UK charity records original music by people living with dementia
Project aims to unlock memories and sensations for participants while creating nine-track CD, recorded at Glyndebourne
Diaries, artworks and more to be auctioned from Marianne Faithfull’s personal belongings
Late singer’s personal effects up for sale including a trunk gifted to her by Carrie Fisher, and artworks by Anita Pallenberg and Marlene Dumas
Joy Crookes says UK and Ireland in ‘dark time’ amid rise of far-right politics
Musician’s Brixton and Dublin performances go viral after she performs Sinéad O’Connor’s anti-racism anthem Black Boys on Mopeds
Ticket touts’ worst nightmare has finally come true in the UK
Government has officially announced ban on reselling for profit, described by minister as ‘no-brainer’
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
Musicians losing out on millions due to wrongly allocated UK royalties, new research finds
Regarding music played in UK nightclubs, more than £5.7m each year is allegedly allocated by performing rights societies to the wrong artists
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket
Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution
British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites
Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay among dozens of artists calling for cap on resale prices to stop exploitation of fans
British music industry adds record £8bn to UK economy, according to UK Music
Taylor Swift’s Eras tour among the big events driving spending, as British artists perform well overseas and job numbers rise
‘Young audiences are less scared of it’: why London jazz clubs are expanding and thriving against the odds
As the Jazz Cafe and Ronnie Scott’s expand, and Blue Note eyes its arrival, proprietors say there’s an energy in the scene – but financial pressures remain
‘Huge step in the right direction’: arts leaders hail move to boost creative subjects in England’s schools
Cultural figures hope proposed shake-up of curriculum can reverse years of ‘madness’ in which arts were devalued
The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in impressively unsentimental Alan Bennett fable
Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour
Ed Sheeran takes partial credit for move to overhaul music teaching in England
Singer-songwriter says curriculum changes reflect points raised in open letter to PM organised by his foundation
Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires
The singer is giving away millions – but the parameters for criticising the super-rich are very narrow, and hardly anyone qualifies, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams