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Charred peat and grassland smoulder on the hillsides, the remnants of one of the 20 wildfires that blazed through south and west Wales the previous week. The dangerously dry conditions pose a problem for the festival…
And yet in Yeon Sang-ho’s breakout live-action debut Train To Busan , about a young workaholic father (played by Gong Yoo) protecting his young daughter (Kim Su-an) from a national outbreak on a packed train, tears…
"What is it about the Irish?" asks Sandi Toksvig, sounding slightly exasperated. She’s being nice, though: the broadcaster and author is wondering aloud how this tiny island has produced so many world-class writers – and…
"Dennis Nilsen, the serial killer, turned my book into Braille," says Jon Ronson. It’s exactly the kind of alarming and surreal revelation we expect from the writer and broadcaster, whose Radio 4 show Things Fell Apart…
With backgrounds in free party movements, underground scenes, and a general love for world-building, the pair recognised a glaring issue with mainstream festival spaces before Boomtown’s inception; there were few…
Back then, she was still largely the domain of Twitter gays: a subcultural figure to those who assessed music in terms of "flops" and "bops". Then, midway through 2025, she released the electro-trashy Beat Up Chanel$…
Back in June, the singer played three live dates in the US, where he claimed to be in “intense” pain due to a kidney stone. After the final of the three dates, held in Washington, he was quickly rushed to hospital and…
Under the cover of darkness, a mirrored mannequin elegantly glides through the air to a skulking, moody beat deep in Skanderborg’s protected beech forest, Dyrehave. Inside the mirrored skinsuit, the aerialist morphs and…
Thompson, whose brand of clowning-meets-performance art more or less guarantees something interesting will happen on stage, parades these Things as lip-synced audio and audience-terrorising stunts, all marshalled by our…
The streamer confirmed the news to Variety , revealing that shooting began over the summer, although no launch date has been set. It marks a swift turnaround for a series that once endured a four-year hiatus between…