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Portobello Film Festival  2026 – A Return to the Radical

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The 31st Portobello Film festival screens for free more than 200 new independent films, documentaries and music films from Thursday 3 to Sunday 20 September at the Muse Portobello, 6- 10:30 pm Exploding Galaxies, Pink Floyd, David Hockney, Collecting Art Making. For more than three decades Portobello Film Festival has been celebrating independent film making and Festival culture at the original epicentre of the British Underground. Free to enter and free to attend, the festival is an annual reminder of a time when Ladbroke Grove was to London what San Francisco was to America. The area has provided the perfect condition … Continue reading Portobello Film Festival  2026 – A Return to the Radical

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Freddie’s moustachioed “Castro clone” look

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One of the greatest showmen of the twentieth century Freddie Mercury, was a great pretender, a killer queen and a champion of the world with his searing on-stage energy with an unparalleled unique voice. Behind the musician, lyricist’s glamour and the creative force behind one of the most culturally significant and musically diverse bands the world has ever seen, his former fiancée and confidante Mary Austin recollects in A Life in Lyrics, Mercury could wouldn’t countenance the dreary wastelands beyond Zone 1 when buying a house for himself: “He didn’t want anything that felt suburban. It had to be London”.The … Continue reading Freddie’s moustachioed “Castro clone” look

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Personal rediscovery, pursuing passion to recapture a lost love on an impulse

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How do we lose touch with things we love? And is it possible to find out way back to them? These questions drive professional writer and managing editor of news organisation Coda Story, Nadia Beard on a quest to reclaim the dreams of her childhood for her adult self. Swimming and cycling once you learn you never forget is the same true with piano? Beard frames her musical homecoming as a journey of personal rediscovery after turning away from music following university. Until them, “playing the piano and cello was the core of my life” Nadia remembers. Growing up in … Continue reading Personal rediscovery, pursuing passion to recapture a lost love on an impulse

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Dolly Parton: Her legacy

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Dolly Parton, the country singer from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, died aged 80 after a brief battle with cancer,  will be remembered for her songs that told beautiful stories so honestly, such as Coat of Many Colors, Jolene and Will Always Love You. In her seven-decade career, Parton won 10 Grammy awards, sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and wrote in excess of 3, 000 songs. Dolly Parton in1980 was filming her first Hollywood movie, 9 to 5, her idea for the tune title song that would become the movie’s theme song. Her guitar was banned from the set, … Continue reading Dolly Parton: Her legacy

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Pescador gets two Raindance Nominations

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Harry Domenico Rossi’s debut feature film Pescador,  will be making its European premiere at Raindance Film Festival on 18th June, 2026. Pescador is described as fantastic and meditative after receiving two Raindance nominations Best Director of a Debut Feature for Rossi and Best Performance in a Debut Feature for Alex Wanebo. Pescador  appears in London following its World Premiere at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI Goa). Rossi also received the Peter Brunette Award for the Best Director at RiverRun International Film Festival where the jury statement announced “every step was a creative risk that pays off in poetry.” Pescador features a … Continue reading Pescador gets two Raindance Nominations

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Transformation from pop icon to song craftsman

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George Michael, pop star who bleached his hair blonde, wore tiny shorts and at the same time, critiqued his own image mercilessly, wrote one of the biggest hits of our age in “about an hour” in his childhood bedroom and would go on to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians of all time from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder. He lived through the AIDS crisis and one of the most homophobic periods of British history and yet when he finally came out, he did so boldly and unapologetically. Wham! Were the first Western pop group to play in Communist … Continue reading Transformation from pop icon to song craftsman

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Mimetic anonymity voice control

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Trained as a Soprano for music theatre in the 1990s, at a stage school in New York, she learnt to control her voice into mimetic anonymity to fit the female characters of Walt Disney films and Broadway musicals. Mastering the problem of her vocal break the passaggio  the yodel-ish sound  that happens to everyone when their voice moves register, from chest to head was critical for stamping out individuality in her voice. In Vocal Break, Lauren Elkin seamlessly blends memoir, feminist manifesto and cultural history to explore a plurality of female singing voice- and how women have used them to defy convention, … Continue reading Mimetic anonymity voice control

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Asha Bhosle, Bollywood playback singer dies at 92

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Popular Bollywood playback singer, music icon, and film industry’s last Mughal passed away at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai today leaving behind her works. a body of work. “Her voice carried timeless brilliance” PM Modi said.  “ I like doing extraordinary things, Music has been my life. It has given me so much. I decided to do a spectacular concert on my 90th birthday. I doubt if anyone in the world has achieved this feat” Said the legend, who remained defiant of age and expectation. “I was around 10 when I started my singing career in 1943,Over the decades, I have … Continue reading Asha Bhosle, Bollywood playback singer dies at 92

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Western classical music and minds of all its greatest composers

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“Let me be your Ruskin or Baedeker, suppose a first visit, only a week, to Florence or Burges, what must absolutely not to be missed” Robin Holloway offer himself to as a master guide for this voyage. “My aim in this book is to offer an invitation to the glorious long voyage of western classical music for all those who enjoy and love it, and seek to deepen their enjoyment and love without getting caught up in musicology and technicalities: an entry to Aladdin’s cave, an injunction to taste and see re-angled for the sense of hearing in all its … Continue reading Western classical music and minds of all its greatest composers

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Western classical music and minds of all its greatest composers

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“Let me be your Ruskin or Baedeker, suppose a first visit, only a week, to Florence or Burges, what must absolutely not to be missed” Robin Holloway offer himself to as a master guide for this voyage. “My aim in this book is to offer an invitation to the glorious long voyage of western classical music for all those who enjoy and love it, and seek to deepen their enjoyment and love without getting caught up in musicology and technicalities: an entry to Aladdin’s cave, an injunction to taste and see re-angled for the sense of hearing in all its … Continue reading Western classical music and minds of all its greatest composers