Category : Focus

by Admin - 2 months ago

Jamiroquai bassist Derrick McIntyre dies in car crash

Tributes paid to 66-year-old musician after Hertfordshire police confirmed he died in collision last weekThe bassist Derrick McIntyre, who was part of the band Jamiroquai and lent his strings to songs by Emeli Sandé, Will Young and Beverly Knight, ha...

by Admin - 2 months ago

On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights

The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriterDave Eggers was born in Boston in 1970, raised in Illinois and now lives in San Francisco with his wife, the novelist Vendela Vid...

by Admin - 2 months ago

Sharon Osbourne: ‘I’ve always been magnet for drama’

The TV personality, 71, on getting into shape, worrying too much and moving back to the UK with OzzyI’m someone who’s always said what’s on her mind – then it’s gone. But other people won’t let it go. They don’t like confrontation and they don’t like...

by Admin - 2 months ago

One to watch: Rachael Lavelle

The Dubliner, who still works part-time as a funeral singer, has a fine line in slow-burning songs of urban isolationRachael Lavelle’s debut album, Big Dreams, arrived last November. With dusky vocals gliding over undulating electronics and doleful,...

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National Gallery should scrap 1900 cut-off date, says art expert

Julian Spalding says work by artists such as David Hockney could hang alongside old masters in bicentenary yearThe former director of three of Britain’s most important museums has called for the National Gallery to lift its longstanding cut-off date...