Pop and rock
Gallagher brothers perform together for first time in 16 years in London working men’s club
April 26, 2025Liam and Noel Gallagher have performed together for the first time in 16 years in a working men’s club in north London, according to reports. The brothers were pictured arriving at the Mildmay club in Newington Green, north London, on Thursday where they are believed to have filmed a promotional video for this summer’s sold-out […]
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Stedman Pearson obituary
March 16, 2025Stedman Pearson, who has died aged 60 while undergoing dialysis treatment for diabetes, was the eldest of the five siblings who made up the British pop group Five Star. Frequently compared to the Jackson 5, both for their all-family lineup and the fact that they were managed by a controlling and overbearing father, Five Star […]
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Letters: Cleo Sylvestre obituary
October 10, 2024A very accomplished and knowledgable blues singer, Cleo Sylvestre was also a customer of Dobell’s Jazz Record Shop in Charing Cross Road, central London. In 1964 Doug Dobell arranged a coach trip from London to a blues concert in Manchester. Once it was over we all went backstage and Cleo was serenaded by John Lee […]
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Cleo Sylvestre obituary
September 22, 2024Cleo Sylvestre, who has died aged 79, was a trailblazing British black actor and one of the first performers of colour on television soaps – Coronation Street in 1966, then Crossroads for two years – and the first black woman to play a leading role at the National Theatre, in Peter Nichols’ acerbic The National […]
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Oasis add three more UK dates to reunion tour
August 29, 2024Oasis have released three more dates in Manchester, London and Edinburgh for their reunion tour next year. Noel Gallagher posted on X that “due to unprecedented demand” shows had been added in Heaton Park, Manchester, on 16 July, Wembley in London on 30 July and Murrayfield, Edinburgh, on 12 August. Tickets for the tour will […]
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This Proms season ticks all the boxes and promises special things | Andrew Clements
April 25, 2024David Pickard’s nine years in charge of the BBC Proms, one of the most enviable jobs classical music has to offer, have certainly not always gone as smoothly as he might have hoped. If the consequences of Brexit and the difficulties it has created for musicians wanting to perform and tour in Britain were not […]
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Guitar maker Gibson opens store off London’s Oxford Street
February 22, 2024Gibson, the Nashville guitar maker beloved by Jimmy Page to Ray Davies, is opening its first big store outside the US just off London’s Oxford Street, where VIP visitors will be ushered into a secret bar accessed via a door hidden in a red phone box. Opening to the public on Saturday, the 4,500 sq […]
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Terry Venables obituary
November 26, 2023As a player, coach and manager, Terry Venables possessed one of the sharpest football brains of his generation. His career reached its peak when he guided England to the semi-finals of the European championships on home ground in the summer of 1996, losing to Germany on penalties. But that was only after beating Scotland with […]
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Pete Brown obituary
June 1, 2023The poet and musician Pete Brown, who has died aged 82, made a unique contribution to the world of British rock and blues when he began working alongside Jack Bruce, the singer of Cream, to write lyrics for the supergroup in the mid-1960s. He co-wrote some of their greatest hits, including White Room, I Feel […]
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London’s lost venues – in pictures
May 30, 2020The Stranglers onstage at the Nashville Rooms in 1977. The pub was one of the high spots of the London punk and new-wave circuit. Photograph: Ray Stevenson/REX/Shutterstock AC/DC on stage at the Nashville Rooms, which were on North End Road in Kensington, on 27 May 1976. Live music stopped in 1980 and the venue is […]
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