Entertainment

A photography exhibition created in partnership with Mental Health UK At Regent's Place in London.

The skaters of the West Bank Jayyous Skatepark have been practicing tricks for a truly international production of A Skate Play – skatepark-based theatre first produced in Brooklyn, New York, five years ago.  This week the Jayyous Skatepark – built last year by international volunteers, skatepark experts from the UK's Skate Pal project, and locals from Skateqilya in the small village near the Palestinian city of Qalqilya – is set to host free outdoor performances of A Skate Play Monday – Friday. The performance,...

It’s autumn, people. The season of layers and sour, public transport BO is upon us. While you’re considering that mid-level tog duvet on the John Lewis website (*note: I may not know this site’s audience) enjoy some of September’s seasonally-melancholy bangers in our latest playlist round-up. The highlights here? Well, The Smashing Pumpkins are good again, which is a Halloween miracle. Fizzy Blood have gone all garage fuzz and written a total earworm, and Canterbury doomsters OHHMS are gearing up...

The Half Moon in Putney is gearing up to host the Music Makers Festival this weekend. Bands from across the UK and Ireland are set to descend upon West London for the two day event which features artists such as AKA George, Michele Stodart from The Magic Numbers and Kim Hayden. Kicking off on Saturday 6th October with sets from Hope, Jack O’Rourke and Two Ways Home the festival will see some 14 artists taking to the stage across the...

Zoe, 47, said it is a "honour and privilege" to become the first woman to host the flagship programme

If there’s one thing that the members of Newcastle based doomed out stoner rock unit Pigs x 7 (or Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs if you want to take a big Ace Ventura style breath and have a go) have a pedigree in, it’s producing unhealthy amounts of noise. Featuring current and former members of rumbling drone outfit Khünnt, their more porcine pursuits see them upping the tempo and doling out troughfuls of groove without losing any of...

Performers from all over the UK, Europe, United States and even Australia descended on Porthcawl in Wales

A beating heart flutters against the centuries of Ghent history in Lam Gods, a show working with the people of the Belgium City, most of whom are non-actors. It is a heart formed by a group of people coming together in a world premiere with Milo Rau at the helm, a Swiss director known for putting world violence centre stage. This dynamic work incorporates the lives of modern-day Belgiums into the depictions of city dwellers as biblical and religious figures...

To mark the 30th anniversary, a statue of Roald Dahl’s beloved fictional character, Matilda Wormwood, has been unveiled facing the man voted the person she would be most likely to stand up to in 2018, President Donald Trump. Inspired by Matilda’s courage and the battle she picks with Miss Trunchbull in the novel, the Roald Dahl Story Company gave the general public the chance to decide who they thought she would be taking a stand against in 2018. Topping that list...