Oklou has released the deluxe version of Choke Enough. The digital expanded editionan expansion-pack vinyl will follow on November 28features the FKA twigs duet Viscus, alongside three newly unleashed songs: What's Good, The Fishsong Unplugged, and Dance 2. Listen to those below. Choke Enough arrived in February via True Panther. In June, Oklou released an accompanying remix EP, with contributions from Nick Leon, Malibu, Aaron Hibell, and Jamesjamesjames.
Noughties boybands Busted and McFly have united for a tour that is so huge that, here in the capital, by the time it's through it will have straddle two venues and six nights, over a period of a month and a half. The two groups are facing off as part of the Busted vs McFly Tour, which was announced last autumn.
Missed out in seeing Rachel Zegler doing her for-the-people balcony performance in Evita? No worries, because the star is returning to the West End in 2026, for a very limited run. And she's going to be joined by the triple-threat Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winner Ben Platt. The musical superstars are coming to the Big Smoke for a limited run of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, which tells the story of couple Cathy and Jamie from first meeting to their inevitable breakup
Hynes came back to England to be by the bedside of his mother in hospital, and stayed at home a while after she died in 2023. This tragic disruptionproduced his fifth full-length release, Essex Honey, a clear contender for album of the year. It's a record grounded by grief but fizzing with the memory flashes that came with returning home to the edge of Essex; the record that sounds most like the place he left almost two decades ago.
Henry 'Ike' Clateman is most at home behind the decks, detonating 808s and cheap-synthed dubstep in London basement clubs. Here, he's steeping a piano in delay and letting tiny shoals of melody do their thing. Vocalist Maria Manow should be on stage, striking vape-flavored fervor into the hearts of sweaty moshpits. Now she's letting amorphous, doe-eyed cello melodies float away like abandoned balloons at a birthday party.
This November, English National Opera brings a defining work of modern American music drama to the London Coliseum. Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, first performed in 2000, has already entered the repertory as a contemporary classic, a rarity in the world of opera where even success often means a brief blaze before oblivion. Yet Heggie's opera endures: a work of moral courage and emotional immediacy that continues to challenge audiences wherever it is performed.
The heiress was the younger daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. In 1963, her first husband famously named Annabel's nightclub in London after her. A major figure in the swinging London of the Sixties, Lady Annabel was known for hosting annual parties for the great and the good in Mayfair Clubs and her home at Ormeley Lodge. She is survived by her children, including the former Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and the journalist Jemima Goldsmith.
So far, four Nutcrackers have been announced for London's Christmas 2025 season, starting in November and stretching beyond Christmas Day to the very end of the year. What follows is a guide to those four shows, all splendid in their own way, in chronological order. All are centred on a Christmas Eve party at Clara's home, and the magic that happens as the clock strikes midnight, leading to a series of famous divertissements in Act II;
Four years ago the musical theatre titan was at low ebb: declaring he'd rather go to prison than allow his extremely mid new musical Cinderella to open with social distancing was not be any stretch of the imagination his finest hour. There has been no new musical since then, although him and Tim Rice have written the songs for this year's Birmingham Rep Christmas production, and a full scale new one called The Illusionist is now in the works.
On Sunday, Smith invited Depp (who sued The Sun, the British tabloid, after it referred to him as "wife-beater" but lost the case) to perform "People Have The Power" (the irony!) at her show. As she began her encore, Smith introduced her entire band to the audience, adding: "And Johnny? And Johnny Depp? The original Johnny." So, not only did Depp get an opportunity to play with the legendary singer,
Resale tickets have just gone live meaning that you may still have a chance to see Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood in Greenwich in November. The resale process for Radiohead's O2 gigs isn't as complicated as the general sale was. However, it is still a bit trickier than normal resale. Tickets will only be available on official resale sites, and they'll only be available at face value.
A 40th anniversary concert of Les Misérables will be returning to the Royal Albert Hall next year, the same venue as their original 10th anniversary concert. It'll also mark the show's first return to the Royal Albert Hall since that original concert concept was created. What is now known as the "Arena Concert Spectacular" was developed from the Staged Concert, which played for over 200 performances in the West End and the 25th Anniversary performance at The O2.
I've spent my life determined to be one of a kind perhaps because I'm a twin. During our birth, my younger-by-two-minutes brother's umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. It cut off my air supply, which left me deaf, while his hearing was unimpaired. That's sibling rivalry for you. I use hearing aids and am a strong lip reader, as well as being fluent in British Sign Language. When I take my aids out to sleep,
Many years ago, I was rehearsing with a band in a rehearsal room in New York. From the next-door studio came the sound of a series of some of the biggest disco hits known to man. Within a few minutes we were happily chatting to the members of the legendary KC and The Sunshine Band. If you're not old enough to remember them, KC and The Sunshine Band were huge in the 1970s selling over 100 million records worldwide.
This season at English National Opera begins with Cinderella (Rossini's La Cenerentola), landing at the London Coliseum in a bold reimagination that sets the tone for ENO's Autumn/Winter 2025 season. With a red carpet rolled out in front of the Coliseum on St Martin's Lane, this new production, directed by Julia Burbach and conducted by Yi-Chen Li, casts Cinderella as a modern heroine who dares to hope for authenticity and connection in a world of appearances.
Every now and again, a scene seems to be bubbling up out of nowhere, and all of a sudden, everyone is talking about it. That is what's happening with the U.K. underground right now. Fakemink is the rapper that you need to know from that world. You might have seen him popping out at Wireless Festival with Drake. This my dog right here.
Noughties emo titans My Chemical Romance have announced a huge UK tour to celebrate 20 years of landmark album The Black Parade. Gerard Way, Ray Toro, Frank Iero and Mikey Way are bringing their Long Live The Black Parade tour to stadiums around the world - and next summer there will be several dates here in London. Wembley Stadium will host the band's only UK dates in the Long Live The Black Parade tour, and the shows will be in July 2026.
"I've come to realize over 24 years that I enjoy making music," Cocker says. "It's a main source of enjoyment. I mean, I enjoy being with my wife and stuff like that. But in terms of creativity, it's my favorite thing to do."
Lad rock is officially back. And the return of beer-soaked, riff-heavy, chorus-yelled rock ain't ending when Oasis' final Wembley gigs wrap up this weekend: next summer Kasabian have announced their biggest ever London headline show at Finsbury Park. Serge Pizzorno and co will be in north London next July, and they're the first headliner announced for Finsbury Park's series of gigs next summer. In 2025 the park was headlined by the likes of Fontaines DC, Stereophonics and Slayer (plus Drake at Wireless).
I was living in fear of the next fucked-up experience, he says. Sitting in a store room above the London venue his band Militarie Gun will later fill with shoutalong aggro-pop energy, the singer is jetlagged but animated as he puts himself back there, his sandy hair peeking from beneath the hood of his sweatshirt. Twice, my bus pulled up as an ambulance pulled away from our house, he continues.
The Regent Sounds recording studio on Tin Pan Alley in London was famously used by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones between the 1960s and early 1980s. Now, having been walled up and lain silent for decades, it is being brought back to life through a multimillion-pound investment that will turn it into a landmark site for rock'n'roll, jazz and blues,
This autumn, the Magic Flute returns to the Royal Opera House stage in a revival of David McVicar's acclaimed production. Running from 10 October to 3 November 2025, the Royal Opera House celebrates the 400th performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute, one of the most popular operas ever written. Mozart's coming-of-age story about true love and the search for wisdom is a repertoire staple of The Royal Opera and is always a crowd-pleaser.
