Here’s A Health To The Barley Mow DVD, BFI
We are very lucky here in the British Isles to have a folk cultural tradition that isn’t just ancient and rich in pageantry, it’s also incredibly spooky.
There …

dd/mm/yyyy, On tour
You say “Day month year” – but that’s really as simple as it gets with this Canadian band. Reminiscent of someone like Battles in their speed and intensity, the group’s keyword is probably …

Pulled Apart By Horses show the kids how to RAWK at Underage (5 Aug, Victoria Park, E2), where Ms Dynamite, Is Tropical and Johnny Flynn join the bill …
SBTRKT, Gold Panda, Three Trapped Tigers and …

Chase & Status Feat Tinie Tempah Hitz (Mercury)
If, like me, you view Tinie Tempah with maternal regard, and his adorable pop-rap exploits provoke a strong desire to pinch his cheeks and wobble them hard, …

Joe Wilkinson, Hemel Hempstead
One of the stand-out new sitcoms last year was Stefan Golaszewski’s Him & Her, which managed the difficult trick of mixing balls-out crudity with wit and genuine insight into what makes a …

Strictly Todd Terry, London
In clubland, a fella like Todd Terry needs no introduction. That said, he certainly doesn’t mind it if you decide to name your one-off summertime party after him. Strictly Todd Terry sees …

‘Mug of tea mate, tea in a mug … I just want a mug of tea … I just want what I want’
Eating breakfast late one morning, two men came to sit at an adjacent …

Loyalty, London
There should be a real whiff of authenticity about Loyalty, the debut play by Sarah Helm. Not only is she a journalist who has worked in Washington, the Middle East and Iraq, winning awards …

Leo Fitzmaurice, Nils Norman, Manchester
“The idea came to me on a wet afternoon,” says the artist Leo Fitzmaurice. Since that day he’s collected 800 discarded cigarette packet tops from pavements around the world and fashioned …

A striking presence on stage and in the great days of British film, she played the prison governor of TV’s Within These Walls
Followers of postwar cinema may well recall Googie Withers’s striking presence in It …

Boy Blue Entertainment: Touch, London
Acclaimed street dance company Boy Blue Entertainment is used to impressing its public on a large scale, with its theatre shows Pied Piper and Over The Edge, its pop video contributions …

On The Waterfront, Liverpool
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Royal Liver Building and the opening of the Museum Of Liverpool, this weekend literally shines a light on the architecture of the waterfront as lantern displays …

That’s just the Horrible Bosses actor’s ‘dry, sarcastic, non-winking’ sense of humour, but it is Bateman’s third movie with the former Friends star
You can get away with anything if you keep a straight face, and …

Evergreen noir thriller is the reason your parents’ generation say they preferred it when actors kept their clothes on
In Charles Vidor’s evergreen 1946 oddity Gilda – a studio-bound noir thriller that often feels more like …

An affectionate look at the Orkneys’ reclusive composer proves both touching and revealing
A few weeks ago composer Peter Maxwell Davies made the news by suggesting that audience members who forget to switch off their mobile …

News International says it will ‘defend vigorously’ against attempt to link the paper with phone-hacking issue
News International says a claim taken against the Sun by Jude Law for alleged phone hacking will be “defended vigorously”. …

Royal Albert Hall, London
The Proms usually open with a choral work, and this year, the 117th, began with Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, which formed the second half of a substantial and wide-ranging programme. It proved an …

Weigh anchor with the film-maker James Price and the director of the Shorelines festival Rachel Lichtenstein as they set sail for Southend

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Beginners is a tale of Mills’s seventysomething father coming out. But don’t call him quirky, he’s after big, big audiences
One could be forgiven for associating director Mike Mills with the word “quirky”. His debut film …

Star of The Hour reveals the women she watched to prepare for her portrayal as the pioneer of TV news formats
Fantasy alter egos. We’ve all got them. Truman Burbank led the the kingdom of Trumania …