‘My tent had been washed away overnight’ Dan Silver, Telegraph general manager, Puzzles and Games As a punk kid operating at the heavier end of the UK music press spectrum I’d managed to avoid going to Glastonbury for a decade or so, but that glorious run came to a grim...
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He’ll confine himself to that area, though he did venture to the Pyramid last year, to accompany friends to see the excellent Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. He went too to the poetry tent to hear the Irish singer Imelda May reading her work and talking about WB Yeats. ‘What...
Chop, chop goes the wood splitter, putt, putt goes the motor. Now, watch and see how easily the wood splits. Kevin Verney showed how old-time Mainers used to split their logs for the cook stove. If you missed Verney’s Sunday visit at Woolwich Historical Society’s Farmhouse Museum, you can see...
In the emails he had received in the wake of Amis’s death, he said, the one word that kept coming up was kindness. ‘He was extraordinarily kind. Welcoming. A lot of things you would not associate with Martin from the press he got. Crossing the room to talk to the...
Jack Whitehall is very funny, usually. He’s reliably funny on panel shows, or making documentaries with his curmudgeonly dad, or acting in sitcoms, particularly in his breakthrough role as the post-gap-yah uni lad JP in Fresh Meat. That character – prickly but puppyish, quick to wound but quicker to be...
Howard Donald hailed “the power of music” ahead of the release of a new cinematic adaptation of Greatest Days – the hit musical about Take That. The musician, who performs in the world-famous British pop group alongside Gary Barlow and Mark Owen, said music was able to “touch people’s hearts”...
Forty-six days have now elapsed since Wrexham’s season ended but the afterglow of promotion back to the Football League continues. A record-breaking points tally of 111, plus the memories of a pulsating run-in whose appetite for drama was perhaps best personified by ‘that’ victory over title rivals Notts County, can...
It all came down to one last moment and one last throw-in for Sheffield Wednesday. The comeback of all comebacks in the most entertaining game of the EFL season was sealed with the ensuing chaos after Will Vaulks’ long throw into the area was first headed clear, then sent back into...
Who is Laufey? Well, a simple search will reveal that they are a figure in Norse mythology and the mother of Loki. But in reality, it is the first name of an Icelandic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that has brought the world of jazz, bossa-nova and to a whole new generation....