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Utilita Arena, Sheffield It’s an unashamed nostalgia fest, but what could feel business-like morphs into something more considered, with strings, singalongs and even a dedication to brother Noel ‘I haven’t got any fucking new ones for you, so it’s going to have to be an old one, all right?” proclaims Liam Gallagher at one point tonight, during a set...
Korea’s bestselling and relentlessly upbeat guide to getting oldSome people age well. Alan Bennett, for instance, has gradually but inexorably ascended to national treasure status. Others age badly. Take Rudy Giuliani, whose meltdown on live television a couple of years ago took on an unedifyingly literal form, as hair dye trickled down his face. Still...
A rundown block of flats is terrorised by a very hungry arachnid in Kiah Roache-Turner’s taut shocker The latest addition to the well-populated sub-genre of spider-horror (see also Eight Legged Freaks, Arachnophobia, Possum and a whole host of skittering, venomous B-movies), Sting is an effectively grisly Australian production that sees the pet spider...
Straddling the underground and the mainstream, the pop star long felt like an outsider. She talks about finding her crowd, her ‘blunt’ new album, and the more complicated aspects of female friendshipYou used to get one shot in the music business: the wrong marketing, the wrong song and you’d never be heard from again. This was not the case for Charlotte...
Guided walks around Holmes Chapel take in the bakery where the singer used to work and a viaduct featured in a One Direction documentaryIn recent years, the ticket office at Holmes Chapel station in Cheshire has become something of a shrine to the village’s most famous former resident.A lifesize cardboard cutout of the music megastar Harry Styles stands...
The art gallery boss on the role of museums today, the politics of sponsorship and how Cornelia Parker influenced her decision-makingMaria Balshaw, 54, has been the director of Tate since 2017, the first woman to hold the position. She grew up in Northampton, and after university worked as an academic. In 2002, she switched careers, as the director...