Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

How Migration Made Britain’s Music in Soho

By any measure, David Bowie was a superstar. He first rose to fame in the nineteen-seventies, a process galvanized by his creation and assumption of the rocker-from-Mars persona Ziggy Stardust.

Ewan MacColl’s songs were not so much a backdrop to our lives growing up but were instead part of the air that we breathed. Later in my life, it would have been hard to find a pub singsong in Ireland ...

How Fiona Adams captured a different Britain on a London bomb site

The roots of Kraftwerk go back to the late 60s when Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider met as students in Dusseldorf, first forming an experimental rock band, Organisation, who issued one album...

Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money

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From Yiddisher Jazz to British Pop: How Jewish London changed the sound of Britain

SYNOPSIS: “I was just minding my own business when this guy jumped me and the next thing I know I’ve got a rage-on for the old red stuff. Aye, I’d be...

From Yiddisher Jazz to British Pop: How Jewish London changed the sound of Britain

There was a raw honesty and melancholy in both the lyrics and the voice that made 'Kite' utterly unique.

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This is a total joy of a book. Although it’s not all joy. There’s grief, heartbreak, self-doubt, tears and Thatcherism. But at its heart is a powerful expression of the meaning and joy that music brin...

3 Savile Row and the art of learning by doing

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With their sublime confection of heartbreak and dancefloor power, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have never sounded like anyone else. Thirty years since Walking Wounded, here’s the duo’s very best

There’s little loyalty owed to a PM who shows so little interest in MPs — which is why a planned exit now looks likely

Record Store Day is the one day of the year when over 260 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture. Special vinyl releases are made exclusively for th...

How Soho shaped the group’s understanding of power - and how to use it