If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have ...

It’s unusual to leave an exhibition liking an artist’s work less than when you went in, but Tate Britain’s retrospective of Edward Burra manages to achieve just this. I’ve always loved Burra’s limpid ...

"When I was your age, I worked in a corrugated cardboard factory!" is a phrase my father was fond of telling me as a teenager, presumably in an attempt to extol the virtues of a good Presbyterian work ...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of ...

It amuses me that Dubliners dress up in Edwardian finery on 16 June. After all, this was the date in 1904 when James Joyce ...

Death can be a powerful driver for comedy, as countless stand-ups and sitcom writers will affirm, but it has to be ...

A look at Darling on its 60th anniversary offers a sobering reality check on the "Swinging Sixties", a reminder of the ...

Tate Britain is currently offering two exhibitions for the price of one. Other than being on the same bill, Edward Burra and ...

Tchaikovsky has precisely two operas in the standard repertoire (including The Queen of Spades, currently playing at ...

Jarvis Cocker is proudly holding the No 1 trophy handed to him on the day Pulp topped the album chart for the first time in ...

One of the great untold stories of the past decade is just how potent a cultural force R&B has been. It might not have had the wild musical innovation it did in the 2000s when the likes of Neptunes, ...