The apocalypse, Hollywood assures us, will be long and loud and boring, orchestrated and over-determined. In whatever shape it might take, whether asteroid-wide or virus-microscopic, the end is ...

You might call it a choral history. Breach Theatre, however, styles its current production as a documentary musical. Taking its titular inspiration from Before the Act, a 1988 benefit gala organised ...

If I said the words ‘municipal catering’, you would probably recoil in horror. So what I am about to tell you is something of a miracle: a new restaurant has opened in Rochdale Town Hall, and it’s ...

If I said the words ‘municipal catering’, you would probably recoil in horror. So what I am about ...

Poets don’t often talk about how they first found poetry. Like me, they might say that they began writing poems at university during an English degree. If they say that, they are likely lying. The ...

The 1970s was a good decade to be a child if you happened to be drawn to the glossy exotica of American comic books. Not only were its first five years a particularly fertile time for the emergence of ...

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Season Opening Concert Conducted by Domingo Hindoyan. Credit Gareth Jones ...

Many a Liverpudlian who has never darkened the door of the Philharmonic Hall will recognise the face of Domingo Hindoyan, the 44-year-old Venezuelan conductor of the orchestra based there. His image ...

Viewed decades later, the sleeve of Unknown Pleasures anticipates the after-effects of the vinyl it enfolds: its image the radiation signature of a star long dead, its transmissions still detectable ...

From the symbolic solidarity of black and white youths to the punk power of local heroes, Buzzcocks, the vibrant resistance to the rise of 1970s racism by 40,000 people in Manchester on July 15, 1978 ...

What have Gypsy Rose Lee, the legendary queen of burlesque, the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten got in common? They shared a house in Middagh Street in Brooklyn in the early 1940s ...

If I said the words ‘municipal catering’, you would probably recoil in horror. So what I am about ...