Creeper ’s new album is a rich, lascivious feast of vampires and rock’n’roll theatre, Jim Steinman-style. But the real Creeper story starts with shoestring punk gigs, DIY video shoots, community spirit, hard work and… er, sales work.

Vampire rock bands, hooded mistresses and decapitated heads? Creeper are back with fangtastic sequel album Sanguivore II , and frontman Will Gould is ushering us into the dark depths of the band’s prop store

For Tamsin Greig , a Sally Wainwright drama was a pipe dream. Until, she tells Amy Raphael , she joined a punk band and learned to play bass

Rebecca Lucy Taylor talks choirs, cricket, Sparks, Freddie Mercury and indie sleaze

CONCERT HEAVEN Careful the tale you tell Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano) et al Wigmore Hall (December 2020) My ‘Concert Heaven’ choice is a recital called ‘Careful the tale you tel

Hildur Guðnadóttir is scrolling through her phone. Whereas most people use the device to collect photographs and notes alongside contact numbers, the Icelandic composer records snippets of music. Thes