Culture vultures rejoice! Theatres, cinemas, pop arenas, concert halls and galleries reopen on Monday and what a feast of entertainment they ve got in store.
From Dua Lipa s tour, Emma Stone s deliciously evil Cruella de Vil on the big screen and Andrew Lloyd Webber s new Cinderella, to a David Hockney exhibition and Ricky Gervais s comedy show, there is something for everyone.
Here the Mail s critics round up the best shows around the country.
Film
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Beatrix Potter purists may not have loved the first Peter Rabbit in 2018, but it struck 24-carrot gold at the box office.
And hit children s films always get sequels these days. This one again has a voice cast led by James Corden and Margot Robbie, with Rose Byrne and Domhnall Gleeson reprising their live-action roles. From May 17.
Rag’n’Bone Man is on course for his second UK Number 1 album with new album Life By Misadventure.
Rag’n’Bone Man is outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined on today’s Official Chart Update (May 10) and has sold just shy of 30,000 units over the weekend.
Real name Rory Graham, Rag’n’Bone Man’s debut album Human reached the top of the Official Albums Chart in February 2017, claiming the fastest-selling debut album of the 2010s decade by a male solo artist. That album has returned to the Top 40 midweek, impacting at 29.
Rag’n’Bone is also heading for his fourth UK Top 20 single this week as his P!nk collaboration Anywhere Away From Here is on track to become this week’s highest climber. The two will perform the track at the BRIT Awards tomorrow.
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Rag’n’Bone Man is on course for his second UK Number 1 album with new album Life By Misadventure.
The Blues-rock singer songwriter is outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined on today’s Official Chart Update (May 10) and has sold just shy of 30,000 units over the weekend.
Real name Rory Graham, Rag’n’Bone Man’s debut album Human reached the top of the Official Albums Chart in February 2017, claiming the fastest-selling debut album of the 2010s decade by a male solo artist. That album has returned to the Top 40 midweek, impacting at 29.
Rag’n’Bone is also heading for his fourth UK Top 20 single this week as his P!nk collaboration Anywhere Away From Here is on track to become this week’s highest climber. The two will perform the track at the BRIT Awards tomorrow.
The Week in Light & Sound
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
On Trial - A pilot concert in Liverpool on Sunday saw 5,000 people legally crammed into a small space for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The mini-festival, headlined by Blossoms, in Liverpool s Sefton Park was one of the government s official trial events to research how large gatherings can safely take place again. All ticket holders had to take a supervised lateral flow test at one of four testing centres in the city the day before and were only allowed in if the test was negative. They were also strongly encouraged to take more sensitive PCR tests on the day of the show and to do so again five days later, on Friday. That will be crucial to working out whether there was any spread of the virus. It s all with the aim of working out how summer music festivals can go ahead after 21 June, when stage four of the government reopening roadmap will, in theory, see the end of restrictions on social contact.
Surrounded By Time is Jonesâ fourth leader in the U.K. and his first since 1999âs
Reload. He also becomes the first Welsh soloist to top the national chart in nearly a decade, since Marina and The Diamondsâ
Electra Heart, in 2012.
In a slow week for new releases, the next highest debut is an album familiar to many, John Lennonâs 1971 solo debut LP,
Plastic Ono Band (Apple Corps). The classic set enjoys a reissue rollout in various computations, blasting it to No. 11 on the weekly chart.
Further down the list, a campaign for The Whoâs third studio album