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Million-pound question: why save Secret Cinema while real cinemas are in ruins? | Marc Burrows
As affordable arts venues fight to survive, the exorbitant events company got a huge bailout. And film fans will pay the price
Marc Burrows
14, Oct, 2020 @3:06 PM
Packing Christmas cards knocked the pseudo-intellectual snob out of me | Marc Burrows
A factory job taught me that my Leicestershire village was nothing to sneer at, says writer, musician and standup comic Marc Burrows
Marc Burrows
16, Aug, 2019 @10:50 AM
One to watch: Puppy
This London trio are that rare thing: a homegrown metal band with mainstream appeal
Marc Burrows
15, Dec, 2018 @2:00 PM
Christmas album of 2017? It's beginning to look a lot like Elvis
With barely a jingle, Sia keeps it joyfully real, while Cheap Trick have a blast, but this year it’s the King in all his crooning glory
Marc Burrows
24, Dec, 2017 @7:00 AM
One to watch: Gavin Osborn & the Comment Section
The comic musician’s new album of grumpy bewilderment at the world must be one of this year’s most relatable releases
Marc Burrows
10, Sep, 2017 @8:30 AM
A moment that changed me: the power chord that ended my childhood sadness | Marc Burrows
I spent my breaks alone in the school library to avoid the bullies. Then a blast of distorted guitar in a bad Guns N’ Roses song showed me who I wanted to be
Marc Burrows
02, Jun, 2017 @7:00 AM
They called it 'the worst job in the world' – my life as a Guardian moderator
Comments on the website can exceed 70,000 a day. Yes, there are trolls, but there is also wit, wisdom and a community worth fighting for, says a former moderator
Marc Burrows
18, Apr, 2016 @6:00 AM
One to watch: The Spook School
Nye Todd leads the Scottish quartet on a mission to teach the joys of transgender freedom
Marc Burrows
13, Mar, 2016 @8:00 AM
The long, hard road to rock’n’roll success: ‘We’re essentially skint’
Marc Burrows talks to fellow musicians about the hard graft of life on the road – and how the thrill of performing sustains them
Marc Burrows
30, Jan, 2016 @9:00 PM
For the Potter generation, Alan Rickman’s death marks the end of childhood | Marc Burrows
Harry Potter is the everyman figure, the eyes of the audience. But it’s Rickman’s pitch-perfect Professor Snape who is the beating heart of the story
Marc Burrows
15, Jan, 2016 @6:01 PM
Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 20 years on
Billy Corgan took a risk by demanding his band’s third record be a double-album, but it went on to become the last great alternative-rock record of the 90s
Marc Burrows
29, Oct, 2015 @4:48 PM
Cameron's quips: were the PM's punchlines funny?
David Cameron’s Conservative conference speech was laced with jokes and innuendo, but how would his gags have gone down in a comedy show?
Rowena Mason and Marc Burrows
07, Oct, 2015 @3:54 PM
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