Category : Focus

‘Only three more songs till I kick your ass!’ Rock’n’roll’s biggest onstage bust-ups

Jane’s Addiction’s future is in doubt after a mid-song spat last weekend – but from the Kinks to Oasis, such squabbles are extremely commonBoston bust-up as bandmates brawl at Jane’s Addiction reunion gigLong before they decided All You Need Is Love,...

‘Every face tells a story’: Teresa Margolles on putting 740 trans lives on the fourth plinth

The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube in Trafalgar SquareTeresa Margolles is standing in a war...

Die Meistersinger review – some fine solo turns but Wagner’s score is done few favours

Saffron Hall, Saffron WaldenThe ambitious Saffron Opera Group’s concert performance of Wagner’s opera had lost its leading man, but the orchestra proved more of a problemOutside, interval conversation involves the intermittent roar of aircraft landin...

Post your questions for Ice-T

As his heavy metal band Body Count return, the vocalist and actor will answer questions about his varied careerWith a scorn-dripping voice put to work on everything from classic hip-hop to gnarly heavy metal, Ice-T is one of America’s most iconic MCs...

Tracey Emin among hundreds opposing changes to Margate ‘brutalist masterpiece’

Managers of building in which Emin owns a flat want to replace windows but opponents say they are a key featureThe 18-storey Arlington House in Margate has long been considered a brutalist masterpiece. It inspired the English rock band Hawkwind’s son...

‘It would not get made today’: Todd Solondz on his shocking paedophile film Happiness

‘It’s about a guy who has this horrible private obsession but doesn’t accept he’s hurting anyone. He feels he’s a good father, a good family man, and that this other life is his alone. Sadly, I don’t think that’s rare’I’d had an unexpected success wi...

Donald Trump loses legal fight over using Eddy Grant song without permission

Judge rules presidential candidate is liable for damages over unauthorised use of Grant’s song Electric Avenue in animated video ridiculing Joe BidenDonald Trump has lost a legal battle with the singer Eddy Grant over using his 1983 song Electric Ave...

Tito Jackson, Jackson 5 member and brother to Michael, dies aged 70

The third of nine Jackson children and last to release a solo project, Tito was ‘an incredible man who cared about everyone’Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the pop group the Jackson 5, has died at the age of 70.Tito was the third of nin...

LSO/Pappano/Wang/Lapwood review – high on feelgood factor

Barbican, LondonSoloists Yuja Wang and Anna Lapwood brought style and spectacle to Rachmaninov and Saint-SaënsIn an Olympian feat of programming, Antonio Pappano’s first few concerts as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra feature works b...

The Island review – Matt Dillon’s moody clarinetting sums up exotic Greek idyll thriller

Dillon plays a man with more red flags than a golf course and Aida Folch does her best stay above water in Fernando Trueba’s noir-adjacent filmNeither pulpy enough for the midnight movie crowd, nor classy enough for the arthouse, this alleged thrille...

Ben Elton: Authentic Stupidity review – bewildered boomer is a cross-gen hit

Milton Keynes theatreThe indefatigable comic eschews the cliches of most middle-aged standups and skewers modern life with fairness and charmA central section of Ben Elton’s new show addresses euthanasia, with the 65-year-old strongly asserting the r...

Last Straw review – waitress holes up in diner in twisty low-budget siege horror

This debut feature from Alan Scott Neal shows plenty of promise, with its classic setup and innovative midpoint switcharoundThe first half of this 80-minute roadside diner siege horror plays out almost like a section of an anthology film, calling to...

Kanye West performs in China after rare approval by country’s censors

Flow of foreign artists to China has slowed to a trickle, but economic pressures could be forcing authorities to rethinkWhen Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, took to the stage in Haikou on Sunday, his Chinese fans could barely believe it....

‘The biggest upset in years’ – why Shōgun’s epic Emmys haul leaves me with a nagging feeling

Yes, Shōgun is majestic TV that is very clearly prestigious with a capital P. But did it really deserve to shut out so many other shows?Let’s begin with the best news of the year: the great Emmy logjam is over. The more eagle-eyed among you will have...

Shōgun makes Emmys history as Hacks, The Bear and Baby Reindeer triumph

Period epic is first non-English language series to win for best drama as breakout hit takes home four awardsShōgun has made Emmys history as the first ever non-English language series to win for best drama.The historical epic, based on the 1975 nove...