Category: Features

October 4, 2024 / Features

Mention The Police – the band, not the law enforcement agency – and we tend to firstly think of Sting: he of the boyish voice and blithely melodic songs. Drumming aficionados will certainly remember Stewart Copeland’s flamboyant, reggae-tinged playing, and only then do we come to Andy Summers, the trio’s…

September 26, 2024 / Features

When cellist Karen Hall began accompanying two clowns in their performances, she initially struggled to escape the relative stiffness of her classical training, and share the same playful zone. Then she started taking clown classes, herself. “They were life changing,” she says. “‘Clown’ is such a safe space: you get…

August 31, 2024 / Features

“I have put my genius into my life and only my talent into my works,” Oscar Wilde fibbed, having liberally sprinkled that genius over the likes of Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest. WB Yeats called him “the greatest talker of all time”, and between his works, letters and…