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Bafta interviews and reviewsTuesday, 23 February 2010Read theartsdesk's reviews and interviews for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award-winners.The Hurt Locker: Best film, Best director, Best original screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Sound Fish Tank: Outstanding... Read more... |
Plastic People vs the MinistryMonday, 22 February 2010
Two London clubs currently appear to be under threat. The Ministry of Sound, one of the most successful brands in club music's history, is kicking up a fuss because new housing block planned opposite it may make it vulnerable to noise complaints.... Read more... |
Comic Jason Wood dies at 38Monday, 22 February 2010Comic and reality TV star Jason Wood has died at the age of 38. Wood was a genuinely popular comic among fans and within the industry, and was for many years an Edinburgh Fringe staple. His comedy relied on his distinctive voice and astonishingly... Read more... |
rufusMonday, 22 February 2010Read more... |
Headbanging against repressive regimesSunday, 21 February 2010
A new report from Freemuse, the organisation which campaigns against music censorship, describes the oppression of heavy metal musicians in numerous countries. From the underground to the mainstream, heavy metal is a global phenomenon attracting... Read more... |
Reader offer, Jewish Book WeekSunday, 21 February 2010Jewish Book Week is making a special offer to readers of theartsdesk. From the week of literary discussions taking place at the Royal National Hotel in London, the festival is offering our readers a chance to buy a ticket to four events and to take... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube: 21-27 FebruarySunday, 21 February 2010
This week’s birthday videos include guitarists Andrés Segovia playing a fandango, Japanese heavy metal hero Akira Takasaki and George Harrison. Then there’s Johnny Cash and murdered Afghan singer Nusrat Parsa. It's also the birthday of the mighty... Read more... |
High-Def Hell in The PacificFriday, 19 February 2010Take cover! The Pacific is the new 10-part World War Two epic from executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, a follow-up to their 2001 series Band of Brothers. It was commissioned by HBO, who will premiere it in the States on March 14, and... Read more... |
Steve Reich talks about musicFriday, 19 February 2010Read more... |
Irina awaits the SpringThursday, 18 February 2010The redoubtable and always stylish Russian mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova, who died a week ago at the age of 85, still has a song to sing about the prolonged winter we're enduring. Among many roles in which she plunged in true Slavic fashion to... Read more... |
Mad Man mystery of A Single ManWednesday, 17 February 2010A tiny incidental pleasure in a movie that could use a few more of them is the Mystery Telephone Voice in Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man. It’s the moment when college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) gets some… er… very bad news... Read more... |
Brit Awards 2010, Earls CourtWednesday, 17 February 2010And so to the windswept hangar of Earls Court, and the 30th Anniversary Brit Awards. Except it wasn’t, because as any pedant knows the very first Brits (then mystifyingly entitled the British Record Industry Britannia Centenary Awards) occurred in... Read more... |
