Xavier Voigt-Hill

What with the emerging aftermaths of foreign interference and hyper-targeted flaunting of spending regulations in democratic processes, countless examples of monopolistic behaviour with reckless disregard for user privacy, incomprehensible levels of…

Welcome to Wessex Scene’s live coverage of Elections Night Live. Follow this liveblog and our Twitter and Instagram accounts for updates on all the highs and lows of the evening, and to hear the candidates’ reactions as the results are announced. You…

The biggest night in the film industry is upon us, and after months of anticipation, all of our questions are going to be answered tonight: Roma or The Favourite? Rami Malek or Bradley Cooper? Glenn Close or Olivia Colman? What is the Academy going…

Across 25 years spent divided between frontlines and the foreign desk at The Sunday Times, Marie Colvin’s responsibility was frightening but simple: to make her readers see and feel the very worst situations that humanity’s gruesome penchant for…

Glamorgan 168/6 (David Lloyd 38*, Colin Ingram 35, Liam Dawson 2/25) beat Hampshire 105 (Andrew Salter 3/34, Ingram 2/15, Graham Wagg 2/17) by 63 runs. One could forgive a Hampshire supporter for hauling a cool bag of above-moderate expectations out…

Sometimes the best things take time. Think: the aging of a fine wine to enjoy on a breezy summer afternoon; your latest fix of This Week In Records after taking one off last week due to deadlines galore and a lack of chart-topping, show-stealing…

374 days ago, the idea of Khalid filling out Hammersmith’s prestigious Eventim Apollo – let alone doing so twice with ease at rather lofty prices – would have seemed more than a little far fetched. He was making his London debut seven physical miles…

Sofi Tukker (aka Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern) might not be a household name just yet, but you’ll certainly recognise their sound. Since the release of their Portuguese-language debut ‘Drinkee’ in 2015, vocalist Sophie Hawley-Weld and…

Queen Queen is unarguably one of the most successful and most iconic bands of all time. We do not only associate them with hordes of chart-topping hits and the unparalleled uniqueness of frontman Freddie Mercury, but they are identified with their…

As band introductions go, Superorganism’s inaugural missive last January has proved rather striking: “WE ARE SUPERORGANISM, WE ARE IN MAINE/LONDON, WE ARE DIY, WE ARE EIGHT AND MULTIPLYING, WE HAVE BECOME SENTIENT.” To figure out what powers an…

Coming five years and 10 platinum certifications since they first hit their native charts, the London debut of Sydney-based electronic duo Peking Duk feels long overdue. However, when speaking to The Edge on an open-top Original Tour bus on a crisp…

All the best electronic musicians come in pairs, and exquisite Derbyshire duo Shy Luv looks primed to be the UK’s next to break out. Now two EPs deep in February’s Shock Horror and November’s Lungs, both released via Black Butter, childhood friends…

Having gone from winning an Auckland school talent show and covering Pixie Lott in a radio session to selling 10 million copies of her debut single and being anointed by David Bowie as “the future of music” before she’d even had a moment spare to…

To anyone who had encountered her work in the 18 protracted months between amorous entrance ‘New Love’ and the release of her debut album, it wasn’t particularly hard to fathom Dua Lipa as a bonafide pop superstar just simmering gently before…

Wolf Alice may have found a name for themselves in all things “beautifully unconventional”, but a tiny gig in a Southsea pie and vinyl shop two days after the release of a critically acclaimed album is a whole other level of eccentricity. 60 lucky…

Things have changed since the last (and first) piece of this kind: we’re all here standing between Freshers’ Week and the equally fresh start of a brand new university year. Which means: a) everyone’s joining or coming back to their favourite…

The time has come (again) for my This Week In Records residency to come to an end – Meg Holland returns from her travels next Friday to tell you all about new albums from Foo Fighters, Galantis, Gucci Mane, Sløtface, and Rebecca Black. This week,…

Thanks to a rapid transition from years of accumulating obscurity to selling out a nationwide arena tour, bagging a BRIT nomination and topping the album chart for the first time since his 2000 debut with last autumn’s Following My Intuition, the…

Thanks to the return of The KLF in a grand multi-day spectacle, this past week has just been one of those where you can strike up a train station conversation with a taxidermist carrying a gun-wielding badger that he had rushed up to join him and his…