Céline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is not just a film about love and desire, but a film about art – and the symbiosis between subject and painter. (more…)

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This Stones performance had passed me by completely, perhaps because I had long ago mentally dismissed the past half a century of their work. (more…)

Sometimes a bassline just hits the spot – right there in the gut – and carries the whole song. (more…)

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Marlena Shaw’s soul classic Woman Of The Ghetto gets a  summery makeover fusing mellow dance grooves with jazzy sax by Akshin Alizadeh. (more…)

About 20 years ago I was at a loose end in Los Angeles and decided I’d track down Lemmy from Motorhead for his first interview since a health scare. (more…)

Another list song. I first heard this marvellous melancholic tune when I went to see a quartet of new artists at a Bella Union showcase, billed as A Summer Evening at the Union Chapel in 2010. (more…)

I see Neil Simon has died. I must say I had assumed he died decades ago but by coincidence last week I watched Murder By Death, a spoof whodunnit with an all-star cast.

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