David Nice
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![Pleasing but familiar: Imagine Dragons sixth album 'Loom'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Imagine%20dragons%20loom.jpg?itok=DipgP3A3)
Having propelled to stardom with their debut album Night Visions back in 2012, the Nevada pop-rock giants Imagine Dragons have reigned...
![Nardus Williams and Elizabeth Kenny in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, visible to a fortunate few](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/tj6WvCZ7.jpeg?itok=eZE5y4Ln)
Behind this poignant, simple-seeming hour of music for soprano and lute(s) lay a spider-web of connections between outsiders in the City: rebels,...
It's a bold move by Regent's Park Open Air Theatre to tackle Frances Hodgson Burnett's...
![Children’s Game #40: Chivichanas, La Habana, Cuba, 2023 by Francis Alÿs](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Frances%20Chivichanas.jpg?itok=i_Y4i1U4)
Belgian artist, Francis Alÿs has filled the Barbican Art...
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Oh this is sad. Up until this point Camilla Cabello has been a good pop...
![Lucie Shorthouse as DC Siobhan Clarke, with Richard Rankin in BBC One's 'Rebus'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Lucie%20MAIN.jpg?itok=l-pDnfcg)
Lucie Shorthouse is enjoying some high-profile TV action with her roles in Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts, about the adventures of an all-...
![A mountain of a man with charisma to match](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Cash%20Songwriter.jpg?itok=YtAemEgU)
Wow, this is a trip back in time. A visit from "The Man in Black" 21 years after he passed away, just a few months after his beloved wife, June...
![Taylor Swift, Wembley Stadium, Saturday 22nd June 2024](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/tay%20header.jpeg?itok=X6Ly0O0S)
Unless you were around when The Beatles toured America in the mid-1960s, it’s doubtful you've heard anything like this. In 40 years of extensive...
![All in a day's work: pickets attacked by mounted police, Orgreave, 18 June 1984](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Strike-Still.jpg?itok=evbzjcGu)
Forty years later, they have haggard faces, grey hair if any, and sorrowful expressions tinged with incredulity at the outrages perpetrated...