Bridget Jones has grown up: v.v.g. Our heroine Is still prone to daft pratfalls and gaffes and bursts of sensational idiot ...

This album is SHORT. At 27 minutes and just five tracks, one might wonder why Julienne Dessagne (this is a solo act) didn’t call it an EP. But maybe this is a good way to go in the trenches of the ...

The exhortations don’t seem necessary as the audience is already letting off the steam which has built up in anticipation of ...

When a piece of music is heard for the first time ever, there’s always the delicious hope that, just by being there, an ...

A wonderful release, in other words; the contents sufficient to satisfy anyone’s classical needs for years. It’s also very ...

So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...

Manic Street Preachers’ earnest and literate pretentiousness is both their Achilles Heel and their superpower. Their greatest ...

Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical book Les Années charts a woman’s life across time and space, history and memory, through ...

We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the uptick, therefore, in Greek drama, which includes not one ...

Cyndi Lauper was preceded onstage by a brief video that zipped through her career, which she drily declared was just in case ...

Bowling For Soup are celebrating their iconic album, A Hangover You Don’t Deserve, on a fun filled, energetic tour for its ...