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Rising star Gordi: ‘Love can be a complicated thing. Especially for a queer person’
Music

Rising star Gordi: ‘Love can be a complicated thing. Especially for a queer person’

For Australian indie-pop artist Gordi, falling in love inspired a period of learning… and their new album

Oasis might’ve reformed for the money – but who can blame them?
Oasis

Oasis might’ve reformed for the money – but who can blame them?

With a broken industry dependent on ticket sales and merch, why pick on Oasis for making hay while the sun shines?

Monster of Jazz Festival founder Wojtek Mazolewski: ‘Jazz is freedom. That’s how I see and feel it’
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Monster of Jazz Festival founder Wojtek Mazolewski: ‘Jazz is freedom. That’s how I see and feel it’

A new Polish jazz festival will be a bold celebration of freedom and artistry. Not long ago, it would have been illegal

I bought Brixton Academy for £1
Live music

I bought Brixton Academy for £1

The prison piano project striking a chord: ‘Music expresses how much we all have in common’
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The prison piano project striking a chord: ‘Music expresses how much we all have in common’

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How the late, great Ozzy Osbourne supported Big Issue with blockbuster farewell gig
Ozzy Osbourne

How the late, great Ozzy Osbourne supported Big Issue with blockbuster farewell gig

This new opera influenced by homeless children shines light on UK’s housing crisis
Opera

This new opera influenced by homeless children shines light on UK’s housing crisis

Notes on Stereophonics, nostalgia and why you can’t keep a good banger down
Music

Notes on Stereophonics, nostalgia and why you can’t keep a good banger down

Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II is 83 songs long – and proves sometimes less is more
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Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II is 83 songs long – and proves sometimes less is more

Before Oasis, Radio 1 were as likely to play a guitar band as they were a badger being strangled
Oasis

Before Oasis, Radio 1 were as likely to play a guitar band as they were a badger being strangled

Cigarettes, alcohol and sunsheeeeeine: How the UK has changed since Oasis first hit the big time
Oasis

Cigarettes, alcohol and sunsheeeeeine: How the UK has changed since Oasis first hit the big time

The history of Oasis, through five iconic Big Issue interviews: ‘Liam’s an idiot… But he’s my idiot’
Oasis

The history of Oasis, through five iconic Big Issue interviews: ‘Liam’s an idiot… But he’s my idiot’

‘Oasis was like being on Concorde for six years’
Oasis

‘Oasis was like being on Concorde for six years’

James Arthur: ‘It’s too scary to even think about where I’d be if I didn’t do music’
Onside Takeover

James Arthur: ‘It’s too scary to even think about where I’d be if I didn’t do music’

James Arthur gets candid about mental health with young superfan: ‘I struggled with fame’
Onside Takeover

James Arthur gets candid about mental health with young superfan: ‘I struggled with fame’

Ben and Imo: Restoring the legacy of Imogen Holst
Classical music

Ben and Imo: Restoring the legacy of Imogen Holst

From Pavements to Searching for Sugar Man: The most enchanting music docs to watch right now
Music

From Pavements to Searching for Sugar Man: The most enchanting music docs to watch right now

From the utterly profane to the thoroughly sacred: How football chants became the folk music of today
Football

From the utterly profane to the thoroughly sacred: How football chants became the folk music of today

‘There’s no magic bullet’: The battle to keep Cardiff’s vital music scene from dying out
Grassroots music venues

‘There’s no magic bullet’: The battle to keep Cardiff’s vital music scene from dying out

Beyoncé’s stunning Cowboy Carter tour reclaims country and proves history can’t be erased
Music

Beyoncé’s stunning Cowboy Carter tour reclaims country and proves history can’t be erased

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker: ‘We only have a finite amount of time to do the things we do’
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Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker: ‘We only have a finite amount of time to do the things we do’

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Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason: ‘Britishness should be something that we all have a part in’
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Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason: ‘Britishness should be something that we all have a part in’

Kim Wilde: ‘There’s no avoiding getting your heart broken’
Letter To My Younger Self

Kim Wilde: ‘There’s no avoiding getting your heart broken’

End of the Road founder on the secret to a good festival and the act you can’t afford to miss in 2025
Music festivals

End of the Road founder on the secret to a good festival and the act you can’t afford to miss in 2025

The music that kept London going through the blackouts and bombings of the Second World War
Music

The music that kept London going through the blackouts and bombings of the Second World War