Having played Sherlock Holmes’s politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC’s hit crime series Sherlock, Mark ...

Guitarist Louis Campbell and fiddle player Owen Spafford started playing together as teenagers in the National Youth Folk ...

The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining ...

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One ...

A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male ...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and ...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to get pale He still has one of the great voices of ...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the ...

Heart of Stone (Das kalte Herz) was the first colour film produced by East Germany’s state film studio DEFA, a big-budget ...

It took until the last room of her exhibition for me to gain any real understanding of the work of Australian Aboriginal ...

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades ...

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...