Sigrid

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: There’s Always More That I Could Say by Sigrid (week beginning Saturday 8 November 2025)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

TRACKLIST: I’ll Always Be Your Girl; Jellyfish; Do It Again; Kiss The Sky; Two Years; Hush Baby, Hurry Slowly; Fort Knox; There’s Always More That I Could Say; Have You Heard This Song Before?; Eternal Sunshine

Sigrid muses on change, friendship, keeping it all in and experimentation on her 3rd and most musically adventurous album which entered the UK chart at 12 this week, her 1st not to make the top 5.

  • Read on for reasons including how Sigrid’s lyrics are at their most interesting, her performance is front and centre and the pop songs show more musical depth
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PREVIEW: 9 reasons why we can’t wait for October 2025 starring The Line Of Beauty

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  1. The Line Of Beauty at the Almeida

Jack Holden (Cruise) adapts the Alan Hollinghurst novel we’ve loved directed by Michael Grandage (Orlando, Garrick Theatre) in this story of Thatcher’s Britain at its most decadent and divisive in London 1983. Runs at the Almeida 21 October through 29 November 2025. Tickets Our review

  • Read on for reasons including the return of Gene, Nicola Walker and Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James live
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Perimenopop by Sophie Ellis Bextor (week beginning Tuesday 16 September 2025)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

Tracklist: Relentless Love; Vertigo; Taste; Stay On Me; Dolce Vita; Time; Glamorous; Freedom Of The Night; Layers; Diamond In The Dark; Heart Sing; Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone

Welcome to Ellis Bextor’s 8th studio album and 1st since Murder On The Dancefloor became an international hit for the 2nd time after its memorable inclusion in Emerald Fennell’s film Saltburn.

  • Read on for reasons including how Only Murders In The Building star Selena Gomez features
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SONG OF THE WEEK: Jellyfish by Sigrid (week beginning Saturday 19 July 2025)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

Jellyfish is the sound of schools breaking up for summer, lotion lathered on lazy sunbathers and the moon lighting the way home after a giddy evening.

  • Read on for reasons including how Jellyfish is ridiculous, oddly threatening and perhaps even occasionally suggesting of asexuality
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SONG OF THE MONTH: The Feeling by Kygo & Sigrid (August 2024)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2

Welcome to the debut collaboration of 2 of Norway’s biggest pop exports and it’s a dancefloor banger in keeping with Kygo’s previous work but a step away from what you might expect from Sigrid.

  • Read on for reasons including how now is a really interesting time for Sigrid fans as we await indications of what her eagerly-awaited 3rd album might sound like
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SONG OF THE WEEK: The Hype by Sigrid (week beginning 22 September 2023)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

There’s something extraordinarily self aware about the winner of the BBC Music’s Sound of 2018 title penning a tune asking: ‘Honestly, did I live up to the hype?’

  • Read on for reasons including why it’s live where Sigrid outshines any hype
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PREVIEW: Victorious Festival 2023 starring Jamiroquai, The Divine Comedy and Sigrid

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By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum

“Space Cowboy” has been orbiting the internet locally this week, a teaser for the Friday headliner at next year’s extended South Coast August Bank Holiday weekend metropolitan festival.

  • Read on for reasons including The Divine Comedy, Sigrid and The Coral
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GIG REVIEW: Sigrid at OVO Arena, Wembley

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2

WHEN?: Saturday 12 November, tour runs until 24 November 2022

SETLIST: It Gets Dark; Burning Bridges; Risk Of Getting Hurt; Sucker Punch; Mine Right Now; Thank Me Later; Dancer; Head On Fire; Dynamite; Bad Life; Mistake Like You; A Driver Saved My Life; Everybody Says They’re Fine; High Five; Plot Twist; Don’t Kill My Vibe; Strangers; Grow; Don’t Feel Like Crying; Mirror; High Note

‘I’m not even from the UK but you guys have made me so welcome,’ says 26-year-old Norwegian Sigrid Solbakk Raabe as she realises a childhood dream to play Wembley Arena.

  • Read on for reasons including how she loves touring so much and is so good live we can see her playing Wembley Stadium
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9 reasons why we can’t wait for November 2022 starring Best Of Enemies

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  1. West End debut of Zachary Quinto in Best Of Enemies

Quinto (The Boys In The Band) is probably best known for his role as Spock in the rebooted Star Trek franchise and here plays Gore Vidal in the Young Vic production of this James (Ink, Almeida) Graham play opposite David Harewood as William F Buckley about the 1968 ATV TV debates. Runs at the Noel Coward Theatre 14 November through 18 February 2023. Tickets

  • Read on for reasons including Florence and the Machine, The Crown and My Policeman
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9 best acts at Glastonbury Festival 2022 starring Pet Shop Boys

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: *****

This was the 1st Glastonbury Festival since 2019, the 1st 1 since it turned 50 years old in 2020 – and it didn’t disappoint.

  • Read on for reasons including Pet Shop Boys, Kalush Orchestra, Diana Ross and Pam Ayres
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