1 hour ago Radiohead live in London: a generous and visceral hit parade (of sorts)

Radiohead live in London: a generous and visceral hit parade (of sorts)  NME

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2 h. ago Radiohead’s music about alienation makes feeling alienated feel less alienating

Standing in the crowd at the sold-out reunion tour, long-time Radiohead fan Lucy Jones is reminded once again of what it is that makes this band so special

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3 h. ago Radiohead live in London: returning heroes shut up and play the hits

Radiohead live in London: returning heroes shut up and play the hits  Rolling Stone UK

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4 h. ago Radiohead Live In London Review: Still unique, still great, still morphing

Radiohead Live In London Review: Still unique, still great, still morphing  Mojo Magazine

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9 d. ago AC/DC review – a thrilling show stuffed with classics and your eardrums will never be the same

Melbourne Cricket Ground, then touring AustraliaIn the band’s ‘ancestral homeland’, Accadacca’s first Australian concert in a decade shows Angus Young is still a frenzied force to be reckoned withOn Wednesday afternoon, 374 bagpipers gathered in Melbourne’s Federation Square to play AC/DC’s It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock’n’Roll), setting a new world record just up the road from where Bon Scott and the band famously played the song on the back of a flatbed truck riding up Swanston Street 50 years before.It’s the one hit AC/DC no longer plays live, retired out of respect to Scott after his death in 1980. But you barely notice it is missing when their live shows are this stuffed with classics: an audible thrill ripples through the 80,000 punters in Melbourne Cricket Ground when AC/DC opens with If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It) then tears straight into Back in Black. Who else could play such a huge hit so early in a show? But Accadacca can, in what is essentially a great...

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1 week ago The Fifth Step: Writer David Ireland reveals inspiration behind hit play starring Slow Horses star Jack Lowden

The Fifth Step will be released in cinemas from November 27

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2 w. ago A cheeky reference to Goldenballs? Sir David Beckham is knighted as a classical string quartet bizarrely play KPop Demon Hunters hit Golden

The former Manchester United and England footballer was made a knight of the British empire for services to sport and charity by King Charles during Tuesday's investiture.

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2 w. ago World Series Game 7: Los Angeles Dodgers v Toronto Blue Jays – live

Blue Jays host Dodgers in winner-take-all Game 7Reach out to Beau on Bluesky or via emailDodgers 0-0 Blue Jays, end of first inningA bit of confusion here. Ohtani takes the mound a bit late and has yet to throw a warm-up pitch at the time the Blue Jays are ready to bat. The home-play umpire is giving him a little extra time.George Springer takes three straight balls from Ohtani before taking a strike. The Toronto DH, back from an oblique injury, then rips a line drive to left field for a leadoff single. The crowd explodes.Nathan Lukes goes down 1-2 in the count and fights off a few more pitches before striking out swinging on a splitter.Vladimir Guerrero Jr works the count to 3-2, then takes a 100mph fastball right down the middle for a called strikeout ... before catcher Will Smith fires down to second to catch Springer stealing. The strikeout double play abruptly ends the inning. Both teams get leadoff hits in the first inning but neither can take advantage.Ohtani takes two balls,...

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3 w. ago Donegal to Dakar: the Irish play about British rule hitting home in post

An African staging of Brian Friel’s Translations resonates deeply as the country distances itself from FranceOn a humid evening in Dakar, an Irish jig echoes through the country’s air-conditioned national theatre. The breathy, woody sound of the west African Fula flute brings a different cadence to the traditional tune. Actors dance across the stage, their peasant costumes stitched from African fabrics.The dialogue is in French, the playwright is Irish and the players are Senegalese. Set in 1833, Brian Friel’s Translations – one of Ireland’s most celebrated modern plays – follows British soldiers sent to rural Donegal to translate Gaelic placenames into English. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution

The experimental annex of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its homeSomething is rotten in Swedish theatre. In front of Elverket – a former power station that for much of the last 30 years has been at the centre of Stockholm’s experimental dramatic output – posters proclaim that theatre is dead. Inside the former turbine hall, either side of a red chandelier-lit platform surrounded by contorted bodies, Hamlet and Ophelia, brilliantly played by Gustav Lindh and Gizem Erdogan, are furiously channelling the rage of a generation, loudly hitting the walls with bars. In the play’s final seconds, gravediggers give way to builders dressed in high-vis come in to cover the stage in tarpaulin and start work.This adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, not so cryptically subtitled The Death of Theatre, is the venue’s last ever theatre production before it is shut down. Dramaten, the roy...

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