In April 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, effectively confiscating privately-held gold from American citizens. This is the ...

Apparently, HAAi’s latest long player was originally meant to be a companion piece to her HUMANiSE album from last year. It clearly soon evolved into a completely stand-alone piece of work though. For ...

As we know now, but did not in 2013 when Bull was first staged, reality TV, like social media, kills people. You can argue ...

Living the unison curve and its attendant shimmer with which Wagner outlines a religious mystery in the Prelude to Parsifal, ...

Now or Never is a slice of classic-era songwriter rock, with her husband Paul Muggleton co-producing, and featuring regular collaborators Mike Paxman and Rhino Edwards (and daughter Bailey). It opens ...

Sebastian Faulks’ Farewell to Eden is a slow-moving, brackish affair; in many ways it is nothing new. Like many of his most ...

Kershaw spent much of the Nineties working with and writing for others. As well as playing with Elton John, he wrote hits including Chesney Hawkes' chart-topper “The One and Only” and material for The ...

Confession is a crazy critter. Isn’t it? I confess that the last time I saw a show at this venue was a year ago: it was The ...

Don't be fooled by New Ross. This quiet Irish country town on the tidal River Barrow with narrow medieval streets, hilly ...

Noel Coward’s youthful writing surge produced dozens of plays, the perennially popular Hay Fever, premiered in 1925, among ...

Tales of the legal profession have given us countless memorable TV moments (Silk, Damages, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Good ...

Blossoms, yet another indie wonder from the ever-so-fertile Northwest, in tune with the Manchester mayor turned PM, have had ...