Entertainment

The Strictly factor: which new TV dance show has the right moves?

BBC1’s The Greatest Dancer and Channel 4’s Flirty Dancing are going toe to toe for audiences. But can they fill Strictly’s shoes? The new year starts with two new dance shows to fill the Strictly gap: BBC1’s talent contest The Greatest Dancer and, starting on Thursday, Channel 4’s new dating show Flirty Dancing,...

Fat White Family review – growing up disgracefully

The Lexington, LondonThe disreputable Brixton art rockers are touting their new album as a rebirth. It’s bound to be gory The trouble with setting your band up as unwholesome desperadoes, viscerally opposed to cosy arts careerism, is that it’s quite difficult to then have a career. Few bands in recent years...

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn – review

Snogs at discos and Saturday shopping ... the Everything But the Girl frontwoman looks back on humdrum days in the spiritual home of English pop You know Brookmans Park, don’t you? Of course you do – even if, like me, you’ve never been there. It’s a dormitory settlement in...