Florence and The Machine: Dance Fever Tour Review
"It takes a powerful vulnerability to shoulder the burdens and joys of helping others, through art or any other means. Welch does it beautifully"
In Conversation With Velvet
"If you haven’t heard of them, you should have."
Night at the Sheldonian: Oxford Millennium Orchestra Play Bruch, Beethoven and Schumann
"Out from the November night an easy orange glow invited me into the Sheldonian. I trotted up creaking stairs to the top floor, into the jaws of death – the jaws of death being an archaically unintuitive seating set up. The seats on the upper stalls are just three big steps – if you arrive late, sidling along the upper rows in front of those already seated requires deft footwork and a lot of 'excuse me's."
The return of live music: Nick Cave’s ‘Idiot Prayer’
Of the many cultural events 2020 has cruelly snatched away
from us, the loss of live music is perhaps the one that has hit the...
Six of the best: live albums
With the absence of ordinary gigs from our venues seeming certain to continue, our focus this week is on finding other ways to get...
A love letter to Oxford’s music scene
In a city of dreaming spires, where casual magic hangs in every cobbled lane at golden hour and each paradisal quad in bloom, I...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: 50 years on
In the spring of 1970, 50 years ago, a collection of
musicians underwent the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, which came to be immortalised
in a...
