Alison Goldfrapp live at the Roundhouse: ‘like a woman who has recently been extricated from a bin full of unwound VHS tapes’. Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill Imagine a gig – a proper gig – where everyone gets in for free. Now imagine an event where the fabled guest list (a bit of an oxymoron, granted, when [...]

Emergency on planet Earth? You need Sherlock Holmes, The A-Team, and a boy who’s practised an awful lot of balancing. Illustration: sophiehenson.com The world is currently in a parlous state. Everywhere you look, things are the worst they’ve ever been: the seas are filled with oil, the skies with volcanic ash. There are wars, there [...]

Home-clubber. Illustration: Jon & Mick/moderntoss.com That Amazing Camping Trip, Appleby It’s heartwarming to have seen this annual summer camping trip grow in popularity due solely to word-of-mouth recommendation, much like the sporadic and nomadic Mancunian club night That Amazing Thing! which spawned it. With plans to hold another city escape in autumn and an invite [...]