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The death of touring
Touring’s not what it used to be. When I were a lad, even big bands would do 30 or 40…
One of the most tuneless, vapid, dismaying things I’ve ever seen: Mötley Crüe, at Bramall Lane, reviewed
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything worse than Mötley Crüe in Sheffield. Nothing more tuneless, empty, vapid and dismaying.…
Read The Spectator article that gave birth to musical minimalism 50 years ago
The Spectator is responsible for many coinages. One of the most significant came in 1968, when an article by our…
When Britain’s avant-garde weren’t so shouty
Niru Ratnam highlights the revival of interest in artists who were popular in the 1960s and 1970s
