4 d. ago Josh Barrie On the Sauce at Chiave: A negroni here is the key to happiness

Ordering an omelette is an efficient way to evaluate a French bistro. An Italian trattoria might be keenly assessed with risotto. Much the same, any credible bar would do well to master the Hemingway, which is made exceptionally well at One Club Row in Shoreditch but isn’t on the menu at Chiave. The two venues are close to one another — one an Italian bar, the other described as “New York-style” by people who have never been to New York.

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8 d. ago Raye, Tyla, FKA twigs and more reviewed at All Points East 2025: hit and miss

Distinctly lacking in Doechii, it was a patchy and fragmented day of pop that didn't always gel

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1 week ago Barry Can’t Swim at All Points East review: Wholesomeness and dance music joy in spades

The Scottish producer showed exactly why he’s such a firm favourite

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1 week ago Barry Can’t Swim brings crowd to its feet on second weekend of All Points East

The festival in Tower Hamlets drew a crowd of about 40,000 people.

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1 week ago Barry Can't Swim at All Points East: Full line up and event info

All Points East continues this weekend, with Barry Can’t Swim headlining on Friday

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2 w. ago House Party review – home truths about gentrification in east London

House Party review – home truths about gentrification in east London  The Guardian

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2 w. ago House Party review – home truths about gentrification in east London | Edinburgh festival 2025

House Party review – home truths about gentrification in east London | Edinburgh festival 2025  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Chase & Status at All Points East review: Three headliners for the price of one

Chase & Status set the crowd on fire in Victoria Park last night, but their performance was easily matched by the second and third on the billing

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2 w. ago Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Hisaishi review – frothing strings and quacking brass as Studio Ghibli’s composer debuts

Royal Albert Hall, LondonSwitching between podium and piano, Joe Hisaishi’s suite from The Boy and the Heron sparked joy, but Reich’s demanding Desert Music was vibrant and hypnoticOne of the pleasures of the BBC Proms is that they bring some of classical music’s biggest names from around the world to the Royal Albert Hall. But celebrity is always relative – and, for better or worse, most Proms artists don’t also headline stadium gigs.But Japanese composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi does and, at 74, is a Proms debut artist like no other. He came on stage to waves of screaming and phones brandished to capture the moment. Never heard of him? You’re probably not part of the vast fanbase of the “cultural phenomenon” Studio Ghibli. Hisaishi is the John Williams of anime, responsible for the music in global hits from My Neighbour Totoro to The Boy and the Heron. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Explosive and experimental, Eddie Palmieri was a revolutionary figure in postwar American music

The Puerto Rican New Yorker pianist, who has died aged 88, radiated pure joy as he played – never resting on his laurels as he went from jazz to salsa to house and beyond• Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies aged 88Some 20 years ago I watched as Eddie Palmieri approached his piano, noting how his features radiated a mix of joy and excitement. As soon as he began to play I grasped why. To say the great Puerto Rican New Yorker was a thrilling performer is an understatement: seated at the piano he threw himself into playing explosive Latin jazz, his rhythmic attack reminding me how his first job as a professional musician was playing timbales in his uncle’s band aged 13. This sense of joy, the excitement he found in making music, the chances he took, helped shape Eddie Palmieri’s long, brilliant career.To my mind, Palmieri was one of the truly revolutionary figures of postwar American music, up there with Muddy and Miles and Aretha and Dolly: a musici...

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3 w. ago Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood review – a caustic satire on war reporting in the Middle East

A journalist pursues headline-making scoops whatever the cost to those in the conflict zone in this astute and darkly humorous debut novel by a former foreign correspondent‘Middle East on Fire: Israel positions tanks on Gaza border.” Journalist Phoebe Greenwood’s debut novel follows Sara Byrne, a freelance journalist in Gaza in 2012, who is reporting for a “pretty rightwing” British newspaper. Staying at the Beach Hotel, which is occupied exclusively by “middle-aged foreign correspondents”, she jostles with other reporters for stories while maintaining less-than-cordial relations with her fixer, Nasser. It could almost be a comedy of manners, with sketches of staff members and scenes from the hotel lobby. But it isn’t because, as the hotel owner puts it, “Gaza is a prison in non-stop war”.Vulture is a caustic study of what it means to report from a conflict, and particularly relevant to the current moment. It’s a knowing portrait by Greenwood, who was a freelance reporter in Je...

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