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All aboard the Africa Express!

4581 days ago
Guardian MusicA collaboration of African and western musicians, Africa Express is now headlining festivals and planning a huge train tour of the UK this year. Damon Albarn and Baaba Maal talk to Caspar Llewellyn Smith'It's always felt like a journey on an African... more info

Marina and the Diamonds: Electra Heart – review

4595 days ago
Guardian MusicMarina Diamandis has a new alter ego to go with her new musical directon. Unfortunately, it's a rather familiar oneLast August, Marina Diamandis gave a confusing interview to the website Popjustice. She explained her change of direction, from the s... more info

BCMG – review

4645 days ago
Guardian MusicWiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-AvonThis Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert was part of the Music Nation weekend, celebrating the Cultural Olympiad. It was effectively a musical mosaic: several short chamber works in turn made up of seve... more info

MoveTube: Mark Morris is a Dido to die for

4665 days ago
Guardian MusicDancer Mark Morris doesn't miss a beat in his 1989 production of Dido and Aeneas – combining masculinity, femininity and musicality in one astonishing performanceDido and Aeneas is one of the operas most often set to dance, but for me no version go... more info

Neuwirth portrait – review

4667 days ago
Guardian MusicQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonOlga Neuwirth was the subject of the second of the London Sinfonietta's portrait concerts this season. The 43-year-old Austrian is best known in Britain for Lost Highway, her music-theatre piece based on David Lynch's film... more info

Mary Mobbs obituary

4667 days ago
Guardian MusicMy wife, Mary Mobbs, who has died aged 86, was a multi-talented musician and artist. On retiring from her position at Bristol University in 1983, she embarked on a new career as a harpsichord soundboard painter. Within a year, her work was exhibited ... more info

Dido - Live @ Brixton Academy (2005)

4692 days ago
Totally Fuzzy The final Live Performance for this week comes from Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, better known as Dido. Live at Brixton Academy is a live album and DVD set by Dido, released in 2005. It was recorded over three nights in Augus... more info

Early Opera Company/Curnyn – review

4697 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonPurcell's Dido and Aeneas was long thought to have been composed for a girls' school in Chelsea. Recent scholarship, however, has suggested it may originally have been heard privately at the English court, and that its model was p... more info

Berlioz: Les Troyens – review

4707 days ago
Guardian MusicSimionato/Rankin/Del Monaco/La Scala Milan Chorus and Orchestra/Kubelík(Walhall, 3 CDs)Before Colin Davis put The Trojans on the map in the late 60s, the principal champion of Berlioz's neglected masterpiece was Rafael Kubelík. For many, his perfor... more info

Dido Had Secret Baby Over The Summer

4717 days ago
StarpulseSinger/songwriter Dido celebrated her 40th birthday on Christmas Day as a new mom - sources close to the star have revealed she gave birth to a baby boy this past summer. The singer and writer hus... more info

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