In the 1993 children's movie Hocus Pocus, Bette Midler plays one of three witches who's just been woken from a hundreds-of-years sleep. She and her sisters have returned to torment the people of Salem, Massachusetts. (This is one of those movies that envisions the Salem witch trials as something that involved real witches, not as…

Debut album 'Primrose Path' is out nowDream StateDream State‘s CJ Gilpin has spoken of how her journey from addiction and self-hate helped to inform their debut album ‘Primrose Path’. The band found themselves going viral with the single ‘White Lies’ in 2017, and were soon signed to UNFD (the home of Architects...

Author and mental health writer Lucy Nichol tells us: "Mental illness does not discriminate" Two friends talkingThere’s been tonnes in the media about mental health stigma. The Time To Change campaign is fighting it, mental health warriors are out in full force, Denise Welch is calling out Piers Morgan, Harry, Wills and Kate gave the Hea...

The incendiary former Cream drummer, renowned for his epochal talent behind the kit – as well has his fiery personality – has died at the age of 80 English bassist and singer Paul Gurvitz (left) and drummer Ginger Baker, of rock group the Baker Gurvitz Army, in a studio, August 1974. Last year, Ginger Baker‘s son, Kofi, a percussio...

"A truly superb drummer whose music and influence shall shine for infinity"Ginger Baker, Cream. Although he rose to fame with blues-rockers Cream, Ginger Baker thought of himself more as a jazz drummer. One of the first sticksmen to use two bass drums, he later diversified into Afrobeat and even classical styles. Finest hour: 'Toad' (1968). Pic:...