Composing Modern Musicals: In Conversation with Dougal Irvine
Teddy the Musical is transforming London’s Vaults beneath Waterloo into Elephant and Castle...
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Multiple Spotlights: In Conversation with Carrie Hope Fletcher
Carrie Hope Fletcher. Musical theatre star, best-selling author, internet star, and now releasing...
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Visualising Music: ‘Colours’ by Dimitri Scarlato
In his new project Colours, composer and conductor Dimitri Scarlato journeys through an aural...
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Out of the Wings and into the Spotlight: In Conversation with Natasha Barnes
Natasha Barnes hit the media in a major way when she stepped into the role of Fanny Bryce after...
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New Routes, Medieval Roots: The Medieval Aesthetic and The Green Man Festival
The Green Man towers over us in the middle of a hilltop field, the face-of-foliage smiling skyward. His livery of greenery rustles gently in the wind. Behind him curls a snarling red dragon, and together they make a flammable tableau of medieval mythologies. It is a wet weekend in August at the Green Man Festival in Brecknockshire, rural Wales.
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‘The Marriage of Kim K’: Reality Opera
The Marriage of Kim K C Venues, C (Venue 43) Until Aug 28 at 21:50 Box Office Adults £12.50 /...
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The Shires and the Nationalist Paradoxes of British Country Music
Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes make up The Shires, a country duo who have found moderate success in...
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Camus, Dylan, and the Nobel Prize: Writers in the Spotlight
2017 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Albert Camus being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature....
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Pushing Boundaries: in Conversation with Jazz Plus Productions
Founded in 2015, Jazz Plus Productions have an explicit “desire to uproot the UK jazz scene”.[1]...
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DAMN son, where’d you find this? – Thoughts on Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar released his fourth studio album last week, entitled simply, DAMN. Like previous...
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‘More Life’ by Drake and ‘HNDRXX’ by Future: New Approaches
Frequent collaborators Drake and Future make for interesting musical bedfellows, though it is easy...
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Brody Dalle: Punk Queen
2003 shaped my life. I finally reached double digits (plus the lofty heights of Year 6 to boot)...
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A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours: Digital Innovation and the Music Industry
How Soon is Now? Music, as a form of expression, has changed very little in human history; what...
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“You Think I Give a F—k About a Grammy?”: Outlandish Expectations of Outdated Awards
“You think I give a fuck about a Grammy? Half of you critics can’t even stomach me, let alone...
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Ed Sheeran and the Romance of Class
In December 2015 Ed Sheeran announced a break from his phone, emails, and social media. Explaining...
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