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John Grant

June 2024

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    John Grant: The Art of the Lie review – grooving funk odyssey

    The singer-songwriter brings in earthy bass lines and sensuous drum patterns on his playful, soulful sixth album

July 2023

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    ‘She makes me feel seen’: John Grant on the greatness of Patsy Cline – and her five finest songs

    As he prepares a concert of Cline’s music, the singer-songwriter delves into the tragic life and melancholy musicianship of an American great

February 2023

  • John Grant at the piano at St James’s Church, London.

    John Grant review – uncanny beauty with jagged edges

    Performing a stripped-back show as part of the Piccadilly piano festival, the singer-songwriter gave a forceful performance of some his most wrenching material – but there was laughter in the dark

August 2021

  • Snapped Ankles, Ghetts and Little Simz.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    From Ghetts to Genesis, Nick Cave to Arlo Parks: autumn 2021’s essential music

    From Fontaines DC to the Valkyrie, a techno Halloween to Little Simz, this is the unmissable music of the next few months

July 2021

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    John Grant: Boy from Michigan review – a bittersweet new direction

  • Musicians and friends Sir Elton John and John Grant at the former’s home in Windsor.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

June 2021

  • Sir Elton John and John Grant at Elton’s home in Windsor.

    Elton John and John Grant: ‘We help each other. We are both complicated people’

    The pop legend and the US indie star have long been friends and fans of each other’s music. With Grant staying chez Elton and about to release a new album, the pair sat down to discuss politics, homophobia – and why Elton should never write lyrics

May 2020

  • Elton John Farewell Yellow Brick Road

    Don’t stand so close: how live music has changed its tune in lockdown

    From drive-in concerts to livestreaming on Fortnite, the industry has had to adapt creatively to the current restrictions

February 2019

  • John Grant on Iceland’s Strandir coast.

    This much I know
    John Grant: ‘Music has been a healing balm for me’

    The musician, 50, on his anger problem, coming out, and why he’s glad he contracted HIV

October 2018

  • Lyrics skip from yeast infections to the Islamic State … John Grant’s Love Is Magic.

    John Grant: Love Is Magic review – electro-amped tragedy and eyebrow-waggling

    Grant is never less than erudite, but there’s an occasional touch of teen angst on his fourth solo album

August 2018

  • John Grant, whose new album is called Love Is Magic.

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    John Grant: 'I'm sensitive. I spent a lot of time trying to destroy that'

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    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Big noise: the essential pop, jazz and folk music of autumn 2018

March 2018

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    Creep Show: Mr Dynamite review – ominous, inventive and funny

  • Crumpled puz-quizzer ... Guy Garvey with Elbow at the SSE Hydro, Glasgow.

    Elbow review – Guy Garvey's charisma melts Beast from the East

July 2017

  • Jarvis Cocker, with the Heritage Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley.

    The Songs of Scott Walker review – Jarvis Cocker and friends untwist easy listening's dark master

    The Proms were treated to starry covers of Scott Walker’s 1960s classics, but they didn’t always invoke the songwriter’s own spirit of invention

May 2017

  • A 90-minute gale of song … John Grant.

    ​John Grant’s North Atlantic Flux review – rollercoaster ride through bold music

    Grant’s festival of everything from humour to electronic noise fed into his own heartbreakingly powerful headline act to make an unforgettable four-dayer for the City of Culture

April 2017

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    The ten best things to do this week
    The 10 best things to do this week: Reginald D Hunter and Cheltenham jazz festival

  • Sigur Rós and the LA Phil

    Reykjavik calling: how Sigur Rós started a musical revolution in Iceland

July 2016

  • The Brownlee Brothers

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: June 2016

    Olympians the Brownlee brothers, author Annie Proulx, actor Jane Horrocks and musician John Grant all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in June

June 2016

  • Adele at Glastonbury on Saturday night

    Glastonbury 2016 verdict: Muse, Adele, Coldplay and more

    Alexis Petridis watched as Worthy Farm’s vast audiences were ​s​wept away by ​preposterous ​pomp, moments of magic and real emotion​al connection
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