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Letters: ‘Shirley Manson is right. Misogyny isn’t one issue – it’s the root that so many grow out of’
Letters

Letters: ‘Shirley Manson is right. Misogyny isn’t one issue – it’s the root that so many grow out of’

Big Issue readers have their say on Shirley Manson’s Letter To My Younger Self

Becky Hill: ‘Grassroots music venues desperately need our help’
Everywhere At Once Festival

Becky Hill: ‘Grassroots music venues desperately need our help’

Pop sensation Becky Hill is taking part in Everywhere at Once, one of many stars working to draw attention to the need for grassroots venues

Opera singer Danielle de Niese: ‘I lost my singing voice when I was pregnant. I was in a panic’
Letter To My Younger Self

Opera singer Danielle de Niese: ‘I lost my singing voice when I was pregnant. I was in a panic’

Winning an Australian TV talent show was just the beginning of a stellar soprano career that has taken her to Glyndebourne via LA

How The Reytons are ‘levelling the playing field’ for working class kids
Interview

How The Reytons are ‘levelling the playing field’ for working class kids

Shirley Manson: ‘If we solve misogyny, we solve so many other problems in our society’
letter to my younger self

Shirley Manson: ‘If we solve misogyny, we solve so many other problems in our society’

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The Opioid crisis has been turned into an opera
Opera

The Opioid crisis has been turned into an opera

Miles Davis at 100: the restless creativity of a jazz icon
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Miles Davis at 100: the restless creativity of a jazz icon

Want to get healthy this summer? Add the arts to your core routine
Arts

Want to get healthy this summer? Add the arts to your core routine

Ignore the charts, Connect with fans, be weird on the internet: How to be a pop star in 2026
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Ignore the charts, Connect with fans, be weird on the internet: How to be a pop star in 2026

Myles Smith: ‘I don’t subscribe to traditional gender roles. My mum was the breadwinner growing up’
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Myles Smith: ‘I don’t subscribe to traditional gender roles. My mum was the breadwinner growing up’

What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: ‘It’s important to give hope’
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What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: ‘It’s important to give hope’

‘Anything that helps to promote the very existence of these grassroots music venues is welcome’
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‘Anything that helps to promote the very existence of these grassroots music venues is welcome’

Inside the Big Issue: Nice to meet Myles Smith
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Nice to meet Myles Smith

Super Furry Animals: ‘We could sign on and get income support so we could eat. It’s harder now’
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Super Furry Animals: ‘We could sign on and get income support so we could eat. It’s harder now’

Rita Wilson: ‘I’m proud I started songwriting in my 50s. There is no clock on creativity’
Letter To My Younger Self

Rita Wilson: ‘I’m proud I started songwriting in my 50s. There is no clock on creativity’

Bluey composer Joff Bush: ‘We want to help tell the story as much as possible with the music’
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Bluey composer Joff Bush: ‘We want to help tell the story as much as possible with the music’

What is the big deal with math rock stars Angine de Poitrine? We try to find out
Music

What is the big deal with math rock stars Angine de Poitrine? We try to find out

Can the notorious Michael Jackson film continue the Hollywood biopic boom?
Film

Can the notorious Michael Jackson film continue the Hollywood biopic boom?

Ziggy Marley: ‘I should have said something to my dad. But I was too young’
Letter To My Younger Self

Ziggy Marley: ‘I should have said something to my dad. But I was too young’

Life lessons with Yungblud: ‘Social media is gonna fry your head. Have dinner with your mum instead’
Interview

Life lessons with Yungblud: ‘Social media is gonna fry your head. Have dinner with your mum instead’

Yungblud’s Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again
Denmark Street

Yungblud’s Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again

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Yungblud on losing Ozzy Osbourne: ‘He was like Batman to me’
Yungblud

Yungblud on losing Ozzy Osbourne: ‘He was like Batman to me’

Rick Astley is glad he never gave up: ‘Doing new music again, I’ve gone back into my childhood’
Letter To My Younger Self

Rick Astley is glad he never gave up: ‘Doing new music again, I’ve gone back into my childhood’

Ballet and opera are still thriving, but Timothée Chalamet wasn’t entirely wrong
Arts

Ballet and opera are still thriving, but Timothée Chalamet wasn’t entirely wrong

The UK’s first electronic music library is on a mission to make the synthesiser accessible to all 
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The UK’s first electronic music library is on a mission to make the synthesiser accessible to all