Chris Broom

The cast of Madagascar The Musical are currently in Aberdeen, but from there they are coming the full length of the country, for the final stop of their year-long tour in Hampshire.

The public are being urged by police to hand ‘zombie-style’ knives and machetes in a month-long amnesty ahead of them being made illegal next month.

It’s hard to beat the description that the Urban Voodoo Machine have given themselves: “Bourbon-soaked gypsy blues bop’n’stroll.”

To call The Courettes a ‘garage-rock band’ is to do them a disservice.

Night Currents is a music-lover’s dream.

At the end of her set – her first ever gig – it’s revealed that opening act Jasmin Alloway only turned 15 three days earlier (those assembled sing her Happy Birthday...).

The Addams Family have been around for nearly 90 years now, having made their debut as cartoons in The New Yorker in 1938.

If you ventured down to the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth recently, you might have seen an intriguing exhibition – a window into the psyche of artist Mark Kellett.

When Julia Othmer and Carol Hodge met in 2018 while in separate acts supporting legendary Welsh rockers The Alarm, they quickly recognised kindred spirits.

It’s Halloween, so of course Skindred are going to lean into this.