Little Simz
Mercury prize: Sam Fender, Harry Styles and Self Esteem lead pack of first-time nominees
Women including Little Simz and Jessie Buckley dominate this year’s cohort for the best British album of the year, which falters on recent diversity gains
Laura Snapes
26, Jul, 2022 @10:15 AM
We Are Lady Parts leads South Bank Sky Arts award winners
Sitcom about Muslim female punk band wins best comedy as Opera North, Little Simz and Monica Ali also triumph
Mark Brown
10, Jul, 2022 @5:00 PM
Wireless festival 2022: weekend one review – Playboi Carti stomps on the competition
Across three days of raging rap, it’s Little Simz, Rico Nasty and Tyler, the Creator who also stand out with their imagination and mic technique
Thomas Hobbs
04, Jul, 2022 @12:38 PM
Little Simz cancels US tour citing financial unviability as an indie artist
The UK rapper and Top Boy actor said the month-long tour would leave her ‘in a huge deficit’, highlighting the difficulties many musicians face to make a livelihood
Laura Snapes
20, Apr, 2022 @12:26 PM
Top Boy review – this brilliant crime drama always leaves you guessing
Netflix’s show about London drug gangs is back, adding instantly engaging new characters to an incredibly impressive cast. It’s at its peak – and not moving from that spot
Ellen E Jones
18, Mar, 2022 @6:00 AM
Sex stories, purgatory and Adele’s tears: the album skit is back
Keen to re-establish the album in the age of the playlist, artists are peppering their work with voice notes and sketches – to profound and annoying ends
Tara Joshi
14, Feb, 2022 @12:00 PM
Little Simz’s long path from council estate to Brit awards podium
Hard work and creative friends from local youth club drove genre-defying rapper to mainstream recognition
Rachel Aroesti
11, Feb, 2022 @2:12 PM
Worthy winners aside, the Brits is struggling to keep pace with modern pop
TikTok voting and gaming stars haven’t altered the music awards’ predictable roster of chart-toppers
Alexis Petridis
09, Feb, 2022 @6:00 AM
Brit awards 2022: every performance reviewed, from Adele to Dave and Little Simz
From Ed Sheeran’s screamo turn with Bring Me the Horizon to Liam Gallagher arriving by helicopter, we rate all of this year’s live performances
Laura Snapes
08, Feb, 2022 @11:07 PM
Brit awards 2022 – as it happened
Adele, Dave, Ed Sheeran, Little Simz, Sam Fender, Liam Gallagher and more performed at the 42nd annual pop bash
Elle Hunt and Laura Snapes
08, Feb, 2022 @10:43 PM
Adele sweeps gender-neutral Brit awards dominated by women
In the first Brits ceremony to do away with gendered categories, women or female-fronted acts won 10 out of 15 overall awards
Laura Snapes
08, Feb, 2022 @10:19 PM
Brit awards 2022: Inflo is first non-white winner of producer of the year
Sault co-founder, who has worked with Adele and Little Simz, thanks ‘all the Black producers before me – I am you’
Safi Bugel
28, Jan, 2022 @12:01 AM
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