7 h. ago They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to surviveFor years, Field Music playfully toyed with the idea of forming a hybrid cover band called AC/BGs, featuring one set of AC/DC songs done in a Saturday Night Fever-style and one set of rock-heavy Bee Gees numbers. “These things are a joke until they stop being a joke,” says David Brewis, one half of the Sunderland art-pop band.Another idea made it beyond a tour bus gag to become their new side hustle: a Doors tribute band called the Fire Doors. When the band announced it on Facebook last month, they received critical questions asking: why? The band’s response was a piercingly honest multi-page statement. Brewis wrote of Field Music’s sincere love of the band, the high levels of skill required to do such a job proficiently – and how doing one tribute gig a month could help their “dire finances”, having accepted that after nine albums, they h...

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33 h. ago London could host first international NFL Super Bowl as British ambassador makes bold pitch

London could host first international NFL Super Bowl as British ambassador makes bold pitch  The Times of India

Politics

4 d. ago Nearly half of voters fear the Government will not be able to 'smash the gangs' after migrant count hits 50,000

While the poll applies to British governments in general, it indicates a lack of faith in Sir Keir Starmer's 'smash the gangs' policy to control the boats.

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5 d. ago Scrooge to be portrayed as a 'British Indian who hates refugees' in new version of A Christmas Carol

The musical, which is directed by Gurinder Chadha and based on the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, will feature a 'British-Indian' man named Sood as the lead character.

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9 d. ago ‘This is big blissful entertainment’: global film critics on the one movie that defines their country

What single film best represents a nation? Here, 12 writers choose the one work they believe most captures their home’s culture and cinema – from a bold cricket musical to a nine-hour documentary, gritty crime dramas to frothy tales of revengeIt is often said that there are two religions in India: cinema and cricket. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India blends the two with such panache that, upon its release, movie theatres became stadiums, with audiences cheering and dancing in their seats when the underdogs (a ragtag team of Indian villagers) defeat their masters (a far superior British team led by a tyrannical racist captain who wants to inflict a ruinous land tax on them). Continue reading...

Culture

2 w. ago Voices: My friend Lord Desai: A rare figure who was respected across political, cultural and academic divides

Lord Desai’s parliamentary aide, friend and mentee Sahil Hansrani pays his respects to a man who made his home in British politics and academia and became the first Labour peer of Indian origin

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last month British Air India crash survivor haunted by nightmares where 'everyone dies'

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was the only person to walk away alive after the Boeing 787 slammed into a residential building

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last month 'Miracle' British sole survivor of Air India crash is haunted by nightmares of the tragedy which killed 242 others and keeps 'seeing everyone die' in his dreams, family says

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the British sole survivor of the horrific Air India crash, is haunted by nightmares where he sees 'everyone die', his family have said.

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