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Alan Pedder

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Covers:  Medicine, music, travel, arts.
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Alan Pedder’s Biography

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Hi, I'm Alan, music nerd, hat stand and science writer for hire.

I've spent most of my life moving from country to country, most recently living in Istanbul and London. These days I'm based on Öland, a long, narrow island in southeastern Sweden famous for its rare and ancient landscape of vast limestone flats. It still feels like a dream.

I fell into the ​world of publishing almost by accident in 2003, when as a recovering mathematician I was hired to an editorial role at a London medical publ…

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Father John Misty announces new album 'Mahashmashana' and 2025 tour

Father John Misty announces new album 'Mahashmashana' and 2025 tour

Hot on the heels of his 'Greatish Hits...' compilation, released just last month, 'Mahashmashana' arrives on …

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrested in New York on federal charges

Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrested in New York on federal charges

Further details on the exact nature of the charges are expected to emerge later today.

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Rhiannon Giddens shares Voter Registration Day cover of Peggy Seeger's "How I Long For Peace"

Rhiannon Giddens shares Voter Registration Day cover of Peggy Seeger's "How I Long For Peace"

Check your voter registration and make sure you're able to vote up and down the ballot come November.

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Bon Iver announces return with new track "SPEYSIDE", out Friday

Bon Iver announces return with new track "SPEYSIDE", out Friday

Justin Vernon has been playing "SPEYSIDE" live occasionally for the past few years, and the studio version fi…

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Father John Misty announces new album 'Mahashmashana' and 2025 tour

Father John Misty announces new album 'Mahashmashana' and 2025 tour

Hot on the heels of his 'Greatish Hits...' compilation, released just last month, 'Mahashmashana' arrives on …

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Astrid Sonne to release 'Great Doubt EDITS' with reworkings from Blood Orange, ML Buch, and more

Astrid Sonne to release 'Great Doubt EDITS' with reworkings from Blood Orange, ML Buch, and more

A companion piece to January's highly acclaimed 'Great Doubt', the reworked versions arrive this coming Frida…

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Keeley Forsyth's favourite songs | Interview

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By Alan Pedder Verified
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Elton John, Pet Shop Boys, and Rufus Wainwright have all graced the spectacular main theatre, white and gold with crimson seats and a deep blue oculus that mimics the night sky. Below ground meanwhile, in the ROH’s Linbury Theatre, things have been allowed to get a bit more edgy and odd, like a laboratory of sorts.
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Rhiannon Giddens' Personal Best

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By Alan Pedder Verified
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She describes herself instead as an artist of the 1960s, in reference to how many musicians of that time were creatively unconstrained, free to follow their curiosity wherever it might lead, even if their audiences didn’t always tag along.
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Finnish at heart, global in ambition, Flow looks to the future

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By Alan Pedder Verified
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Already months into rehearsals, the Gen Z soap star turned Finnish-language banger magnet had decided that the show was missing one last dash of spice. Having won a fight to hire twenty dancers for the set, the math, as they say, was still not quite mathing. “I was, like, of course I’m gonna have a solo part,” she says, laughing – and to her credit, despite the understandable nerves, she unequivocally smashed it.
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