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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Kelela,Pop and rock,Electronic music,Culture,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MMore than most musicians in a typical promotional cycle, Kelela has been popping up on my social feeds in increasingly surreal sets. In one clip, she blows kisses to a huge crowd of onlookers in the streets of SoHo, New York; Another saw her posing for fans against a fog-filled background somewhere between the video game South Central and the survival game Silent Hill. In the Clue 1 video, the singer walks down a hallway with windswept silver hair,…

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Musicals,Theatre,Stage,Culture,Royal Exchange,Alison Bechdel 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe "fun" in the title is shorthand for "funeral," a reference to the company that handles the business inherited by Alison Bechdel's father. But there's some fun, too, in this heartfelt musical adaptation of the cartoonist's graphic memoir. First shown in the UK in 2018 and now brought to life by director Sarah Frankcom in a seamless theatrical production, it brings a light touch to an emotional story.The graphic novel, published in 2006, describes the author's sexual awakening—she kisses a…

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Romance books,Dating,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThis is a scene in Annie Lord's novel that will be instantly familiar to any young person who has spent time in a bar or nightclub recently. Daisy and Maya, two best friends in their mid-twenties, lament the seedy state of the dating market.“It's just bullshit,” Daisy says. “Every time we go out, there's one respectable single man, and then about 40 gorgeous women with master's degrees and shaggy haircuts, and what's the point of trying.”“This fits perfectly with my experience...dating…

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Garsington Opera,The Philharmonia Orchestra,Music,Culture,Classical music,Gerald Barry 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAnyone who has ever seen an opera will recognize the long rack of white dinner plates, stacked and set out to see what you know. Anyone familiar with Oscar Wilde's play will recognize its lines, which composer Gerald Barry turned into a kind of staccato mash-up of speech and song. But in Jack Furness's new production of Barrie's The Importance of Being Earnest at Garsington Opera, familiarity is otherwise avoided.Barry has already transformed Wilde's "frivolous comedies for…

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Cribs 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The first song I fell in love withYou're just one of the flying pegs - at least according to my mother [my twin brother and bandmate] Ryan and I were singing along to the Christmas song Top of the Pops with her. We now use it as our live song and it makes my mom very emotional.First song I bought"Somewhere in My Heart" was written by Aztec Camera, from Boots in Wakefield in 1988, after hearing it at a disco…