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'Angry, shocked' stage stars fear for future of British arts
AFP, Published on 04/07/2023
» AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France: As a wealth of British theatre and opera maestros cross the Channel to perform at French festivals this summer, many are worried about the state of live arts back home.
Hilary Mantel: bringing ghosts to life
AFP, Published on 23/09/2022
» LONDON: Hilary Mantel, whose death was announced on Friday, communed with ghosts throughout her life: the ghosts from history that stalked her fiction, the ghosts of her Irish Catholic ancestors and the ghosts of her unborn children.
Famed author Hilary Mantel dies at 70
Published on 23/09/2022
» LONDON: Hilary Mantel, the best-selling British author known for her award-winning Wolf Hall historical trilogy, died on Thursday at the age of 70, her publisher said on Friday.
Sting: 'We're in a very dangerous political climate'
Life, AFP, Published on 22/11/2021
» British singer Sting is back at the age of 70 with a hopeful new album, though he admits he sees a lot to worry him in the world right now.
Sting: 'We're in a very dangerous political climate'
AFP, Published on 16/11/2021
» PARIS - British singer Sting is back at the age of 70 with a hopeful new album, though he admits he sees a lot to worry him in the world right now.
UK music stars call on govt to cut post-Brexit tour costs
Life, Published on 28/06/2021
» More than 200 music artists, including Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, backed a campaign last week calling on the British government to reduce costs and red tape to make post-Brexit touring around Europe easier.
Master of spy thriller John le Carre dies at 89
AFP, Published on 14/12/2020
» LONDON: John le Carre, who has died aged 89, shot to fame during the chilly depths of the Cold War as master of the spy thriller, before evolving to become a scathing chronicler of the moral costs of globalisation.
Spitting Image returns with Trump, Johnson in its sights
AFP, Published on 04/10/2020
» LONDON - Spitting Image, the ground-breaking British satirical television show that used grotesque puppets to skewer politicians and public figures, returned Saturday after a 24-year break -- with Boris Johnson and Donald Trump in its sights.
Go further west
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 23/02/2020
» Throughout their decades-spanning career in the music biz, Pet Shop Boys have always operated within the realm of sophisticated synth-pop that advocates varying degrees of dancefloor abandon. For lyricist Neil Tennant and composer Chris Lowe, however, it's not just about the allure of club culture or pure hedonism. From day one, social consciousness gets woven into the sonic fabric of their music. "In a West End town, a dead-end world/ The East End boys and West End girls," Tennant sings about the class and wealth gap on their 1984 debut single West End Girls.
Forever is a long time
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 29/09/2019
» Let's be frank, bands like Metronomy are hard to come by these days. Call us myopic, but we honestly can't think of any up-and-coming groups who would be savvy enough to come up with classic indie jams like A Thing For Me, The Look, The Bay and Everything Goes My Way. A knack for blending eclectic genres seems to come naturally to the UK quartet, a gift that served them especially well from 2008's Nights Out through to 2014's Love Letters.