Music
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Home sweet home
Considered bland and suburban by most, the Home Counties boast a bubbling undercurrent of creativity. UK band Saint Etienne is now singing their praises
Hot platters
The celebrated chef findsinspiration in the company of his12,000-strong vinyl collection.
Sounding board
Natalie Brunner credits her connection to her inner circle with amplifying her work at FM4.
Louder than bombs
US armed forces have a secret weapon: a jazz band that knows how to take a nation by storm.
My Waterloo
With Ukraine’s staging of Eurovision in trouble, a Swedish superstar was asked to step in. How could he ever refuse?
Universal tongue
On her new album, Beirut-born Arabic singer Yasmine Hamdan continues to give (beautiful) voice to common feeling.
Sound of Prague
The Czech National Symphony Orchestra has struck an international chord, with its redoubtable musicianship attracting big-name pop and music-score clients from Ennio Morricone to Sting.
Far out east
Wonderfruit is a festival like no other in the Thai countryside: a beacon of peace where hedonism takes a backseat. Ditch the city attitude, grab a yoga mat and watch the sun go down.
Faith in the future
As resilient and storied as the city she calls home, Marianne Faithfull is far from your average grande rock’n’roll dame.
Wonderfruit: Thailand’s blissed-out party
Wonderfruit is a festival like no other; a beacon of peace and calm where hedonism takes a backseat. Time to ditch the city attitude, grab a yoga mat and watch the sun go down…
