The first series of The Gold in 2023 was received rapturously, though apparently it only told one half of the story of the ...

Marianne Moore once famously defined poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”. Operas also fill, or anyway should ...

If you’re horse mad or merely an every-four-years Olympic fan, you already know Nick Skelton’s story. Equestrianism can ...

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Forest and the Shore” by Keith Christmas is remarkable. In his essay for Gather In The Mushrooms, compiler, author and Saint ...

There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the ...

When Van Morrison last released an album of original songs, during the Covid pandemic, it didn’t go down well. Indeed for ...

Take the title track, Ruth Gipps’ little bassoon and piano duet a winning portrait of a cow mooching about, the final bars ...

John Wick’s simple story of a man and his dog became a bonkers, baroque franchise in record time, converting Keanu Reeves’ ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

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I called caroline “perhaps the best band in the U.K” in my article about their debut, which I named my album of the year.