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My condolences to the children of Iceland. While many Christmas celebrations around the world are full of tidings of comfort, joy, and rampant consumerism, for young Icelanders it’s a time of terror, where you’re lucky to escape with your life… or a potato. At least, that seems to be the case according to this fascinatingly frightening folklore.Let’s begin with Grýla, a giant part-troll, part-animal creature who lives in the Dimmuburgir mountains and comes down at Christmas to look for naughty children to abduct. When she…

With Kang the Conqueror’s debut in the MCU set to happen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, fans are already spinning theories over what other incarnations of Marvel’s nigh-immortal time-traveling arch-villain we may see pop up in the forthcoming movie. But even if we don’t meet one of Kang’s past or future aspects in the film there is a chance that we could see one incarnation the very same year when Agatha: Coven of Chaos debuts on Disney Plus. This is Iron Lad pic.twitter.com/pa4lh0smoR— Luca | 🏳️‍🌈…

As Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness came to exemplify Britpop, Graham Coxon could usually be found scowling at the back of the band’s group shots. Coxon’s MO as their guitarist often involved lobbing “anti-solos” into the machinery, the band’s sceptical counterweight.The two had met at school in Colchester, Essex, decamping to art college in London where they found themselves at the centre of two creative movements: the Goldsmiths’ art set that would become the YBAs, and the bands who…

Fifty years down the line, what does Roxy Music mean to you? JungtheforemanA lot. Roxy Music were the first 10 years of my career, so it’s a huge part of my life. Some of my best work was done on those albums and I was lucky to be part of such a unique group. Andy Mackay had a classical background, Brian Eno electronic music, Phil Manzanera a guitarist with Latin American roots, Paul Thompson a great drummer, and Graham Simpson was a jazz aficionado. They all brought something special and there was a great sense of…

Peter Doherty had, for a period in the mid 00s, the kind of fame that made him recognisable even in silhouette. Like his friend Amy Winehouse, he was a fixture on tabloid front pages, whether in disrepair or ducking out of a courtroom. Doherty had gone from a cultish figure as co-frontman (with Carl Barât) of the Libertines – a band with a devoted following and tantalising capacity for implosion – to a threat to the nation’s impressionable youth and himself. His drive to self-destruction was served up as cartoonish…