Mount Kimbie are forging a new musical identity
Kai Campos and Dom Maker are used to taking their time. As the band Mount Kimbie, the pair have spent the past 14 years crafting three...
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- Aug 23, 2022
The highlife sound forged by civil war and the dancefloor
In 1957, at only 10-years-old, Waziri Oshomah was sneaking out of his home in the southern Nigerian region of Etsako to watch club bands...
- Aug 18, 2022
‘I had a very welcome lie-in on Friday’: the joys and challenges of switching to a four-day week
In June, the UK embarked on the biggest trial of a four-day work week in the world. More than 3,300 employees at 70 companies agreed to...
- Jul 22, 2022
‘Our love triangle was outrageous!’ Neighbours legends remember the good, the bad and the very silly
On 18 March 1985, Australian viewers were introduced to a suburban cul-de-sac. Over the course of an unremarkable pilot, a noisy stag do...
- May 16, 2022
The celebrated assassin: the play about Gandhi’s killer, still dividing India
‘Sometimes the truth is messy and illogical,” says Anupama Chandrasekhar. “But theatre can display the truth in ways journalism or other...
- Apr 15, 2022
Hounslow's Finest: Bend It Like Beckham At 20
There was something unique about growing up in Hounslow in the late ‘90s. A stone’s throw from Heathrow Airport, this largely working...
- Mar 8, 2022
‘I went from basic to flamboyant overnight!’ The people who transformed their style
Our style evolves as we move through life; trends come and go. When we get older, the phrase “age-appropriate” is suddenly everywhere....
- Feb 7, 2022
Moses Boyd and Binker Golding share a hidden language
Back in March 2021, saxophonist Binker Golding was in the Bath countryside making an impromptu, nighttime bonfire. The fuel for the fire...
- Feb 3, 2022
‘My life completely turned around’: is manifesting the key to happiness – or wishful thinking?
In the first months of the UK’s spring 2020 lockdown, Jennifer Doyle, a teacher and single mother, was at a low point. “I was in a bit of...
- Jan 18, 2022
My streaming gem: why you should watch I Called Him Morgan
A minute into Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ 1959 standard Moanin’, its bluesy piano refrain is blown open by the piercing burst of...
- Jan 4, 2022
‘I saw a big set of white teeth coming towards me’: the people who survived wild animal attacks
Although, mercifully, still rare, there are signs that wild animal attacks on humans are increasing. Research from the scientific journal...
- Jan 3, 2022
The person who got me through 2021: Dr Karl Kennedy in Neighbours was strangely reassuring
For the past 20 years there have been a handful of constants in my life: my family, my best friend and Neighbours. Not neighbours like...
- Dec 28, 2021
Escape your comfort zone: I am terrified of driving – but behind the wheel I find new confidence
It has been 10 years since I last stalled a car. I was 18 and drifting across several lanes of an A-road roundabout while my driving test...
- Dec 21, 2021
The 10 best global albums of 2021
10. Sarah Haras - Mirage Bahraini experimental producer Sarah Haras meanders between ambience and aggression on Mirage, warping the...
- Dec 13, 2021
‘Even the reindeer were unhappy’: life inside Britain’s worst winter wonderlands
Polystyrene snow, MDF grottos, stomach-churning rides and Santas with scratchy fake beards: as Christmas nears, ’tis the season for...
- Jul 14, 2021
‘An American riddle’: the black music trailblazer who died a white man
There are, according to the academic Emmett Price, “six degrees of Harry Pace”. He is referring to the man born in 1884 who founded...
- Mar 24, 2021
We stan together: the wonderful world of Instagram TV fan pages
A cursory scroll through the Explore page on Instagram can feel like a visual assault: sponsored content, taunting influencer pictures...
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