The London Jazz Festival swings into town next month - it's time to learn to love the J-word. Richard Godwin takes you from A to Z
Read full article...Drunks, whores and death stalk the songs of the great Belgian singer. It was love on first listen, says Marc Almond.
The devil, as ever, is in the detail. And the devil, I am coming to believe, was born between 1946 and 1964, fully returns the Rolling Stones' sympathy and probably owns a second home in Provence. For the devil is a baby boomer
'And he follows that check with a right uppercut ...' Richard Godwin looks at chessboxing, where you can be both master of the board and king of the ring
Among the delights of the London Transport Museum's forthcoming Suburbia exhibition is a 1930s poster suggesting a journey to the northern reaches of the Piccadilly line. Why?
The Greyhound bus service has just made its first run between Victoria and Southampton. Pausing only to grab his guitar, incurable road romantic Richard Godwin jumped aboard
Among the many curious delights of the British Library's extraordinary audio archive of world and traditional music is a haunting field recording of an Australian aborigine crying for a dead companion
Jay-Z and Beyoncé were unlikely faces in the crowd at a gig of psychedelic rockers Grizzly Bear this week — now the rap king is spreading the word about indie music
Is Spotify ruining music? I ask as a music fan — the very person this revolutionary website is supposed to benefit.
The spa at Oxford’s ‘Ritz’ is a special lair of blameless self-indulgence — but other features fail to live up to its legendary reputation
Nico meets Björk is hardly mosh-pit music — but eerie sounds and childlike vocals make Swedish act Fever Ray the most talked about on the festival circuit.
The French may be fond of telling the English how much better they are at various activities: cooking, painting, lovemaking... but the Englishman always had one trump card up his sleeve: "All well and good, Jean-Claude - but your pop is merde."
Knitwear doyenne Rosita Missoni has brought a dash of fashionista colour to old Edinburgh, as well as an impressive attention to detail
They are the same age, left university at the same time and their tastes in books and music overlap but there the similarities end. Former soldier Patrick Hennessey tells anti-war protester Richard Godwin why he went to Iraq
Retrospect is a fine thing. Back in the Britpop era — a time of Stella Artois and Loaded magazine, Kangol hats and Gareth Southgate, the closest my generation would ever come to a Summer of Love — the band that captured the national mood was Oasis.
Arty bars are attracting life-drawing sessions. What could be more uplifting?
Not only has Edward Gardner, ENO's 34-year-old music director, scored another hit with Peter Grimes this week - he's leading a cultural revolution
"My first pop concert" is a rite of passage that, to judge by our fellow Jubilee line passengers on Sunday night, all crop tops and Hula Hoops, generally takes place between "my first grown-up tooth" and "my first kiss"
There are few places I would rather be than up a tree
There are not many chefs who will enter their dining room wearing a Dennis the Menace pinny, hold an unusually bounteous vegetable aloft and say: "Look at this broccoli! It's bloody massive!"
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