Entertainment

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,...

After releasing their debut album, a monstrous slab of dark experimental rock Yours Sincerely Dr. Hardcore in 2012 and at the peak of their sci-fi powers Wrexham’s Gallops soon announced they were no more and broke up in 2013. In 2016, almost three years to the day, they announced their return. “We missed it too much, basically having some time away from the band gave us a fresh perspective and made us realise that Gallops still has life in it....

The Beslan School Massacre in Russia began on September 1st 2004 and lasted for three days before special forces brought it to an end. Of the 1,100 hostages held by the Chechen rebels, around 385 were killed, 186 of them children. Us/Them is a physical theatre response by playwright Carly Wijs and features two protagonists, a boy and girl, who interweave around the audience a web of their very different imaginary accounts of what it was and may have been...

There's a healthy mix of material for our first playlist of the year. We're still reeling from Run The Jewels' surprise Christmas Day release of their third LP. With the Presidential Inauguration and the civil unrest in Washington that accompanied it fresh in our minds, Killer Mike and El P's stylised sermonising feels like vital listening. Elsewhere we have the first hints of new material in ages from Arcade Fire and Japandroids and atmospheric loveliness from Bonobo and SOHN. If...

This production directed by Helena Kaut-Howson and translated by Jeremy Brooks and Kitty Hunter-Blair really is in the anguished lows as it opens the Arcola’s commemorative Russian Revolution season. It’s Maxim Gorky’s best known play, heralds the birth of theatrical social realism, made his name in 1902 but was lambasted by the critics then for its rather despairing and unredemptive avant-garde portrait of those who occupy the “lower depths” of society. Akira Kurosawa made a Japanese version of the play...

Overwhelming problems face Tamsin in Katherine Soper’s debut Bruntwood Prize winning 2015 play. Her younger brother Dean has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and cannot leave the house. Even so his benefits are being disputed and are at risk. The only place Tamsin, lacking in qualifications, can find much needed work, is in a post industrial “fulfilment centre” aka a packing warehouse on a zero hours contract. The stresses are many: Tamsin must meet her “targets” in order to be asked back...