As a teenager, Martin Kanja spent countless late nights listening to heavy metal on a local radio show. The furious riffs, shrieks, growls and distorted
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The Pogues review – triumphant tribute to energy and poetry of band’s early days
With late frontman Shane MacGowan replaced by a succession of guests, this 40th anniversary show for the Pogues’ debut album, Red Roses For Me, could
Free Madonna concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach
With the world-famous statue towering over it from Corcovado mountain, Rio de Janeiro is well used to Christ the Redeemer. For one night only this
Keane review – note-perfect return with added emotional wallop
After the chart-steamrollering success of their 2004 debut album Hopes and Fears, singer Tom Chaplin’s drug and alcohol addiction meant things had gone badly awry
Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review – a banger-filled missive from dating land
Dua Lipa’s last album, 2020’s Future Nostalgia, moved the cultural dial. Released into the pandemic, it was ubiquitous, neon-hued and life-affirming, winning two Brits and
Unknown singer stands in for Olly Murs at last-minute as Take That support in Glasgow
A Scottish singer has said he is “still on a high” after being plucked from obscurity to replace Olly Murs as the opening act for
Sabrina Carpenter: how the Espresso singer became a piping hot pop prospect
Capped with one of the most brilliantly nonsensical chorus lines in pop history – “That’s that me, espresso” – Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso is the most
Keane’s Tom Chaplin and Tim Rice-Oxley look back: ‘Long friendships are like a marriage. You have to adapt to each other’s madness’
Tom Chaplin and Tim Rice-Oxley are childhood friends and founding members of Keane, a group from Battle, East Sussex. The band formed in 1995 and released
Sharleen Spiteri: ‘I love getting old – I love the freedom it allows you’
Born in Scotland, Sharleen Spiteri, 56, worked as a hairdresser before forming Texas with Johnny McElhone aged 17. They went on to have hits I
‘When I became a meme it was humiliating and hurtful’: Dua Lipa on pop, psychedelics and proving her haters wrong
The London hotel room is huge, with a grand piano in one corner. In the middle is a stash of crisps, nuts and drinks, laid