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It has been twenty-one years since the release of Alkibar, Afel Bocoum’s wandering debut so titled to mean ‘messenger of the great river’. Those two decades have seen Bocoum’s Mali transform from a fledg […]

Exactly ten years ago, Katy Perry announced her arrival as a pop megastar with Teenage Dream. The album received mixed critical reviews on release but would go on to be nominated for seven Grammy […]

We’re going back to the theatres with Back to the Future! It’s true – the musical, based on the 1985 blockbuster and pop culture phenomenon is coming back for its second run on the stage after the pandemic cut it […]

At a lower-key Venice Film Festival than normal thanks to the COVID crisis, Chloé Zhao Nomadland has picked up the Golden Lion award.

Having received rave reviews since its premiere in Venice and subsequently […]

The tale as old as time is set to be told again as Beauty and the Beast sets off on a tour of the UK and Ireland next year.   

With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and based on th […]

The pleasure of a trip to the theatre, with its limited tickets and overpriced ice-creams, is often an expensive hobby that leaves working-class communities behind. This exclusivity is not helped by the fact […]

Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and most recently Bruce Springsteen. What do these artists have in common? Surprisingly, all three have announced album releases throughout the pandemic. 

Springsteen’s next studio al […]

Calls to boycott Mulan are trending on Twitter as Disney’s latest adaptation premiered last Friday.

Following previous criticism surrounding the premium release of Mulan to Disney+—which saw viewers having to […]

When the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 shortlist was first announced, it was evident the judges had a difficult job on their hands, under pressure to pick a winner from some of the most talented writers we have […]

There have been plenty of parodies, spoofs, and rip-offs of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet since its first performance in the late-sixteenth century. In the past decade alone, we’ve had such highs as last yea […]

I first saw Katie Kittermaster supporting Lucy Spraggan at an intimate gig in Norwich in 2019. I remember being drawn to her unique sounding vocals and the honest and captivating way she interacted with the […]

Ubisoft has hosted their second Ubisoft Forward event. Streamed online, the event revealed new details about upcoming releases and new content for their existing titles.

Shortly before the presentation began, […]

There hasn’t been a band so readily embraced and yet so readily critiqued than Scottish synth-pop act CHVRCHES.

On the one hand, the band’s innovative mix of 80s synthpop stylings coupled with modern pro […]

The government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme finished at the end of August (although some businesses have extended their involvement with the scheme) and it was a huge success. The latest statistics show that […]

Last week, an incredible shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award was announced. Anna Burns, Olga Tokarczuk and Tayari Jones, previous winners of the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Women’s […]

The Bronte Parsonage Museum has received a donation of £20,000 from the family of T.S. Eliot following the financial toll taken by the coronavirus on the museum’s profits.

The historic building where the […]

This week, Colin Kaepernick returns to Madden NFL as a top-level free agent, according to an announcement by Electronic Arts on Tuesday. This is following a summer of anti-racism protests, stimulating a renewed […]

Barcelona means long summer nights, drinking sangria by the beach, and secret underground bars. However, by day, Barcelona is a cultural hub traversed with unique Gaudí architecture, home to artists, Gothic […]

The Mandalorian has become one of the flagship shows of the Disney+ streaming platform. Such has been the popularity of the programme that Season Two was practically guaranteed before the final episode aired. As […]

Five months after moving away from their senior royal duties, Harry and Meghan have established their own production company in order to produce various content for the streaming giant Netflix. 

In their […]