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| | | Lost shots of 90s rave culture by Terence Donovan to go on show | | by Donna Ferguson Jan 1, 2022 | | Photographer best known for capturing ‘swinging London’ photographed revellers on a techno music night in Birmingham in never-seen images Newly discovered photographs of 1990s rave culture taken by the fashion photographer Terence Donovan shortly before he died are to go on public display for the first time. The intimate shots of revellers lost in the sounds of the Que Club in Birmingham, a music venue graced by everyone from David Bowie and Blur to Daft Punk and Run-DMC, are thought to be some of the last photographs Donovan took. Continue reading... | | | | | On my radar: Moses Sumney's cultural highlights | | by Kathryn Bromwich Jan 1, 2022 | | The singer-songwriter on Balenciaga’s visions, the mountains of North Carolina, and the haunting power of Eve’s Bayou Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, 29, grew up between Ghana and California and studied creative writing and poetry at UCLA. His piercing falsetto and genre-defying music have brought him critical acclaim, starting with his self-recorded 2014 EP Mid-City Island, followed in 2017 by his debut album, Aromanticism, and the 2020 double album Græ. Sumney has collaborated with musicians including Bon Iver and James Blake and toured with Solange and Sufjan Stevens. His latest project is Blackalachia, a self-directed concert film created in association with WePresent, shot over two days in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, where he lives. Continue reading... | | | | | Jamie Dornan's right, comfort TV is causing our attention spans to desert us | Rebecca Nicholson | | by Rebecca Nicholson Jan 1, 2022 | | Instant streaming gratification will inevitably lead to bad TV – but first, pass the remote, it’s time for another Girls5eva I like to imagine Jamie Dornan – you might anticipate a full stop there, but do carry on – having the same issues as the rest of us over Christmas, craving a second to switch off and so switching the television on. Perhaps he, too, spent time staring at a hectic page on a streaming service, wondering for so long what to watch that scrolling became the activity and then it was time for bed, the evening having been filled by an endless click of the down button, interrupted only by arguments about whether The Wolf of Wall Street or Zero Dark Thirty is more festive or should we do a Girls5eva or three instead? (The answer is always yes.) Continue reading... | | | | | |
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