Ache

The past few days I’ve been reading, on Rob Young’s recommendation, Alexandra Harris’ Romantic Moderns, an excellent survey of how British artists and writers in the mid-20th Century tried to reconcile a modernist impulse with the residual lure of English cultural traditions.

Chris Coghill writes new film around the 1990 gig

Out, hippies, out! Four CD set captures the righteous, blues-rocking anger of Warwickshire’s counterculture warriors...

Goodbye heartache, hello fun – and the rich, warm vibes of ’70s soul...

Self-raising sand! Staggering 16-disc time capsule, featuring 72 complete radio shows, all sponsored by the local flour mill...

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s B-road movie. Delightfully daft but poignant, too...

Their breakthrough: platinum-coated rock’n’roll...

They join Foo Fighters, Pulp and Public Image Ltd

Father-daughter dysfunction in Hollywood, from none other than Sofia Coppola. Intimate and very funny...

Dizzying third long-player from Dream Syndicate mainman’s main band...