‘It blows my mind that Jimmy Page wanted to play with us’ … Aerosmith. Photograph: Andre Csillag / Rex Features/Andre Csillag/Rex Features Corinne Bailey Rae, singer There have been so many amazing moments in my career so far: coming off stage to find Prince had been in the audience, playing for Nelson Mandela, being introduced [...]

Ivan Cutting, theatre director at Eastern Angles theatre company. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Anyone out and about in Ipswich in June may have come across a bright yellow camper van parked in one of a number of prominent spots. On closer inspection, they would have found it full of props and publicising a [...]

‘Peter Jackson would be shearing sheep without him’ … Ray Harryhausen and Jackson (right) share the stage. Photograph: Brian J Ritchie, BFI and Bafta It was nearing the end of Bafta’s Ray Harryhausen 90th birthday tribute at the BFI Southbank last Saturday that special effects makeup maestro Rick Baker took to the stage to offer [...]