The framing device of Knight Fever – that Jazz Emu is desperate to be given the only knighthood awarded by the King this year, and is afraid Clarkson will snaffle it – is laughably shonky but shores ...

Then we flashed back several hours to see the soldier, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), winning his appeal against his conviction for murdering an insurgent in Afghanistan, because of flawed video ...

Ballerinas wore two-pieces and hats in public, smiled, and said little. Pure Fifties. But Seymour was pure Sixties, and then some Besides, there were just so many good girls about in ballet, or they ...

Sadly this is typical of our reboot culture, which prefers the old to the new, nostalgia over experiment, but it does feel like a wasted opportunity. After all, when David Byrne, artistic director of ...

It’s taken me decades to get to grips with Elgar’s Violin Concerto, my Damascene conversion taking place during an accomplished amateur performance I took part in, everything clicking into place ...

However, this album is no cohesive symphonic work that mirrors the likes of Mozart, Philip Glass or even George Gershwin but rather consists of short, ambient and atmospheric pieces that fall more ...

Gauthier is no stranger to reckonings, a survivor whose many battles have been chronicled in brave and powerful songs that have won her numerous accolades. Her lived-in voice – unique, instantly ...

The centre-pieces are two long, reflective, meandering songs, the 11 min 20 sec title song and the slightly shorter “Soon I Might Be Going”. “Second Song”carries you along a slow current that flows ...

Presteigne’s format doesn’t generally include performers chatting to the audience but Humphreys did take a moment to say that she and Pryce were schoolfriends and sometimes shared treble solos in ...

At first glance, an iconic post-modern novel (or, perhaps more accurately, "novel") by Italo Calvino might not seem like the most obvious starting point for a searing condemnation of Zionism and ...