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‘Against the odds’: How the Lubber Fiend made Newcastle’s music scene exciting again
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‘Against the odds’: How the Lubber Fiend made Newcastle’s music scene exciting again

Composer Cassie Kinoshi: ‘Understanding one’s own mental health is of utmost importance to me’
Music

Composer Cassie Kinoshi: ‘Understanding one’s own mental health is of utmost importance to me’

‘This is not the end’: Experimental arts venue Iklectik fights to survive after shock eviction
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‘This is not the end’: Experimental arts venue Iklectik fights to survive after shock eviction

Here’s one they played earlier: Pre-recorded orchestras spell trouble for live performance
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Here’s one they played earlier: Pre-recorded orchestras spell trouble for live performance

This grassroots venue brings ‘astonishing’ music and mental wellbeing to rural Wales
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This grassroots venue brings ‘astonishing’ music and mental wellbeing to rural Wales

Paloma Faith: ‘How many left-wing people like me get to be a national treasure? None’
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Paloma Faith: ‘How many left-wing people like me get to be a national treasure? None’

Photographer Dennis Morris on capturing legend Bob Marley – and how the reggae icon changed his life
Photography

Photographer Dennis Morris on capturing legend Bob Marley – and how the reggae icon changed his life

Grassroots venue Off the Cuff is home to UK’s biggest youth open mic – and it needs your help
Venue Watch

Grassroots venue Off the Cuff is home to UK’s biggest youth open mic – and it needs your help

Big Issue’s Venue Watch helps save Woking’s only grassroots music venue: ‘It’s a big win’
Venue Watch

Big Issue’s Venue Watch helps save Woking’s only grassroots music venue: ‘It’s a big win’

English Teacher on the power of diversity and how grassroots venues keep music from becoming boring
Music

English Teacher on the power of diversity and how grassroots venues keep music from becoming boring

Independent Venue Week 2024: Without grassroots music venues, there’d be no Madonna
Venue Watch

Independent Venue Week 2024: Without grassroots music venues, there’d be no Madonna

How British composer Karl Jenkins brought the world together
Music

How British composer Karl Jenkins brought the world together

‘No mean feat’: How Leeds grassroots venue The Wardrobe defied the odds to celebrate 25 years
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‘No mean feat’: How Leeds grassroots venue The Wardrobe defied the odds to celebrate 25 years

At least two grassroots music venues closing each week
Venue Watch

At least two grassroots music venues closing each week

This is everything to look out for in the world of jazz in 2024
Music

This is everything to look out for in the world of jazz in 2024

LeAnn Rimes on powerful women, making mistakes and giving voice to her late gay uncle
Letter To My Younger Self

LeAnn Rimes on powerful women, making mistakes and giving voice to her late gay uncle

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Save Luna: London venue fights to survive in face of crippling costs and founder’s tragic passing
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Save Luna: London venue fights to survive in face of crippling costs and founder’s tragic passing

Reading Robert Smith’s diary made me fall in love with The Cure
Simon Price

Reading Robert Smith’s diary made me fall in love with The Cure

Morton Feldman at the Tate Modern – an elegy for pioneering artist Philip Guston
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Morton Feldman at the Tate Modern – an elegy for pioneering artist Philip Guston

The Coral co-founder Bill Ryder-Jones on beauty, sorrow and psychedelic new album Iechyd Da
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The Coral co-founder Bill Ryder-Jones on beauty, sorrow and psychedelic new album Iechyd Da