Been So Long: My Life and Music
The autobiography of Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is now out in paperback, a book so beautiful it quite literally attracts butterflies. Been So Long charts the musician’s journey from […]
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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
As these are “unprecedented times” (by which I mean a year without Eurovision), here’s a book review: the new novel by the great horror writer Grady Hendrix, in which a […]
Frankenstein at the National Theatre
Mad scientist Victor Frankenstein (Johnny Lee Miller) faces the consequences of the maddest experiment since they made that reality TV host US President, in this production from the National Theatre. […]
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
On the twelfth night of lockdown the NT gave to me… a screening of Twelfth Night for freeee. Currently available for free on YouTube, Shakespeare’s gender-bending romcom is well-suited to […]
Boney M. at Boisdale
On the day of Britain’s exit from one European institution we went to see another, legendary German hit machine Boney M., credited with bringing steel drums to disco music. With […]
Tutankhamun: The Farewell Tour
As part of his final world tour, the original child star Tuntankhamun comes to the Saatchi Gallery in London before taking up permanent residence at a brand spanking new museum […]
Book Review: The Secret Commonwealth
The sequel to 2017’s La Belle Sauvage, and the second part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust ‘equel’ trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth is set nearly two decades later, and […]
Ian McKellan On Stage
Ian McKellen shares readings from his most popular works and anecdotes from his long career in this show to mark his 80th birthday. McKellen begins with a reading from The […]
Hulu’s Veronica Mars
Everyone’s favourite leather jacket-wearing private investigator is back – but enough about the new Shaft movie, here’s Veronica Mars season 4. 5 years on from the fairly forgettable film, the […]
Dark Sublime at Trafalgar Studios
Marina Sirtis plays Marianne, a chain-drinking actor who starred in an obscure ITV sci-fi series 30 years ago. When young fan Oli (Kwaku Mills) gets in touch looking to interview […]
