Another “complete piano works” and anniversary crossover was Lucas Debargue’s 4 CD set of Fauré (Sony) marking the centenary of his death. It charts the composer’s progression from mid-19th century ...

Beth Gibbons’s latest album touched me more deeply than most of what I heard in 2024. She’s true to herself and honest in a way that’s extraordinarily disarming. Her vulnerability matches, in a ...

The most hyped special of the season came to a cosy comedy ending with pairings accomplished, evil witch Sonia and her coven dispatched and the usual everyday chaos reinstated. Tidy.Except that I ...

Katherine Priddy released a winter single with the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, “Close Season”, wrapping the spirit of winter and snowfall into the uncertainty and possession of attraction, ...

It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded ...

Ireland takes the palm for best of 2024, with Wexford hitting comic heights among its three rarities in Donizettian ...

From the iconic Pop anthems that dominated this Summer, to the Pop Punk resurgence that is still going strong, it’s been an ...

In April 2023 the actor and comic Jamie Foxx had a stroke and was lucky to survive. In his latest Netflix Special, What Had ...

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Someone told me recently that Netflix subscribers can view just 22 films made before 1980. I've no idea if this is true ...