After the huge success of 2020’s ‘Dreamland’, Glass Animals had a lot of hype to live up to with this fourth album. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t measure up. There are plenty of interesting sounds and influences to be found here - a bit of electronica he…

As Andrew McMillan heads to Durham Book Festival, Ann Chadwick spoke to him about finding literature, happiness, and love. Can literature transform lives? “God, yeah, I think so,” Andrew McMillan says. The poet is something of a northern star for New Writ…

Sheffield’s Mock Tudors knock out the kind of rumbustious rock and roll that is redolent of the sticky carpet in the back room of your favourite pub, bags of salty peanuts, and “Last orders please!” They’re playing Sunderland at the very excellent Pop Rec…