Entertainment

Mac DeMarco has announced This Old Dog, his third album and first full-length since 2014’s Salad Days, on May 5th 2017 worldwide. In conjunction with today’s album announcement, DeMarco is announcing a North American tour and sharing two lead singles - “My Old Man” and “This Old Dog.”  DeMarco says, “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving to the West Coast I thought I’d get to finishing it quickly. But then I realized that moving to a new...

There’s plenty of drama in Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight about friendship and the exodus of Liverpudlians living in 1960s slums to new purpose built town Skelmersdale, but Mark Rice-Oxley’s Paul, best friend of parent-less Emlyn, is directed by Amelia Sears to stand as still as one of Anthony Gormley’s iron men statues on Merseyside’s Crosby Beach at the top of the play. Basked in Joshua Pharo’s Rothko-esque very northern feeling like light, Polly Sullivan’s molten stage and landscape is...

Critic Mark Shenton wrote of the 2016 Escaped Alone production, now back at the Royal Court for a second run that he wouldn’t be surprised “if we woke to headlines today that described exactly what she'd foretold.” The play by Caryl Churchill premiered before the UK left the EU, a little before all the anger at Europe’s response to the Refugee Crisis and before we had an unelected Prime Minister who seems to enjoy holding hands with Donald Trump as...

We're huge fans of ArcTanGent at TLE. If you're a fan of post rock, guitar music and generally heavier-than-thou time signature weirdness, there really is nothing else like it. That's why yesterday's ATG 2017 headliner announcement has us excited. Explosions in the Sky and Converge, on the same bill, playing their only UK shows of the year. Outstanding. The guys at ATG rarely miss a trick when it comes to filling the top slots on the bill. In 2016 we were...

Comedian Jamali Maddix's new show, ‘Chickens Come Home To Roost’, takes a dark, frank and honest look at life through the eyes of a self-confessed miscreant, whose upbringing, friends and family have given him a distinctly considered and shrewd outlook on issues of race, economics and the law. His natural confidence and charm allow him to tread gracefully across more sensitive topics leaving many of his contemporaries behind. We caught up with him for a chat. What can people expect from...

Time for a reccie up to Brecon - Green Man have just announced the headliners for their 15th anniversary year and it looks killer. PJ Harvey, Ryan Adams and Future Islands will hit the Mountain stage over three glorious days, heading a bill that will also see appearances from BadBadNotGood, Angel Olsen and Jon Hopkins. Check out the full line-up below. Green Man 2017 takes place between 17th – 20th August  Tickets on sale here.

One of British comedy’s most exciting rising stars, Tez Ilyas is heading out on his debut nationwide tour. Made in Britain is his second stand up show, which sold out every single performance (including extra shows) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016 and gained spectacular critical acclaim. One reviewer said: ‘Tez talks, and you should listen. TEZ Talks is a powerful and poignant piece of topical comedy, boldly exploring what life is life for the average British Muslim. Tez Ilyas...

Eleanor's debut stand up show ‘Walk of Shame’, which premiered at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival to critical acclaim, is set to embark on a nationwide tour UK next month. The tour takes in 23 dates starting on 3rd February at the Brighton Komedia and culminating on 30th September at Bollington Arts Centre. Ferocious clubber and party girl Eleanor Conway has always been a woman of extremes; she partied around the world as a music journalist, ran off to Asia...

The Club, starring and written by Ruaraidh Murray, comes to London’s Vaults Festival from 1st – 5th March after a hugely successful sell out and critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival run last year, that premiered this new theatre production. This dark and seedy comedy also stars Mark Farrelly, think Phoenix Nights meets the Sopranos, if that is even possible! 1) What’s the inspiration behind ‘The Club’? The inspiration behind The Club was London's legendary 90’s club, The Tardis. As they say,...