James Rampton

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James writes on television and comedy for the Daily Telegraph, Independent, The Times and The Scotsman.

Articles By James Rampton

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Manticore was owned by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and their manager. The organisation provided the name for the band’s label. Apart from ELP and its...

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When he was a callow youth of 18, German artist Anselm Keifer got a travel grant to follow in the footsteps of his idol, Vincent van Gogh. Some...

Siglo de Oro are a vocal ensemble who specialise in older music – and especially neglected older music – but they have also...

Despite being Mercury nominated, Bazza’s hardly a household name. Nevertheless, his debut album ...

When in the 1990s, Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in...

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk, adapted from Deborah Levy’s 2016 Man Booker shortlistee, has been described as a "psychological drama"....

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“I think you’d better drive,” says Finetime, his face sallow, skull-sockets underscored by...

I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: "Not everyone agreed on the reality of that." Once the domain of Andre Breton’s...