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Good morning culture fans. I hope you won't be crying your hearts out/looking back in anger/insert appropriate Oasis lyric here this morning if you are trying to bag reunion tickets. Yes, it's actually, actually happening, and it's going to be a big morning for waiting in online ticket queues. But, as our music editor Roisin wrote this week, it will be worth it. "No other rock band of their time really compares when it comes to that narrative arc: the humble origins, the difficult childhoods then the rise to global fame," she says. "The partying, the excess. Then the Romulus and Remus-level fallout of 2009… and now, the reconciliation."
Mark Beaumont agrees. This is the perfect moment for a reunion, he says, just the right time for "a monumental moment; an erasure of long-ingrained generational divides and a modern cultural closure". That's partly because this year marks 30 years since the release of Definitely, Maybe, the band's era-defining debut album. Mark also looked back on the album that launched them into the Britpop stratosphere. |
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Band of brothers: a much anticipated Oasis reunion is finally happening (PA) |
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plunges listeners into the lakes and seas of a "swimming god" before bringing us up for air to gawp up at the stars ("bright, triumphant metaphors for love") and then grounding us on a warm Earth where "the country doctor whistles across the meadow" and rocking us to sleep with the muffled piano ballad "As the Waters Cover the Sea". Cave has described each song on this record as an individual conversion – one track is titled as such – but you don't need to subscribe to any religious faith to buy into the transformative power of love that is hymned here. |
Helen Brown | Album critic |
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It's hard to be a god. At least, that's what Kaos would have you believe. The new eight-episode Netflix series (pronounced "chaos") seeks to bring the heavens crashing down to Earth, re-situating the gods of Greco-Roman mythology within a modern context. Along with Prime Video's Good Omens, the show could be said to fall into the fledgling microgenre of "mythological comedy". Not the most obvious cocktail for laughs, perhaps – but in the hands of Charlie Covell (The End of the F***ing World), who knows? |
Nick Hilton | Chief TV critic |
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The State Ballet of Georgia makes its London debut with a sturdily traditional Swan Lake. The large-scale production offers clean, confident dancing throughout the ranks, but could do more to reach the romantic intensity of Tchaikovsky's score. Founded in the 19th century, the State Ballet of Georgia stepped onto the international map in 2004, when it appointed beloved former Bolshoi Ballet star Nina Ananiashvili as its director. She brings her star name and energy to this company, drawing on both her Bolshoi roots and her sense of adventure. |
Zoe Anderson | Dance critic |
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When "bad" King John, retreating during the First Barons' War, reached The Wash, a tidal estuary in the Midlands, he was in disarray. The Crown Jewels were lost to the water during his crossing, and shortly after he died at Newark Castle in Nottinghamshire. John's wickedness may have been punished by Nottingham's topography, but his image was crystallised by local mythology. This is a land that repudiates authority, that challenges the rich and is laden with lost treasures – all themes that recur in the second series of James Graham's Sherwood, which returns to BBC One. |
Nick Hilton | Chief TV critic |
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Emma Willis: 'I'm finally in my f***-it phase' (ITV) |
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Over the past two decades, the immensely likable TV host has carved out a place as one of the most reliable, versatile presenters on the small screen. She tells Jacob Stolworthy about why The Voice has stood the test of time, what she really thinks of controversial reality contestants, and working with husband Matt Willis. |
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Emma Willis returns to 'The Voice UK', which is now in its 13th series (ITV) |
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Read an extract from our Saturday Interview below… |
For someone who regularly appears on live TV, Emma Willis has a commendable command of the F-word. "I'm not putting on a façade, so if you don't like me, that's quite f***ing personal," the Voice UK presenter says, speaking from her Hertfordshire home. There's been a lot of stuff over the years that – to borrow her parlance – has f***ed her off. There was superficial criticism in my 30s, like, 'What the f*** are you wearing' or 'Your hair looks s***." And there was the: 'Is she pregnant?' – no, I've just got three kids and I don't go to the gym every day. Then the heavier stuff comes, like, "I f***ing hate her,' and that can really start to affect you. And yet, Willis tells me all of this while wearing a big grin. "I'm just being me," she explains, mock incredulity inflecting her Birmingham accent. She's smiling because the 48-year-old has reached a liberating – and aptly titled – stage of her life. "I'm finally in my f***-it phase! I'd heard about it and wanted it so badly because I'm a chronic people pleaser, but I'm living it and it's wonderful." Read the full interview here |
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