Sophia Deboick
20 March 2024
A new album from a fading Italian culture
This new music shines a light on the Carnic Alps, one of Europe’s most obscure regions with a fast-fading culture
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Dreaming of a place in the sun
The British dream of escaping to warmer climes is becoming harder to achieve post-Brexit
Read the full article03 January 2024
European artists on tour: the year ahead in music
Artists from across the continent will grace UK stages in 2024
Read the full article20 December 2023
The year Italian rock went global
After over half a century of trying, 2023 was the year that continental European rock truly broke the rest of the world
Read the full article06 December 2023
The Sound of Starmer: the Labour leader's Ode to Beethoven
The Labour leader’s love of EU anthem Ode to Joy has caused faux outrage.. and hopes that he might just be a Rejoiner after all
Read the full article29 November 2023
Sounds of isolation – why musicians flock to Iceland
Vast, desolate and magically odd – what is it about Iceland that makes musicians so desperate to record there?
Read the full article29 November 2023
Britain is importing European colour into its culture
Southend’s adoption of European culture cannot fix all its problems but it is having shocking social impacts
Read the full article08 November 2023
Trappist beers migrate to England
Now you can try your first Belgian beer closer to home
Read the full article18 October 2023
Adventurous playgrounds: where Scandinavian design meets English imagination
After WWII, Britain started building new play areas for its children – and imported its inspiration from Europe
Read the full article27 September 2023
The man who made Marbella
As two TV series and the life of its former mayor show, the Spanish beach resort has become a byword for glamour and corruption
Read the full article20 September 2023
Loving the alien, Klaus Nomi
It may be 40 years since the death of Klaus Nomi, but the otherworldly, avant-garde icon of European pop seems more relevant than ever
Read the full article30 August 2023
Why Málaga is game for a technological renaissance
Slowly but surely, old Europe is giving way to the new
Read the full article25 July 2023
The subversive statue that captures the heart of Vilnius
The city is celebrating its past and future on Saint Christopher’s day
Read the full article25 July 2023
Enrique Bunbury is the resurrection
Spain's rock’s greatest frontman was silenced by “sand in my lungs”. Now, miraculously, he’s back
Read the full article12 July 2023
Meet the rapping shepherd of the French Alps
Felix Portello’s protest rap has earned him a different sort of following from the one he’s used to
Read the full article29 June 2023
The making and breaking of rock’s first openly gay star
Jobriath dreamed of combining Dietrich with Dylan and playing at the Paris Opera. Then reality bit
Read the full article07 June 2023
Sparks still fly on this side of the Atlantic
Sparks still have a truly unique sound but it's yet to be seen how their latest work will influence musicians this side of the Atlantic
Read the full article24 May 2023
Flamenco, the symbol that can’t be tamed
Since the 2008 crash, Spain has been remaking itself. But, the tradition of Flamenco remains unchanged
Read the full article17 May 2023
The war the Eurovision rules could not silence
As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle
Read the full article09 May 2023
Eurovision says ‘nul points’ to mediocrity
The impact Eurovision has is too important to be dismissed as a fluffy amateur festival
Read the full article26 April 2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Sayonara to a great outernationalist
The Japanese composer’s work was imbued with a healthy disregard for musical and national boundaries
Read the full article19 April 2023
God only knows why they went: The Beach Boys’ Dutch disaster
In the early 70s, the band decamped to the rural Netherlands to make a ‘comeback’ album that nearly finished them
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Cologne Cathedral: An inspiring place to make an album
Grandbrothers’ new release Late Reflections matches the landmark’s emotional heft
Read the full article30 March 2023
The sound of genius: The musical legacy of Picasso
It is apparent that Picasso’s name comes to the lips of singers with the same ease as “Jesus” or “Elvis”
Read the full article23 March 2023
Chaim Topol: Forever Tevye
The late Israeli actor and singer performed If I Were a Rich Man more than 3,500 times in multiple productions of Fiddler on the Roof
Read the full article16 March 2023
In praise of Kylian Mbappé, the young god
Arguably the greatest footballer in the world has inspired a plethora of songs across Europe
Read the full article09 March 2023
Iceland’s dark daughters
Kælan Mikla bring their witchy synth-punk to the UK for the first time since the pandemic
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Monica Zetterlund: The musical expressionist
How Sweden’s Eurovision loser became perhaps Europe’s greatest-ever jazz singer
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Rocking the classics
From The Rolling Stones and The Cure to Jean-Louis Murat: How musicians excel at melding literature and song
Read the full article23 February 2023
Snow Ghosts: a deep sense of unease
The British trio are back with more of their despairing, sinister sounds on new album The Fell
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The best days of our lives
Music has long tried to solve the riddle of childhood and recapture the point of view of the child that we all once were
Read the full article09 February 2023
The jukebox of delights
25 years since Mamma Mia! first premiered the jukebox musical is unlikely to go away any time soon
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