2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (243+ words) Mandy, Indiana are a Mancunian four-piece with a French singer who's based in Berlin. They make a lot of noise. Their second album is a take-no-prisoners amalgamation of electronic squall, thrashy rap (a distant cousin of D'lek), and tints of…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (413+ words) The Arts Desk's team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers' comments, What's On and our user-friendly theatre and film…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (769+ words) A lone slice of cherry pie sits on a plate inside a glass case (pictured below), waiting to be released from its solitary confinement and guzzled by a hungry diner. There it is again, in an eye-watering display of sickly…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (934+ words) The Channel 5 drama Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards does what it says on the tin. We watch the f'ted newsreader from initial online contact with a 17-year-old from Cardiff - called "Ryan Davies" here - to his arrest three years later,…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (565+ words) One miracle of musical performance is that a work you've loved for years can be revealed as never before in an outstanding interpretation. That happened to me last week at the New Ross Piano Festival when 22-year-old pianist Magdalene Cho…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (399+ words) About a dacade ago and then again last year, Seattle's proto-grungers, Melvins and Birmingham's grindcore originators, Napalm Death hit the road with their double-header Savage Imperial Death March tours " scorching the earth and damaging hearing wherever they went. Now, they…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (288+ words) Handel probably wrote his cantata Clori, Tirsi e Fileno in 1707 while he was in the service of the Marquis of Ruspoli in Rome. It tells the story of the shepherdess, Clori, who has two lovers that she plays off against…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (562+ words) Our most adventurous guitarist never does anything twice, at least not in quite the same form. Days after a recital in Dublin's Royal Irish Academy of Music, he included several items from that programme in a unique three-parter. Sean Shibe,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (672+ words) Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing disdain for other people's sensitivities. In Orpha Phelan's dynamic, gleefully idiosyncratic production of Handel's 1724 opera, Trump's shadow looms large, as Tamerlano…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (574+ words) The Arts Desk's team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers' comments, What's On and our user-friendly theatre and film…...