“Relationships are like elastic bands,” my friend explained. “If you pull away, they’ll follow you, but if you get closer—honey. I love you, darling. I want you—they’ll pull away.” Treat them mean And ...

The tale of Michael Head, leader of some of the foremost groups in Scouse music mythology, is often told. The man behind Shack, The Pale Fountains and The Strands is often vaunted as the nation’s ...

While some may pine for the glory days of the '50s when jazz was more "pure, the reality is that, artistically speaking at least, the present is a great time for jazz. A more cosmopolitan affair than ...