On a mission

Brockwell Park, London, May 25

VARIOUS VENUES, CAMDEN

Wendy Rigg is planning a summer of festival fun – but what is it about nostalgic music that makes us feel so good?

The human experience is hard. One of life’s pleasures for Eureka Machines is “having these little tunes, at gigs, that give people a couple of hours to get out of their heads”.

‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi

Close harmonies, smooth grooves, infighting and ‘the bag’: making an album on stage