Thundermother

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

The genre-mixing US band return with hard-hitting album, following last year’s Trump-castigating single.

From pop star to Kitchen Disco icon, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has brought joy to lives and homes across the globe. She talks to Rosamund Dean about marriage, menopause and why the music must go on

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

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