Category: 5. Entertainment

You couldn’t make it up, Jessie J says. There she was preparing for her first album release in eight years, ecstatically in love with her newish partner, and finally the mother of a toddler having struggled to conceive for a decade, on top of…

Aisling Rogerson is comfortable in silence. When I ask her about the last weeks of her late husband Manchán Magan’s life, there are long pauses during which she gathers the right words to describe the experience. Tears slide down her cheeks….

Streets named after Andrew, formerly known as Prince but now plain Mountbatten-Windsor, can be found from Broadstairs to Belfast to Birmingham. Roads, avenues, terraces, lanes, crescents, closes, drives and ways are all afflicted – to the…

When Warren Ellis was making the album Ghosteen with his friend and collaborator Nick Cave, he sensed a “presence” in the studio, lighting their way.

“I don’t know what it was, but every day was a revelation. Every day was a surprise….

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? No? Just Katy Perry then. Seven months since her sense-defying jaunt into space, life on planet Earth hasn’t let up for the embattled hitmaker. She’s back…

Even as he says “hello”, you wonder if you are really about to talk to Jafar Panahi. For 15 years, an interview with the great Iranian director has been impossible. Since 2010, Panahi has been kept from journalists by the Islamic republic, a…

How does any pianist distinguish themself on an instrument as prolifically performed and recorded as the piano? The habit of working through the core repertoire in order, ticking off sonatas and concertos as if on a grand checklist, suggests the…