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“How to listen to our new LP if you are an established fan. Have a drink. Understand it’s not Sinister, Tigermilk or Arab Strap. Understand we can’t take you back to those days and the way you felt then.” These w […]

Joining the ranks of Young Royals, I Am Not Okay With This, and Love, Victor, a new binge-able LGBTQ+ teen show has entered the scene. Heartstopper is a light-hearted queer romance based on the best-selling […]

Markus Zusak’s bestselling novel The Book Thief is set to become a musical at Bolton Octagon Theatre.

The show will premiere in September 2022, and will be directed by the theatre’s artistic director, Lotte […]

Books are the mirror of history, for without them there would be no records of the past to share or changing ideas to convey. Books are affected by many events that have taken place throughout history from world […]

In the highly anticipated sequel to 2019’s Downton Abbey, A New Era uncovers a mystery surrounding an unexpected inheritance.

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In a nutshell, A New Era feels like coming home. It’s a witty and c […]

We just love witnessing legendary singing duos. The legacy of Madonna and  Britney Spears, Eve and Gwen Stefany, and t.A.tu continues after the release of Two Ribbons by Norfolk multi-instrumentalist duo Let’s Ea […]

A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë, Sold by Nobody and Printed by Herself has returned home to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire after it was thought lost.

Measuring just 10cm by 6cm, t […]

HarperCollins’s Little Big Book Club, which is facilitated in partnership with the National Literacy Trust (NLT), is being rolled out to 65 schools across the UK after a successful pilot last year.

The project […]

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In 1936, 27 boys and their teacher go up a mountain in the Black Forest. By that evening, five of the boys will be dead; the Hitler Youth will take the credit; their teacher will be exonerated; and nearl […]

Back in 2002, horror director Sam Raimi seemed like a strange choice to bring one of the world’s most iconic superheroes, Spider-Man, to the big screen.

Such doubts feel like a distant memory now. Raimi’s c […]

“Where’s my all soul sistas? Lemme hear ya’ll flow sisters”

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We met Mulan down in Ancient China… or more accurately, in an unassuming entertainment space nestled underneath Waterloo Station.

Fou […]

Though short-lived, Sleeper’s first outing encompassed three albums including top-five records Smart and The It Girl. Sleeper are currently touring the latter album as part of a postponed 25-year anniversary c […]

Heading to Manchester’s iconic Albert Hall, Lana Williams catches The K’s at the beginning of their UK tour.

Photos by Lana Williams

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I remember the first time I heard of Burn After Reading. It was courtesy of an opening feature trailer for a DVD I watched when I was about ten years old. At the time, I can remember being both scared and […]

The hit West End production of Heathers the Musical will be filmed.

Heathers is a musical adaptation of the film of the same name. Directed by Andy Fickman, it has choreography by Gary Lloyd. The book, music […]

Director Nayib Ayouch takes to the streets of Casablanca in this musical drama that offers an emotionally resonant insight into the Moroccan youth of today. 

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In 2014, Franco-Morrocan director N […]

The insatiable six-piece, Walt Disco, have circulated amongst the pulse of the Glasgow music scene for a few years now, and in the past year the rest of the world are just managing to keep up with their peppery […]

Like so many other art forms in the 1950s and 1960s, the post-war British theatre was in a state of flux. The upper-class comedies of manners of Terence Rattigan and Noel Coward were giving way to the kitchen […]

May’s gaming releases will take players to new worlds in both the past and the future, taking on deadly missions to save their homelands from dangers both magical and militant while also expanding the worlds a […]