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Royal Albert Hall, LondonA quirky and informative script lifted the bonnet on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in the first half, and, in the second, the Aurora Orchestra – performing from memory – delivered a high-energy Rite that saw the music pulse acr...
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(EMI) The dance duo’s 10th album – on which they, not the guest vocalists, are the stars – has moments to match their best workThe Chemical Brothers pick up where 2019’s No Geography left off, with a nonsense-free reaffirmation of the dance duo’s gre...
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Venice film festival: Disaster appears imminent as Seydoux and an impressive George MacKay meet across three different eras in what is maybe Bertrand Bonello’s best movie yetBertrand Bonello’s new film is a vast unsettling dream of the future and the...
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Organisers hope event will help community come to terms with summer of controversy over presence of barge for asylum seekersDorset’s Isle of Portland found itself the centre of attention for a controversial reason after the docking of the Bibby Stock...
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The singer-songwriter on writing his first musical, being inspired by fatherhood, and revisiting his work in two Proms in a single nightRufus Wainwright will perform at the Proms next week, a double concert of music from his breakthrough albums Want...
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In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for grantedDouglas Adams created the most famous ebook reader – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – almost 30 years before the fir...
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The much-missed singer-songwriter left behind an unfinished fifth record. His brother Matt and sister-in-law Melissa reveal how they pieced together its songs to complete the albumThe last time Mark Linkous visited his brother Matt and sister-in-law...
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(Native Rebel)The Sons of Kemet frontman joins forces with associates including Alan Hawkins and Daisy George in an expansive collaboration that’s more than the sum of its partsNative Rebel is the label run by Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet, The Co...
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Tens of thousands of ‘burners’ urged to conserve food and water as rain and flash floods sweep NevadaTens of thousands of “burners” at the Burning Man festival have been told to stay in the camps, conserve food and water and are being blocked from le...
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Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski are brilliantly believable in Ira Sachs’s exploration of a gay marriage that’s challenged when one partner has a passionate affair with a young womanIn writer-director Ira Sachs’s 2014 charmer Love Is Strange, John Lith...
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The ex-PM casts herself as nobly championing victims of the powerful, but fails to properly confront her culpability in the shameful Windrush scandalIt is four years and counting since Theresa May made her teary exit from No 10. That is sufficient ti...
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After seven years of ‘mad triage’ on possibly the best drama series ever, its creator is up for a lot of noodling, and football, and maybe a return to his first love – the sitcomIn the brief respite since the fourth and final season of Succession rea...
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The 230-page unpublished memoir will reflect the horrors suffered by ordinary Japanese citizens in a feature-length dramaA major feature film on Hiroshima is going into production, inspired in part by an unpublished memoir of a Japanese man who witne...
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Koen Wessing, a young Dutch photographer, flew to Santiago 50 years ago and showed the world what General Pinochet’s rule would mean for the countryWhen news broke of the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s elected government in Chile, 50 years ago this...
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Yes, this hit Japanese reality show features undercover contestants trying to deceive the others. But it’s surprisingly gentle, kind and, at points, gloriously tranquil to watchIn Japan, the reality series Who Is the Wolf? has run for 13 seasons and...