Hancock

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviewsSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Dame Sheila Hancock has said she no longer cares about being cancelled for saying something “outrageous” because of her age. The 90-year-old British actor, who was made a DBE in 2021, told the BBC’s Amol Rajan that she’s not afraid to speak her mind against the backdrop of cancel culture because “I’m shortly going to be cancelled by death anyway”. “If I say something outrageous and I’m…

Jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Dianne Reeves accompanied by the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA Ensemble, will be visiting New Delhi and Mumbai from January 14-25. Their performances and master classes with students will be dedicated to celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. The highlight of their visit will be a special concert in New Delhi on January 15, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the US Embassy in India said in a press release. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, observed annually…

Erykah Badu Image Credit: Elyse Jankowski/Billboard Erykah Badu plays her Saturday night headlining set at the Orpheum Theatre on November 11th. Fresh off her Unfollow Me arena Tour this summer, the 2,000-cap downtown venue is among the most intimate venues she’s played this year. For nearly two hours, Badu crooned and belted her way through songs including “20 Feet Tall,” “To Each Their Own,” and “Window Seat.” She played “Green Eyes” in her brief encore before finishing with a frenetic,…

I don’t know what possessed me to do I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! I was glued to the recent South African series, but I kept thinking to myself: bloody hell, it’s a show you watch from the comfort of your own home, not one you actually sign up for. I was rumoured to have been the highest-paid contestant ever, but if I’d known what I’d go through I’d have charged double.Cooking should be a pleasure, not a stress. I’ve turned down appearing on The Great British Bake Off a few times in the past, because I’d go mad.…

The year’s most disappointing Christmas gift for thousands of relatives has landed: Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries.Despite the former health secretary and marsupial-anus-chomper not having kept a diary (the whole thing was devised afterwards), Hancock was in the running to pocket £100,000 for what this paper said goes down “like a plate of sheep’s unmentionables”, and what the Telegraph has judged “Partridge-esque”.So, in the spirit of goodwill, here are a few alternative UK political diaries that are more worthy of your…

If you want to get under the skin of politics, nothing beats a good diary.And what distinguishes the best – from Alan Clark and Tony Benn to Alastair Campbell and more recently Sasha Swire – is the willingness to be vulnerable. A diarist’s job is to capture how it felt in the heat of the moment, however mortifying it might be to read in retrospect. Everything else is just publicity. Or in the case of Matt Hancock, who never actually kept a diary but hasn’t let that stop him publishing one, a book concocted after the event…

The Neolithic archaeological site Göbekli-Tepe in Turkey is one of the locations Hancock visits in "Ancient Apocalypse." Credit: Teomancimit, CC BY-SA Netflix's enormously popular new show, "Ancient Apocalypse," is an all out attack on archaeologists. As an archaeologist committed to public engagement who strongly believes in the relevance of studying ancient people, I feel a full-throated defense is necessary.…

Twitter users whiplashed by all the changes there since Elon Musk bought it have been experimenting with other sites in recent days. Mastodon is a popular choice. Some prefer Discord or Tribel.Others have landed on something a little more niche—the Matt Hancock app.…

Domi and JD Beck might be the first musicians to ever shitpost their way into the jazz pantheon. At 22 and 19, respectively, they’re both undeniable prodigies – the former a keyboardist who plays with the same speed, intensity and militant precision that most people her age use to text, the latter a drummer who could probably keep perfect time with the ECG of a cardiac arrest.They also have more in common with your average meme account admins than most artists signed to longstanding jazz label Blue Note: they refer to…

When the pandemic took the now 82-year-old jazz legend Herbie Hancock off the road, his half-century passion for Nichiren Buddhism came to the rescue. “I could have been miserable over what I was missing out on,” he says, from his Los Angeles home, “but for the first time in 50 years, I ate dinner with my own wife every night, and slept next to her in my own bed. It was a blessing. Music is what I do, but is not what I am.” With his Glastonbury slot on the horizon – making him one of the oldest ever to grace the Pyramid…