Arts & Entertainment
Music interview: Human League
IF a cold gives Susan Sulley’s broad Sheffield accent a croak today, there’s a familiar bounce in her conversation as we discuss the Human League, her band of the past 32 years.
Starlight Express, The Alhambra, Bradford
IT’S the eve of her birthday and Arlene Phillips has just returned from Azerbaijan where she’s preparing to stage Engelbert Humperdinck’s appearance on this weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest.
Album reviews: Beach House, Clara Ponty and Engelbert Humperdinck
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Music and Gigs
Music interview: The Wailers
HE was the greatest star that Jamaican music ever produced, a figurehead for reggae who has sold millions more albums and grown ever more famous since his death from cancer at the age of just 36 years old.
Music interview: Lee Ranaldo
FOR the past 30 years Lee Ranaldo has been the guitarist and sometime singer in Sonic Youth, the godfathers of American noise rock.
Album reviews: The Cribs, North Atlantic Oscillation and I Like Trains
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Music interview: The Cribs
ON the eve of a European tour, Ross Jarman, drummer with The Cribs, is packing his suitcase.
Gig review: That was Live At Leeds 2012
We launched a three-pronged attack on this year’s Live At Leeds to bring you a flavour of the annual all-day, multi-venue live music event
Theatre Reviews
Theatre review: The Real Thing, West Yorkshire Playhouse
THIS is a frightfully, frightfully clever play, but it is equally irksome and now seems preposterously old-fashioned.
Theatre review: The Full Monty, Yeadon Town Hall
WHEN Brassneck Theatre say the Full Monty, they mean THE Fully Monty!
Theatre review: The Full Monty, Yeadon Town Hall
When Brassneck Theatre say the Full Monty, they mean THE Fully Monty!
Jerusalem Tango, The Carriageworks, Leeds
Given that Pat Rowe is a Jewish writer who spent several years living in Israel, you might expect her play – which explores the politics surrounding the 1946 British occupation of Palestine – to deliver a black-and-white view of events.
Theatre review: Carousel, Leeds Grand Theatre
Director Jo Davies does a consummate job in taming the mammoth epic that is this legend of Broadway and the West End.
- Politics: Mark Hookham's Westminster blog - 5.33pm
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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