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Dining across the divide: ‘He looked like a Green voter. As you get older you realise it’s unicorn politics’

A part-time musician and an office manager disagreed on benefits and work-life balance, but ​where did they stand on community responsibility?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6

‘It’s more freaky, more balls to the wall’: how alt-country won over a new generation

From Waxahatchee and Florry in the US to Brown Horse and Little Grandad in the UK, a wave of young songwriters are reinvigorating the subgenre’s earnest emotion and twang

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1

Robert Plant’s Saving Grace review – self-effacing superstar still sounds astonishing

Playing a mix of traditional folk and radically rearranged acoustic Led Zeppelin classics, the former Zep frontman is in fine voice – but also happy to step out of the spotlight

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025

Lankum’s Daragh Lynch on making the album of the year: ‘We finally nailed what we wanted to be’

Guardian writers have voted False Lankum 2023’s best record. The band’s guitarist explains how they overcame Covid, boredom and their ‘gruelling’ creative process

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2023

Lankum review – more like an exorcism than a gig

The Dublin doom-folk favourites crown a momentous year with a magnificent assault on the senses and a set rich in hypnotic tales of woe

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2023

An 80th Birthday Concert for Bert Jansch review – moving homage to 60s folk guitar hero

Pentangle’s Jacqui McShee as well as Robert Plant, Bernard Butler and Sam Lee were among stellar acts celebrating the late musician in impressive style

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023

‘How did I find the lump? I was masturbating’: Lauren Mahon on sex, breasts and the Big C

After a cancer diagnosis, 9 in 10 people experience sexual dysfunction. But the presenter of You, Me and the Big C is determined to change everything

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2023

Weed-choked pavements anger residents as ‘rewilding’ divides UK towns and cities

Councils are letting grass and weeds grow to increase urban biodiversity. But many people are unhappy with the result

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2023

Julie Byrne review – elegiac ache and nuanced feelings

Two years on from the death of her friend and musical collaborator Eric Littmann, Byrne tours the album they were working on together, in a performance of mesmerising beauty

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2023

Anti-Tory coalition leaves party reeling and ministers at risk after polls disaster

In Hertfordshire’s towns, as across so much of formerly ‘true blue’ England, the appetite for change proved decisively strong

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2023