Clever, emotional – and well worth the hype
I couldn’t get a table at Skof for ages: it was too full, too booked up and far too busy. It seemed there’d be no lightly set miso custard with hen of the w…
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‘We were stubborn teenagers. We didn’t want to be famous’: the inside story of Arctic Monkeys’ frenzied early years ⊕
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In this extract from a new book on Sheffield’s musical history, Monkeys drummer Matt Helders and the cream of the city’s indie scene look back on the febrile mid-00s – from brilliant tunes to ‘brainl…
43 days ago
‘Geordie optimism is this rigorous spirit of hard graft’: Newcastle jazz band Knats break out of the north-south divide ⊕⊕
While their London peers thrived, Knats faced dwindling funding. But after a Proms appearance and as they release a new album produced by Black Midi’s Geordie Greep, their confidence is high
“It’s kin…
53 days ago
No generation is safe from the nostalgia industry – just look at the disappointing Malcolm in the Middle reboot ⊕
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The revival of the hit 2000s sitcom has none of the political subversiveness of the original. But should we be surprised?
One day in the near future, millennials like myself will be shuffling off into…
3 months ago
Fred Again review – guest-heavy homecoming for the golden boy of UK dance is an eclectic triumph ⊕⊕
Alexandra Palace, London
Following a six-night stint in NYC, Fred Gibson returns to London for a brilliant, five-hour melange of his own tracks and wildly energising guest-star mini-sets
Fred Again, AK…
4 months ago
‘Some artists thought it was too political’: can Jarvis, Damon, Olivia Rodrigo and Arctic Monkeys reboot the biggest charity album of the 90s? ⊕⊕
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Oasis, Macca and Radiohead made Help a smash for War Child in 1995. A new reboot packs comparable star power – and was partially produced from a hospital bed
When Kae Tempest was asked to contribute t…
Behind the scenes of Help 2, the star-studded charity album ○
Olivia Rodrigo, Arctic Monkeys and Pulp are among the artists who recorded new songs for War Child.
Arctic Monkeys release first new song since 2022 to benefit War Child ⊖
Opening Night will appear on HELP(2), a charity compilation out in March which also features Olivia Rodrigo, Depeche Mode, Pulp and more
Arctic Monkeys have released Opening Night, their first new son…
6 months ago
The Hives review – veteran punk’n’rollers fizz with megawatt energy ⊕⊕
Depot, Cardiff
Twenty-five years on from their first UK tour, the Swedish band are at their cartoonish, snarling best, eager to prove themselves rather than wallow in nostalgia
‘I’m powering clothes, t…
9 months ago
Starmer's bid to wrap himself up in a Union Jack is as cringe-making and pathetic as Gordon Brown pretending to love the Arctic Monkeys: DAN HODGES ○
The then Chancellor Gordon Brown was asked about what music he liked in an interview in 2006. To widespread incredulity he claimed he woke up to indie band the Arctic Monkeys.