and new, these elements compliment one another beautifully, giving the music a distinctive identity that is at once organic, otherworldly and modern.
If Cats Could Talk: At Warble’s Bar By Galahad Porter
Lucy is pregnant after a one-night stand with Sam from Brooklyn. The thing is that’s all she knows about him even if she does still feel that the spark between them was real. The novel opens with a somewhat rebellious Lucy (real name Lucia) working in a bar in Brooklyn, having travelled from Italy, to try to find Sam.
Classical Music: Gershwin Variations
Some recordings politely ask for your attention. This one pulls up a stool at the bar, loosens its tie and calls for another round. For anyone who loves Gershwin and the jazz idiom, Lucas Debargue's Gershwin Variations is a double album to treasure: it fizzes, it swings and it oozes panache from first bar to last.
The first disc, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris, pairs Debargue with the Orchestre de Paris under Elim Chan. The Piano Concerto in F skips along with real clarity, the orchestration crisp, the syncopations relished and the percussion crackling with rhythmic fervour.
Classical Music: Softest Thunder
There is a particular kind of disc that asks you to switch off the radio, put the phone in a drawer and simply listen. Toby Carr's debut solo recording for Delphian is one of them, and it repays the effort many times over.
Carr will already be familiar to many from Battle Cry, his duo album with the mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, which collected both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine awards in 2023. Here he steps out alone, and the result is an atmospheric, quietly absorbing recital.
Classical Music: Sol Gabetta Saint-Saëns & Lalo Cello Concertos
Her playing is fluent throughout, her agility impressive and her rhythmic precision unerring, while soloist and orchestra alike embrace the full Romantic sweep of these scores. Period instruments are often sold as a corrective to excess; here they serve the opposite purpose, lending these concertos a warmth and freshness that makes a persuasive case for all three.
Albums: Dead Poet Society – Monarch
What makes Monarch stand out is its refusal to choose between experimentation and accessibility. There are enormous hooks here, but they come wrapped in warped guitars, unconventional rhythms and enough darkness to stop proceedings becoming predictable.
Why Nostalgia Is Thriving In The Digital Age
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In a world that refreshes itself by the second, the past has never felt more appealing. Scroll for long enough and you will eventually run into it in the form of a clip from an old TV show, a song you had forgotten you loved, a photo from years ago that feels strangely close.
Venus At Midnight: The Amygdala Safari By Carmella de Keyser
Carmella de Keyser is at her most persuasive when in freefall: plummeting through the ‘cyan blue’ with Icarean abandon and crossing borders of the senses as though synaesthetic apprehension were a most natural condition of understanding, the poet promulgates a new aesthetic, subordinating all formal considerations to the moment of pure invigoration.
There’s A Monster In Your Show
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Based on the best-selling book series Who’s in Your Book?, There’s a Monster in Your Show brings all your favourite characters from the page to the stage! Featuring original music by series author Tom Fletcher (McFly, Paddington The Musical), this show is a magical musical whirlwind, perfect for little ones with big imaginations.
Classical Music: The Beethoven Connection Volume 2
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has a gift for turning musical archaeology into pure pleasure. In this second volume of The Beethoven Connection he has unearthed some lovely pieces, and he plays them with passion and a beautiful tone from his Yamaha piano. His sensitivity, expressiveness and virtuosity shine throughout the recital.
Albums: Teenage Fanclub Do Not Dare To Dream
Following the Fannies’ 2023 Nothing Lasts Forever and last year’s side-project Butler, Blake & Grant, Blake and (day job) co. return with Teenage Fanclub’s 13th full-length album. Opening with There Was You, a playful, folksy and upbeat song about how magical surprises can interrupt otherwise predetermined lives, Do Not Dare To Dream gets off to an engaging start. There’s an easy warmth to the song, but also a sense that the album might be setting its ambitions rather lower than some of the band’s finest work.
Album Review: Everyone Says Hi Funny Cos It's True
At its heart, this is hook-heavy, groove-forward indie pop with a wonderfully hazy, retro-futurist sheen. The songs are packed with infectious melodies and big, anthemic choruses, while the warm production gives the record a timeless quality. There are echoes of classic songwriting craft alongside more psychedelic, contemporary textures, making the album feel both familiar and fresh.
Albums: Troye Sivan She's the Best
Olivia Bax: Double Take
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents Double Take by Olivia Bax, a vibrant exhibition bringing together 20 new and recent sculptures that revel in the joy of the familiar and the invented. Double Take celebrates Bax’s distinctive combining of materials, colour and construction techniques to reveal new relationships between objects, spaces and the ways we experience them.
Rank's Gong To Sound Again On Hull's Waterfront
For half a century, a bare-chested man striking a gong told British cinema audiences the main feature was about to begin. Now that image is to be reborn as a permanent sculpture beside the Humber, reports Group Editor Andrew Palmer. Nobody will be hitting this gong, however. Annabel McCourt's design takes it apart.
Why Has Britain Fallen In Love With Running?
Running is having a moment. From the explosion of parkrun and social running clubs to record demand for major races, more of us are pulling on our trainers, and it isn't just the hardcore pounding the streets chasing personal bests. For some, it's about fitness. For others, it's about headspace, friendship, confidence, escape, or simply an excuse to get out of the house.
Harriet: Trying To Get The Feeling Again
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With more than one million social media followers, over 100 million views and sold-out shows on both sides of the Atlantic, Harriet has had a remarkable rise over the past two years. Now, the British singer-songwriter is bringing her acclaimed Trying To Get The Feeling Again show back home to the UK this autumn, this time with her full live band.
Hear'Say and Liberty X return for co-headline tour!
Hear'Say and Liberty X are back and better than ever as they head on a UK and Ireland tour in 2027. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their formation, Hear’Say and Liberty X have announced details of their upcoming tour - ‘Popstars: The Originals’ which will see both bands perform together for the first time ever on the same stage.
The Pussycat Dolls Land On Their Feet In Leeds
When The Pussycat Dolls toured the country in 2009, the support acts were Ne-Yo and a new artist who had initially had success in France by the name of Lady GaGa.
Film Review: Sense And Sensibility (2026)
Just to get it out of the way, I am not a Jane Austen-er. Or whatever it is Austen fans call themselves on her Reddit page (a quick Google and apparently it’s ‘Janeites’. Personally I’d have gone for Austeneers or maybe Austenauts but that’s not what I’m reviewing today).
Record-Breaking Ryedale Festival Announces New Christmas By Candlelight Concerts
Following a record-breaking summer, Ryedale Festival has announced two special Christmas concerts by candlelight, bringing Royal Northern Sinfonia and acclaimed vocal ensemble APOLLO5 to North Yorkshire this December. The announcement follows the Festival’s most successful year to date, with nearly 11,000 tickets sold, almost 10% more than the previous year.
Zack Gibson has figured it out...
At just 17, Scottish singer-songwriter Zack Gibson is already establishing himself as one of the most compelling young artists in Scotland’s new acoustic pop scene.
From Crime Scenes To Crime Fiction: Former Yorkshire Police Officer Launches New Thriller
Otley crime writer Colin Campbell draws on 30 years of real-life policing – including 15 years working on crime scenes – for the latest adventure featuring his uncompromising Yorkshire cop. A retired West Yorkshire Police officer who spent 15 years dealing with real-life crime scenes has drawn on three decades at the sharp end of policing for his latest crime thriller.
Sleeper announce End of the World tour
Sleeper have announced their biggest UK tour since reforming, with the band set to take their forthcoming sixth studio album, End of the World, on the road across the UK in March and April 2027, with South London four-piece Turin Brakes joining them as special guests.