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Steven Moffat wins at BAFTA Craft Awards

TV Gossip

14 May 2012

Steven Moffat was named Best Writer at this year's BAFTA Craft Awards. The 'Sherlock' co-creator won the prestigious gong after being recognised for 'A Scandal in Belgravia', the opening episode in the second series of the detective drama. The…

Music for Airports: An appreciation by John Foxx

The artist, electro pioneer and friend of Brian Eno the now classic work

19 Oct 2011

I first heard Music For Airports in [legendary krautrock producer] Conny Plank’s studio, as Brian was making it. Christa [Fast] and Inge [Zeininger] were assistants at the studio. Brian roped them in to sing. I thought it was a great idea. I thought…

Music for Airports - An appreciation

How Brian Eno's landmark album connects 60s minimalism, 70s Krautrock and IDM

19 Oct 2011

I discovered Music for Airports aged 18 via TV and David Bowie. Eno's involvement with Bowie's Low and Heroes put him on my radar, but the deal sealer was learning that the theme to long-running BBC programme Arena was 'Another Green World' from his…

Minimal: Glass at 75 - Programme highlights

Glasgow festival features, Scottish Ensemble, Bang On A Can and composer himself

19 Oct 2011

How fragile is Glass? And how shattering? Audiences have had plenty of time of late to ponder the cause and effect of veteran New York composer Philip Glass’ considerable body of work. Glass himself appeared with his Ensemble to perform the dizzying…

Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells

Soundscapes accompanied by spoken-word passages from contemporary thinker Rick Holland

13 Jun 2011

(Warp) Featuring the words of poet and contemporary thinker Rick Holland, Drums Between The Bells isn’t so much a collection of songs as a series of soundscapes accompanied by spoken-word passages, here uttered by nine people, including actress…

Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing

10 May 2011

(Janet Records) The hidden past of Fovea Hex vocalist and focal point Clodagh Simonds is almost as colourful as her present on this beguilingly mysterious album of new songs supported by an ensemble – neither the words 'band' nor 'group' lend the…

Pete Townshend wishes he didn't join The Who

Music Gossip

24 Mar 2011

Pete Townshend wishes he had never joined The Who. Despite the band being considered one of the greatest rock groups of all-time, the guitarist believes he could have been just as successful as a solo performer. 'My Generation' rocker Townshend is…

Coldplay pushed by 'brutal' producer

Music Gossip

16 Jan 2011

Coldplay are working with a "brutal" producer on their new album. The 'Viva La Vida' hitmakers started writing their forthcoming fifth album with Brian Eno, but he suggested they also draft in someone else to help them edit their work, which led to…

Glasgow's Minimal festival lines up work by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Ingram Marshall

Festival of minimalism features performances of Eno's Apollo and by Michael Nyman and David McAlmont

6 Oct 2010

Minimalism’s hypnotic pulses and repetitions are heard in everything from krautrock and prog to post-rock and techno. But unlike the ear-splitting, brain-freezing intensity of progenitors such as La Monte Young and Charlemagne Palestine, it was the more…

Christiane F

13 Nov 2009

(18) 120min (Arrow) Uli Edel’s grimy, influential 1981 docudrama about one young girl’s descent into the drug scene of 70s Berlin has lost none of its fury. Edel, who went on to direct Last Exit to Brooklyn and The Baader Meinhof Complex, uses…

Interview with Sum author David Eagleman

4 Nov 2009

Brian Eno composed a score for it. Stephen Fry sent sales rocketing when he mentioned it on Twitter and Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Miranda Richardson have been recorded reading from it. Kirstin Innes meets David Eagleman, author of Sum, one of 2009’s…

Edinburgh festival highlights: The top 30 shows

August’s finest entertainment at a glance

13 Jul 2009

We bring you a selection of the best shows at Edinburgh this year across all the festivals, including barnstorming retelling of the Goethe story Faust, former Talking Head David Byrne in experimental mood, The Wire's creator David Simon and theatre…

Blue

16 Oct 2008

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE While its existence in any sort of visual medium is an artistic victory, the ambition of Derek Jarman’s Blue becomes most apparent when you discover that he drummed up money for the film by staging it as a series of live…

U2 recording sessions ‘going great’

31 Aug 2007

U2’s new album is practically ‘making itself’ according to the Irish group’s producer Daniel Lanois. The band have drafted in Brian Eno and Lanois to help write and produce their latest musical offering, with the latter planning to use shots of…