Readers recommendMusicReaders recommend: songs about hearing and playing records – resultsPerusing the record shops and jukeboxes of the musical landscape, RR regular DarceysDad brings home a rich bag of goodies on display from last week’s topic
In this web-driven digital era, music is instantly available in so many ways that certain formats simply aren’t made any more. For some, that’s a concept hard to get your head around. There are still aficionados of the eight-track, and yes, everybody loves a mixtape cassette, but somehow, there is nothing quite like that simple flat disc of grooved plastic: the record.
The 10 best time travellers – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email As Richard Curtis prepares to release About Time, a romantic comedy about time travel, and Doctor Who turns 50, a look back at others who have hopped around the space-time continuumWho else should have made the list? Have your say in the comments, and your idea could be featured in our alternative readers' 10 best next week Tom Lamont
The intimate art of Michael Stipe – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The REM singer-songwriter is releasing the first in a series of publications focused on his multifaceted approach to art. In Volume 1, images from his 37 years of creating are collected and assembled, with Stipe also posing as a subject for others
TheatreReviewRoyal Exchange theatre, Manchester
David Grieg’s rowdy, informal yarn makes a pleasingly oddball antidote to the classic Christmas show
Devils may not seem very festive but David Greig’s tale of midwinter magic is an inspired bit of Christmas programming, creating the feeling of being gathered cosily around the fire. Through story and song, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart transports us to a snow-blanketed Scottish border town, weaving a good old-fashioned yarn.
Western Australia This article is more than 1 month oldWA fires: homes destroyed as firefighters battle blaze south of PerthThis article is more than 1 month oldNew warnings for fire in the Keysbrook area, which Emergency WA said was out of control and burning fast
Three homes have been destroyed by a fast-moving bushfire that ripped through a suburb in Perth’s hilly east.
Confirmation of losses from the Parkerville blaze came as a fresh emergency warning was issued on Friday for a fire in the Keysbrook area, east of the Mandurah.
Master of mischief … Simon David.Master of mischief … Simon David.Lockdown cultureComedySimon David plays the frenzied host for a jolly hour of frivolity as an array of comics showcase the joys of mischief
For this April Fools’ Day, comedian Simon David has become the April Fools Gay. That is, he dresses up in a baby blue onesie and jester’s hat, then presents his set before a backdrop of cut-out emojis. In an online fundraiser for the transgender support fund FiveforFive, David appears to prank various friends, his boyfriend and the authorities – resulting in the demise of his relationship and a hefty fine.
BluesInterviewBowie, bed-hopping and the blues: the wild times of Dana GillespieGarth CartwrightShe tamed Keith Moon, got laughed into bed by Bob Dylan and went to a young David Bowie’s house for tuna sandwiches – but the blues singer’s 72 albums are what really define her
“No one has understood how deeply rooted in music I am because they got distracted by my tits,” Dana Gillespie complains.
Now 72, the singer and songwriter’s curvaceous figure ensured she regularly appeared in both tabloids and films from the 1960s to 80s but, she says, this was a mere sideline: music was always her mission in life, it’s just that the British refuse to take her seriously.
America's dirty divideNew YorkThere’s a century of toxic sludge hiding in the Gowanus Canal, but it may not be enough to stop a mega-developer from building on it
In November, gigantic yellow excavators began scooping up the poisonous sludge colloquially known as “black mayonnaise” from the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York – a momentous step in a prolonged cleanup effort, 10 years after the waterway’s designation as a Superfund site.
BusinessEU and China in 'bra wars' dealThe EU and China finally brokered a deal over the so-called "bra wars" dispute yesterday which should allow around 80m items of Chinese-made clothes blocked at European ports to be released from the middle of next week.
The agreement, brokered by Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, and his Chinese counterpart, Bo Xilai, during more than 24 hours of tense negotiations in Beijing, is due to be approved by the EU's 25 member states today despite lingering misgivings among protectionist-minded countries.