Green Man review – Wolf Alice, Shame and secret sets keep the Welsh festival’s flame burning

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…

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Yeon Sang-ho: South Korea’s zombie king tells us the secret to K-horror’s success

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…

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Sandi Toksvig: "You can feel in the Irish writers, that their work could only have sprung from Ireland"

"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…

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Jon Ronson: "Dennis Nilsen, the serial killer, turned my book into Braille"

"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…

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Boomtown proves that ambition, escapism and conscience can share the same dancefloor

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…

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Slayyyter live review – raucous show announces a new princess of sleaze-pop

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$…

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Bret Michaels axes all planned tour dates to recover from surgery

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…

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Live Report: Smukfest 2026

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…

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Frankie Thompson: Horrible Things review – a show to make you shudder with laughter

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…

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Black Mirror season 8 gets major production update ahead of Charlie Brooker hit's return

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…

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