The prog interview

I guess my main preoccupations at 16 were just trying to stay out of trouble. I was incredibly unsuccessful with finding girlfriends and things like that. Really, very, very unsuccessful. I think I wa

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

From Cheshire village halls to LA Babylon, he’s the obsessive music fan who rode the Hammond grooves of The Charlatans through baggy, Britpop and beyond . But how has his band remained together through 37 years of chaos and tragedy as well as triumph? “We had to get used to heaviness,” says Tim Burgess .

November 13, 1949 – August 4, 2025

it’s a funny old world

MY FIRST LONDON HOME