In 2005, Sinéad O’Connor and I sat in a dressing room in London together, people-watching and listening, eyeing the music biz swirl around us suspiciously.
Category: Music
Unknown waltz by Chopin found in library vault after nearly 200 years
An unknown waltz by Chopin, written nearly 200 years ago, has been discovered in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.
Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia review – early midlife crisis triggers a freaked-out psychodrama
News of Tyler, the Creator’s seventh album came as something of a surprise: it arrived a matter of months after he announced on social media
‘I wanted a hit!’ Bryan Ferry on recording Slave to Love in Bette Midler’s house
Bryan Ferry, singer, songwriter I’m not a musical detective, but I’d put my money on the inspiration for Slave to Love coming from Prisoner of
Iron & Wine review – shadow puppets and folk-pop combine in singular gig
Sam Beam, better known as his stage name Iron & Wine, is holding court on a crowded stage. Although Iron & Wine is a one-man
‘Julian Cope told me: you’re unemployable in the real world’: David Wrench, the Welsh studio wizard behind pop’s A-list
In 2009, David Wrench was close to giving it all up. He was working as an engineer in a recording studio in north Wales but
Nonclassical at 20 review – synths, screams and bubble wrap as record label celebrates with the LSO
Even seasoned aficionados of avant-garde music are unlikely to have witnessed a musician playing a mini concerto for bubble wrap. But that’s what the composer
Writer Amy Key: ‘Knowing I’d finally hear Joni Mitchell sing live left me woozily panicked’
The last time I was in Los Angeles, in February 2020, I had told a white lie. My taxi driver asked me what I was
Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure | Stewart Lee
The first time I saw the Cure was on 29 April 1984. The Birmingham Odeon show opened with a set from rural Worcestershire’s pre-Raphaelite goths
On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights
Jacques Audiard was born in Paris in 1952, the son of the prolific screenwriter and director Michel Audiard. He began writing films in the mid-1970s