Inside the “psychopathic” battle for Taylor Swift tour tickets
Buying new SIM cards, taking time off work, and spending hours on hold: UK Swifties explain the all-consuming experience of…
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Royal Blood should know by now a bad gig is never the crowd’s fault
The band threw a tantrum at Radio 1’s Big Weekend. But to good musicians indifference is an opportunity to prove…
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Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour is a vast sci-fi spectacle designed for social media
This retrofuturist extravaganza, like all modern big gigs, is intended to look good on someone’s phone so they can prove…
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A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome
Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás.
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The Proclaimers are still Britain’s best male rock singers
At a recent gig in Leicester, the duo were just as much a juggernaut as they have always been.
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The battle of the Dylanologists
As Bob Dylan tours the UK, his work is being embraced and interrogated by younger critics impatient with the “white…
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Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing “takes advantage” of music fans
Coldplay, Harry Styles and Bruce Springsteen have profited from ticket prices that rise with demand to many times more than…
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The raucous return of Pussy Riot
As Vladimir Putin escalated his war the Russian punk rebels performed in Canterbury, urging him to “jump up into hell”.
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Corporate culture is ruining live music
The rise of tiered ticketing, VIP packages and cordoned-off areas is destroying concerts. Just look at the Rolling Stones.
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Why Grace Jones matters more than ever
At the 74-year-old’s Southbank Centre gig, it’s clear that the political and aesthetic reverberations of her art are still being…
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The Berlin Philharmonic’s “The Golden Twenties” brings to life the city of that decade
From their plush "Digital Concert Hall" you can listen to Thomas Søndergård conduct the magnificent orchestra.
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“There’s a fuck of a lot of people here!”: Tears for Fears at the O2 arena
“This is the biggest venue we’ve ever played in the UK!”
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