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The Royal Albert Hall at 150: ‘It’s the Holy Grail for musicians’ | Music

29 March 2021 cramzine 0 Comments Albert, Black Sabbath, Classical music, Culture, Fleetwood Mac, Folk music, Grail, Hall, Heritage, Holy, Jazz, Led Zeppelin, Marin Alsop, Muse, Music, musicians, Nicola Adams, Nile Rodgers, Opera, Ozzy Osbourne, Paramore, Pop and rock, Regina Spektor, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, royal, Royal Albert Hall, Shirley Bassey, The Who

The Royal Albert Hall is 150 years old today (and the Guardian was there to see it opened by Queen

Slade guitarist Dave Hill: ‘I’d come out of work, put on my costume and suddenly I’d be Superman!’ | Music

8 March 2021 cramzine 0 Comments Costume, Culture, Dave, guitarist, Hill, Music, Pop and rock, put, Slade, suddenly, Superman, Work

It’s half a century since glam rock first dazzled Britain, and Slade had their first hit, Get Down and Get

Marianne Faithfull: ‘I was in a dark place. Presumably it was death’ | Music

15 January 2021 cramzine 0 Comments Coronavirus, Culture, Dark, death, Faithfull, Keith Richards, Marianne, Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger, Music, place, Pop and rock

Marianne Faithfull is on the phone from her home in Putney, south-west London. She sounds exactly like you would expect:

The impossible return of AC/DC: ‘You could feel the electricity in the air’ | Music

13 November 2020 cramzine 0 Comments AC/DC, ACDC, Air, Culture, electricity, feel, Impossible, Music, Pop and rock, return

At the end of an AC/DC show, Angus Young has a routine. After a couple of hours of perpetual motion

Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part one | Culture

5 November 2020 cramzine 0 Comments Andy Warhol, Animal Crossing, Art, Art and design, Books, cheer, Comedy, Culture, Dance, Games, Health & wellbeing, Jonathan Coe, Khruangbin, Life and style, lockdown, Michaela Coel, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Music, Nina Stibbe, No Man's Sky, part, Philip Pullman, Pop and rock, Prince, Richard Osman, Simon Schama, Stage, Television, Television & radio, Tracey Emin, TV comedy

Music Khruangbin – Mordechai Because sometimes what you need during lockdown is to be transported somewhere better by whatever’s in

Harry Shearer: ‘To say Trump is “beyond satire” is an admission of defeat’ | Music

29 October 2020 cramzine 0 Comments admission, Animation on TV, Comedy, Comedy films, Culture, defeat, Donald Trump, Film, Harry, Harry Shearer, Music, Pop and rock, Radio, satire, Shearer, Spinal Tap, Television, Television & radio, Television industry, The Simpsons, This Is Spinal Tap, Trump, TV comedy, US television, US television industry

Unlike pretty much every other person on the planet, actor, voice artist and all round comedy star Harry Shearer, 76,

‘The way I am is an outrage’: the Indigenous Brazilian musicians taking back a burning country | Music

26 October 2020 cramzine 0 Comments Amazon rainforest, Americas, Brazil, Brazilian, Burning, Colonialism, country, Culture, Electronic music, Environment, Folk music, Human rights, Identity politics, Indigenous, Indigenous peoples, Jair Bolsonaro, Metal, mining, Music, musicians, outrage, Pop and rock, Race, Rap, Society, World news

As Brazil’s world-acclaimed biodiversity turns to ashes, President Jair Bolsonaro has praised the country as an environmental role model. “It

Adele – every song ranked! | Music

22 October 2020 cramzine 0 Comments Adele, Culture, Music, Pop and rock, ranked, Song, Soul

40. Now and Then (2008) Released on the flipside of 2008 single Cold Shoulder, Now and Then really sounds like

Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class | Music

14 October 2020 cramzine 0 Comments Activism, British identity and society, class, Class issues, Culture, Family, fat, Fat White Family, Idles, Indie, Inequality, Life and style, Men, Music, Pop and rock, Punk, showdown, Sleaford Mods, Social exclusion, Society, tells, White

On the face of it, two British indie bands being locked in a war of words about class-consciousness might seem

Rage, white supremacy and roses: the art that sums up the Trump era | Culture

6 October 2020 cramzine 0 Comments architecture, Art, Art and design, Arthur Jafa, Books, Comedy, Culture, Donald Trump, era, Film, Games, Lynn Nottage, Melania Trump, Michelle Wolf, Music, Poetry, Pop and rock, rage, Roses, Sicario, Stage, Succession, sums, supremacy, Television, Television & radio, Theatre, Trump, US news, US television, Video art, White, World news

Architecture Travesty in the Rose Garden Since he’s a former real-estate tycoon, it seems fitting that Donald Trump’s tenure should

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