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Chill out at coolest festival of them all
Friday 20 April 2012
Snowbombing, a dance extravaganza in the Austrian Alps, has become a highlight of the musical year, says Elisa Bray
Album: Black Eyed Peas, The Beginning (Interscope)
Sunday 28 November 2010
Hands in the air if you care to join the joyless party
Album: Various composers, Fiction – Quatuor Ebene & Guests (Virgin Classics)
Sunday 24 October 2010
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson did it first.
Snowbombing Festival, Mayrhofen, Austria
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Mayrhofen is a tranquil, quaint mountain village. But for one week in April, by 9pm it is a hive of activity, its chalet-lined streets filled with revellers in fancy dress. The day's snowboarding and skiing has taken place, so music takes over.
Album: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love (Nonesuch)
Sunday 04 April 2010
Put on your dancing shoes: it's Imelda Marcos – the musical
Wild Things: Q&A with Spike Jonze and Max Records
Thursday 10 December 2009
The director and star of 'Where The Wild Things Are' discuss their new film
This little piggy will feed 150 people...
Sunday 30 August 2009
Crispy yet tender, hog roasts are the latest must-have addition to upmarket barbecues. Nina Lakhani and Gareth Francis report
Album: Brighton Port Authority, I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat (Southern Fried)
Sunday 01 March 2009
Brighton Port Authority is the latest incarnation of Norman Cook. The concept is that BPA's songs could have been recorded "sometime during the Seventies", which really means it's a repository for stuff that wouldn't get the Fatboy Slim fans going nuts. And also an excuse to hook up with his friends. The novelty Afro-pop single "Toe Jam" has David Byrne in supremely irritating form, but Martha Wainwright's lover's rock number "Spade" is worthy of Susan Cadogan or Janet Kay.
Trail Of The Unexpected: Carnival in Salvador
Saturday 07 February 2009
Making merry in the capital of Afro-Brazilian culture
The last dance: The End opens its doors for final time to host party to end all parties
Wednesday 21 January 2009
The End, the London nightclub which helped Fatboy Slim find fame, shuts on Saturday. But recession is not to blame for the latest closure in clubland. Jerome Taylor reports
Rhythm king: The return of the Roland 808 drum machine
Monday 15 December 2008
The TR-808 drum machine was the sound of the Eighties. Now it's back – courtesy of Kanye West's new album, out today. Rhodri Marsden feels the beat
Sandi Thom: Life beside the seaside
Wednesday 03 September 2008
After losing out on a country cottage, Sandi Thom decided to go for a shore thing with a flat in Brighton, complete with balconies and a sea view
Label profile: Skint Records
Friday 07 March 2008
“Fuse dance and rock.” These historic words were to be the launch pad for Skint Records. They were given as a recommendation to Norman Cook - aka Fatboy Slim - by Damian Harris, one of Skint’s founders who knew Cook from their days working in a Brighton record shop.
At the time Harris was working at Loaded Records, Cook was deejaying in Brighton.
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