Alison moyet symphony hall, birmingham 27 february

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

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There are many Stings, but his determination to keep his music driving forwards means that audiences haven’t seen much of the pugilistic garage rocker who forced himself into the big league. Until now

Aside from a performance at Love Supreme Festival last year, we haven’t seen Sananda Maitreya play live in the UK for quite some time. Here for nine shows, it’s been 23 years since he last officially