Entertainment

It’s not possible for the audience to hide in the darkness in the Young Vic’s Maria Studio because there isn’t any. Throughout the show the lights remain on and the audience can see every bead of sweat, every grimace, cutting smile and flick of the eye in Mark Lockyer’s physiognomy as he describes his battle with Manic Depression. He can also see the audience. A match has been lit, a mirror erected, so that the audience can peer into the...

5th Dec 2016 The Waiting Room, London Feral, sweaty, and with the faint tang of ammonia, A Giant Dog’s unabashed rock makes their contemporaries look positively repressed. Leave your kids in the car for this one. Scuzzy, joyous and propelled by sex and groove in equal measure, their set tonight is a spectacle in brazen rock ‘n’ roll. The misfit role fits A Giant Dog like your favourite leotard.This latest iteration of A Giant Dog sounds big live, and the...

Having just finished their sold-out UK tour, New York’s PWR BTTM have announced a huge new run of dates for April 2017. Their maiden trip to the UK, in support of their awesome first album Ugly Cherries, saw the band packing out shows, with their London gig selling out in less than a day. Expect millennial ennui filtered through a queer lens. PWR BTTM are currently finishing the follow up album to Ugly Cherries, due for release in 2017. Tickets...

The Vikings star talks to TLE all about female warriors, her role as Helga, and boarding school vibes on set… What attracted you to the role of Helga, are there any similarities between you? She came into the script as this kind of carefree, Viking hippie, who was a fundamental pagan. She was kind of a wild character, and that’s always a fun thing for an actor to play. She’s become a strong, independent woman who’s had to deal with...

Political comedian Matt Forde, once an advisor to the Labour Party, has been on the TV, radio, and comedy circuit for a number of years now, you may well have seen him on Mock the Week among many other shows. He is currently on a national tour and holding a one off Xmas Special at the Leicester Square Theatre on the 15th December with special guests former spin doctor Alastair Campbell and can-barley-spin-on-a-dance-floor Ed Balls. We met up with the...

OK Go's 2009 music video for breakthrough hit 'Here It Goes Again' has almost 34 million views. 34 MILLION. Since then the LA indie rockers have taken every opportunity to use their music videos to join the charmingly practical with high-concept technicality, and their new cut for 'The One Moment' continues the tradition in fine style. That's a lot of exploding paint cans, burst water balloons and splintered guitars, but the results are pretty phenomenal! The video was made in...

It’s ironic that The Unmarried, where “gig meets theatre” by Lauren Gauge, part of Camden People’s Theatre’s All the Right Notes, starts off with a rendition of The Rhythm of Life by Beatbox Academy artists Kate and Nate because it is precisely that that Gauge’s character Luna is running from. Luna’s a lager lout out for a good time. Gauge’s choice of theatrical genre echoes that of Jim Cartwright’s Raz, which some months ago played at Trafalgar Square Studios and...

  This is the world's biggest painting of an elephant - aimed at making a jumbo-size contribution to save the species. The magnificent life-size 'big tusker' has so far taken artist Jonathan Truss three weeks - during which an estimated 2,500 elephants have been killed for their ivory. His elephant appears to be charging from the 15' x 12' canvas in the stunning 3D-like work. Jonathan, 55, whose paintings sell for thousands, set himself the huge challenge to raise money...

Rising from the ashes of the Brexit vote and all the uncertainty London’s migrant population have been plunged into - and from the literal ashes of last year's fire that wrecked a magnificent renovation of South London culture hub the Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), this year’s London Stories project invites us in to listen to 24 migrants talk us through their journeys to the capital. The optimism, community spirit and determination behind the mammoth task of restoring the BAC again after its devastating fire...