Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine tour review: pop illusion at its most effective – for good and bad

On her last live dates before she steps back from the public eye, Grande holds her own – but it’s also impossible to avoid feeling concerned for her wellbeing

Rock stars Ash look back: ‘Mark broke his feet jumping off a balcony – for the rest of the tour he self-medicated with gin and buckets of ice’

The Northern Irish band on jamming together at school, booze and breakdowns, and being a weirdly functional family

LSO/LSO Chorus/BBC Symphony Chorus/Henric/Pappano review – grand forces capture the viscerality and desperation of Berlioz’s Requiem

A huge choir, an expanded orchestra, four brass bands and a warehouse-full of percussion achieved surround-sound magnificence

‘I thought – if I die, I’ve had a good innings’: producer James Ford on life, death and making an album from his hospital bed

The Arctic Monkeys, Pet Shop Boys and Pulp collaborator was Britain’s most in-demand producer when leukaemia struck. ‘I realised life is exceptionally fragile,’ he says

‘Have I tried having sex to my own music? God, no!’: Natalie Imbruglia’s honest playlist

The singer was wooed with some knocked-off Joni Mitchell and might even be persuaded to sing Torn at karaoke. But what fan comment winds her up the most?

Not for Glory review – folk dance and bagpipes, but not as we know them

Jack Anderson and Charlotte Mclean began as champions of classic Irish and Highland steps. Here, with piper Malin Lewis, they give them a new form

The Singer review – come on feel the noise with KT Tunstall’s glowing gig theatre

In Cora Bissett’s highly enjoyable and accessible production, a deaf man reintroduces a busker to the joy of music

Thousands of Bonnie Tyler fans gather to pay respects as coffin brought home

Fans line streets singing Total Eclipse of the Heart ahead of Welsh singer’s Swansea funeral

Thirty years after Tupac Shakur’s killing, can a murder trial offer justice?

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis faces trial on Monday over rap star’s death that marked notorious chapter in hip-hop’s history

Charlene Kaye: Diversity Shredder review – killer riffs slay toxic music industry

This is a fun and feverish journey, with well-crafted comedy and screaming guitar, through the star’s career so far

The Guide #256: Norovirus, giant puddles, sit-ins and no beer – how can festivals survive the worst?

​As promoters like James Scarlett prove​,​ the UK’s ​f​estival circuit continues to weather each disaster with remarkable grit

From Tony to Jungle: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Dominic Sessa plays Anthony Bourdain in a fun biopic, and the ever-danceable UK funksters are back with a sun-dappled new album

From My Brilliant Career to Chelsea Wolfe: the week in rave reviews

A young woman battles social strictures in 1890s Australia in a charming period drama series, while the sonic experimentalist drops the drone metal for goth rock. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

Madonna will not be playing Glastonbury in 2027, Emily Eavis says

Festival organiser says she has booked next year’s headliners but would not say if Taylor Swift is among them

Family affair: how pop-star siblings Audrey Hobert and Malcolm Todd stormed the charts in parallel

Following in the footsteps of Michael and Janet Jackson, and Kylie and Dannii Minogue, the Hobert siblings have simultaneously struck pop gold – with no rivalry