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  • Kettama raises both arms above a DJ deck on stage, red lights behind

    Reading and Leeds festival review – post-GCSE blowout shows how dominant dance music now is

  • Melissa Chan and Badiucao in Chippendale, NSW, Australia.

    Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

  • A woman in a costume with bright purple feathers

    Costumed carnival-goers in Notting Hill – in pictures

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  • Katie Norris, as Mother Succubus, sits regally while a man bows over her lap

    Katie Norris: Mother Succubus review – gothic comic enters a wickedly funny new era

  • two women in dresses performing on stage, one playing guitar and one singing into microphone

    Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat

    Performances from Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and Sarah McLachlan raise $20m for charity yet are marred by poor planning for heatwave
  • Moritz de Hadeln Book Presentation - 68th Berlin Film Festival, Germany - 21 Feb 2018Moritz de Hadeln Moritz de Hadeln, former director of the Berlin Film Festival, during the presentation of the book 'Moritz de Hadeln: Mister Filmfestival' at 68th Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale), in Berlin, Germany, 21 February 2018. Swiss filmmaker and photographer De Hadeln was Berlinale director from 1980 to 2001. His biography was written by Swiss author and head of the culture department of the Swiss newspaper 'Neue Zuericher Zeitung' (NZZ), Christian Jungen. The Berlinale runs from 15 to 25 February.

    Moritz de Hadeln obituary

    Director of the Berlin international film festival for two decades who went on to controversial stints at Venice and Montreal

    • J’ouvert celebrations at Notting Hill carnival – in pictures

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    • Mere Mortals review – a dazzling, maddening ballet for the AI age

    • The Bridge review – a funny, furious odyssey through occupation

  • Comedian Chris Cantrill laughs while speaking into a microphone on stage

    Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026

  • Amol Rajan Alternative MacTaggart lecture, Edinburgh TV Festival 27 August 2026

    Switching channels: will the Edinburgh TV festival’s magic survive the move south?

  • Charli XCX stands centre stage above seated performers during a dramatic black and white festival performanceHandout photo issued by Charli XCX management of Charli XCX performing on the the Grid stage during the Reading Festival, at Little John's Farm, Reading, Berkshire. Picture date: Friday August 28, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Henry Redcliffe/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Charli xcx, Reading festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it

  • A clown loses their head amid the chaos in Clown Show

    Roll up, tumble down! The show that imagines the US as a collapsing circus – in pictures

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  • Tom Towelling.

    Tom Towelling Teaches You to Knit review – quirky yarns and a pop quiz in maths

    Hopping from a PowerPoint on hairlines to songs about favourite motorways, Towelling’s set is fun but drops a stitch or two
  • Li Jin Hao, with dark wavy hair, wears a black shirt, looking to the side against a blue background

    Li Jin Hao: Falling from a Moon review – comedy’s Mr Nostalgia is now the man of the moment

    In his award-nominated show, the standup ruminates on myth and memory with some lovely observations

    • Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?

    • Fairytales pending: the fringe musicals hoping to live happily ever after

    • ‘You notice the quiet’: Lorde and Little Simz to star at festival run on green power

  • Ben Goldscheider, Jess Gillam and Sheku Kanneh-Mason sit with their instruments on the steps in front of the Royal Albert Hall

    ‘We’re going to have to groove!’ The cello, horn and sax prodigies jazzing up the Proms

  • A man and a woman wear goggles in the desert

    ‘One with the dust’: how I survived Burning Man when everything went wrong

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