Zoe Lyons knows her audience; as a few shoutouts confirmed, many of them are long-time fans, and have had lives with similar highs and lows along the way, and she delivers stories about her life that ...

Huw Watkins’ Concerto for Orchestra, the fourth new work of his to be commissioned and premiered by the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder, is another beautifully crafted and highly appealing construction.It’s ...

Over the years Slade in Flame has been hailed as one of the greatest rock movies (albeit rarely seen or screened), up there with That’ll Be The Day or Performance.Like those films, it has grittiness ...

Who doesn’t love the quirky, passionate and humanitarian genius of Leoš Janáček? All of it, these days. Since Charles Mackerras introduced the UK to a then-unknown, even the less familiar operas have ...

It is a family affair at Supergrass shows these days. There were plenty of parents and offspring filing onto the Barrowland’s ...

I never really got Radiohead, in no small part because of Thom Yorke’s singing. I appreciate his technical abilities and ...

It has never been an exact science understanding when something will capture lightning in a bottle and go viral. Even less ...

Soul Scene,” by Echoes Limited, is built from elements of the James Brown sound. But it’s put together in such a way that the ...

There used to be an unwritten rule among BBC commissioners about how long an interval had to pass before greenlighting a new ...

You don't have to be greeting the modern day with a smile unsupported by events in the wider world to have a field day at ...

The earliest EXAUDI commission is Shadow and Echo and Jade, a 14-minute setting of 3rd century Chinese poetry. Notes and ...

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