Richard Purden

Industry pioneer Kit Kemp draws on bold and imaginative Colombian influences for the interiors, fabrics and eccentric antiques.

When Foy Vance walks on stage at the Usher Hall later this year, it will be during a tour marking the end of a creative journey.

I first saw The Charlatans at the Edinburgh Playhouse in June 1991. Almost thirty-five years later, the setting is the Corn Exchange and the distance between then and now feels a lot less.

How Garbage broke taboos surrounding mental health with this 1998 single

In advance of the American star's Dublin gig, he talks about his genre's evolution, what he learnt from Martin Scorsese, and why he agrees with Springsteen on everything Trump

The former The La’s guitarist and Cast frontman grew up watching Liverpool

David Bowie was a star who flourished behind pseudonyms and personas. It was Ziggy Stardust who launched him from one-hit-wonder status to household name in the summer of 1972. A performance of Starma...

From Greyfriars to the big screen: Peter Mullan leads Edinburgh director Sean Dunn’s darkly comic debut Like many Edinburgh stories, it began in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Not with ghosts on this occasion, but a man wearing a cape and some tourists gathered around the grave of Thomas Riddle, the eighteenth-century soldier whose name would later become […]

Growing up, Metallica felt like a subcultural band, something passed between metal fans. At school, a handful of us would gather in the music room, trading tapes and playing tracks such as Orion or For Whom the Bell Tolls. Some parents confiscated records or T-shirts, which only made them more desirable. In October 1992, a […]