Music to eco-conscious ears: 10 sustainable festivals in the UK and Europe | Festivals

concert crowd in a glass-roofed space

Plastic cutlery, abandoned tents, artists flown in to perform … the traditional music festival has not been a bastion of eco-friendliness. Now several UK and European events are introducing measures to reduce their impact, using […]

A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again | Television

Olivia Colman and Shalom Brune-Franklin in Great Expectations.

Television needs to stop rolling out Charles Dickens adaptations – and this is coming from someone whose lockdown project was writing an Oliver Twist prequel about Nancy (binned after three chapters due to insufficient oom-pah-pah). […]

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: The New Division, Lana Del Rey, and Depeche Mode

The New Division

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: The New Division, Lana Del Rey, and Depeche Mode The New Division image not cited on original March 27, 2023 There’s so much good […]

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves | Books

Madeline Miller.

From Circe to Medusa via Persephone, Electra and the women of Troy, it seems there are few characters from Greek mythology left who haven’t been the subject of a feminist retelling in recent years. This […]

Brandy Returns as Cinderella in This First Look at Disney’s DESCENDANTS: THE RISE OF RED

split image of 1997 Cinderella and Prince Charming and 2023 characters played by Brandy and Paolo Montalban

There are many iterations of the famous Cinderella, from the blonde and blue-eyed 1950s animated one to Camilla Cabello’s ambitious (and brunette) version of the character. But for a lot of ‘90s kids, especially Black […]

Black Country, New Road: Live at Bush Hall review – magical resurgence by this odd little chamber orchestra | Black Country, New Road

The artwork for Live at Bush Hall.

Having already changed frontman once when they formed out of previous band Nervous Conditions, UK indie troupe Black Country, New Road have regrouped again after Isaac Wood left to focus on his mental health in […]

Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen | Charles Dickens

Dev Patel, Rosalind Eleazar and Hugh Laurie in The Personal History of David Copperfield.

What is it about Great Expectations? Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s new dramatisation of Dickens’s novel is the seventh BBC adaptation – the first appearing on screens in 1954. Cinema has loved it too. David […]

Raye: ‘There are 100 royalty points on a record & record labels are taking eighty points for marketing’ – Music News

Raye: 'There are 100 royalty points on a record & record labels are taking eighty points for marketing' - Music News

Raye is the focus of the latest Amazon Music’s +44 Podcast, hosted by Zeze Millz and David “Sideman” Whitely. Raye discusses topics such as leaving her old record label to become independent, her thoughts on […]

‘One of New Zealand’s great moments’: how OMC’s How Bizarre became – and remained – a hit | Music

Pauly Fuemana.

Twenty-seven years ago this April, a curious Kiwi track jumped to No 1 on the Australian music charts. How Bizarre by OMC (which stands for Ōtara Millionaires Club, made up of frontman Pauly Fuemana and […]