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Prom 47: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Andris Nelsons What do you choose as an opener for one of the grandest symphonies in the repertoire – a 75-minute musical monument that unfolds in vast arcs of thought and sound, demanding some 100 players? If you’re Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra …

Over the last six years, The 1975 have become our foremost musical experts on a particular strain of social media age ennui, both celebrating and condemning the youth of today. “People”, the noisy glam-punk single the band debuted earlier this week, calls on a generation to “wake up”, throw away …

I have worked out why I take holidays. It’s quite simple really. They turn me into a moron. I drive like a 90-year-old, hunched over the wheel, trundling vacantly down bus lanes, fumbling for the lights, apologising to other drivers with the palm of my hand. I pass days like …

Where’s Animal? And I don’t mean the Muppet. I couldn’t help asking myself this while looking over the latest Mitsubishi pick-up truck, the L200 Series 6, which can trace its ancestry all the way back to 1978. There’s a Barbarian in the range, obviously, and a Warrior and a top …

The release of new Taylor Swift albums are events – secretive, mysterious and inevitability polarising, reflective of a pop titan who everyone has an opinion on. And Lover, her seventh album, has the distinction of following up her most polarising, 2017’s Reputation often a dark and rageful collection of songs …

It’s been two years now since Taylor Swift announced her own death. Reputation, the singer-songwriter’s excellent sixth album, was camp and melodramatic, killing off “the old Taylor” and waging war on anyone and everyone who dared to criticise her. It was sincerity veiled as self-parody, insecurity veiled as breeziness – …

“We get paid to speak on stage,” say each of the four men before us. “You’ve got to be having a laugh.” As well as their maleness and their joint profession, it’s their apparent cerebral palsy that links the quartet. Two use wheelchairs, all of their voices are difficult to …

“The power of the dussy make a grown man cry,” Rapsody declares on “Power”, a track from her 2017 album Laila’s Wisdom. “The day I came up out my mama I saw a grown man cry.” Women’s power, as a source of strength, intellect, emotion and, most importantly, life, has …

Dir: Ric Roman Waugh. Starring: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Piper Perabo, Lance Reddick, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Nick Nolte. 15 cert, 121 mins There comes a time when every action franchise has to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Three films in, the “Fallen” franchise seems to have …

Dir: André Øvredal. Starring: Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, and Gil Bellows. 15 cert, 107 mins There are those among us who feel a chill go down their spine at the very mention of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Alvin Schwartz’s collections of …