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The 11 best Def Leppard songs
Music
Mark Grassick
/ 12 May 2023
Plus One
Why have a Top Ten when you can have one more? We count down the 11 best songs by Sheffield's finest purveyors of metal: Def Leppard
To the outsider, Sheffield’s Def Leppard are another British metal band with a spiky font and a surfeit of denim and hair. To everyone else...
Mark Grassick
/ 12 May 2023
Plus One
Why have a Top Ten when you can have one more? We count down the 11 best songs by Sheffield's finest purveyors of metal: Def Leppard
To the outsider, Sheffield’s Def Leppard are another British metal band with a spiky font and a surfeit of denim and hair. To everyone else...
Nine 90s films that would make great West End musicals
Theatre
Mark Grassick
/ 16 March 2023
List
As we prepare for both Mrs Doubtfire and Groundhog Day, we ponder which other 90s comedies might make great musicals
The 90s are back, in case you hadn’t heard. And even the West End hasn’t escaped the decade’s all-pervading influence, with musicals of Mrs Doubtfire and G...
Mark Grassick
/ 16 March 2023
List
As we prepare for both Mrs Doubtfire and Groundhog Day, we ponder which other 90s comedies might make great musicals
The 90s are back, in case you hadn’t heard. And even the West End hasn’t escaped the decade’s all-pervading influence, with musicals of Mrs Doubtfire and G...
Seven reasons why gigs make the best Valentine’s Day plans
Music
Mark Grassick
/ 13 February 2023
List
Don't give in to the pressure. Whatever you're doing this Valentine's Day, do it at a gig. Except that…
There probably was a time when we spent the first week of February searching for the perfect Blue Nose Bear card to send to our paramour. Maybe a cupcake or a Claddagh...
Mark Grassick
/ 13 February 2023
List
Don't give in to the pressure. Whatever you're doing this Valentine's Day, do it at a gig. Except that…
There probably was a time when we spent the first week of February searching for the perfect Blue Nose Bear card to send to our paramour. Maybe a cupcake or a Claddagh...
5 acts putting the weirdness back into sketch comedy
Comedy
Mark Grassick
/ 24 January 2023
List
Sketch comedy is back and better than ever with new blood such as Aunty Donna, Lazy Susan, and Foil, Arms & Hog
There was a moment in the 90s when sketch comedy ruled supreme. Born from the loins of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and The Goon Show,the lineage ran from Harr...
Mark Grassick
/ 24 January 2023
List
Sketch comedy is back and better than ever with new blood such as Aunty Donna, Lazy Susan, and Foil, Arms & Hog
There was a moment in the 90s when sketch comedy ruled supreme. Born from the loins of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and The Goon Show,the lineage ran from Harr...
Top Dog: The ten best episodes of Hey Duggee
Theatre
Mark Grassick
/ 19 January 2023
List
From jelly belly dancers to raving sticks, the ten episodes that made Duggee the nation's favourite dog
There are many wonderful things about Hey Duggee. The pleasingly geometric animation, the charming eccentricities, the unshowy normalisation of everything from same s...
Mark Grassick
/ 19 January 2023
List
From jelly belly dancers to raving sticks, the ten episodes that made Duggee the nation's favourite dog
There are many wonderful things about Hey Duggee. The pleasingly geometric animation, the charming eccentricities, the unshowy normalisation of everything from same s...
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