Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo is a life-long social justice and environmental campaigner hailing from South Africa. Born in Durban in 1965, Kumi's first taste of activism came at age 15 when he organised and took...
Les Amazones d’Afrique
The first all-female supergroup of West Africa, the collective Les Amazones d'Afrique, is an event for world music. Whether they are undisputed stars or well-kept secrets, the musicians involved...
Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett is the author of three books: The People Vs Tech (2018) about data and democracies (Winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize), Radicals (2017) about political outsiders and the...
Lucy Spraggan
Lucy Spraggan is in a good place and wants to share it with you. She is happy in love, life and music: three things that are reflected in the anthemic, upbeat, and infectious sound of her new...
J.P. Bimeni & The Black Belts
A royal refugee turned soul survivor with a remarkable story of resistance having fled Burundi's civil war after three attempts on his life, landing in Wales as a teenager. On his debut album Free...
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
In 2016, Frank Turner was reading a collection of poetry by Clive James when one line stopped him in his tracks. It was from a poem titled Leçons Des Ténèbres: “I should have been more kind. It...
Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley is the New Statesman's economic commentator and a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). She is the author of a forthcoming book on the...
Gurminder Bhambra
Gurminder K Bhambra is the author of the award-winning 'Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination' (Palgrave, 2007) She also wrote 'Connected Sociologies' (Bloomsbury,...
Gregory Alan Isakov
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now calling Colorado home, horticulturist-turned-musician Gregory Alan Isakov has cast an impressive presence on the indie-rock and folk worlds. With songs...
Extinction Rebellion
Rebel for Life. We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. The government has failed to protect us. To survive, it's going to take everything we've got. Extinction Rebellion is a...
Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling works at the University of Oxford as a professor in the School of Geography and the Environment. He was previously a professor for a decade at the University of Sheffield, and before...
Balaklava Blues
Balaklava Blues are folk-noir trench-fighters on the cultural front of Ukraine's battle for democracy and freedom. They mix thousand year-old polyphonic traditions with personal stories, sounds of...
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) presented by Silent Uproar
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) presented by Silent Uproar A hilarious cabaret musical about depression that explains, sings and throws glitter about how it's OK not to be...
Dave Hill
Dave is a comedian, writer, musician, and actor based in New York. He has appeared on HBO, Comedy Central (Inside Amy Schumer, @midnight), Cinemax, VH1, MTV and BBC-America, among others, and...
Brass Against
In a politically challenging era, it's our time to stand up against the machine. Brass Against's first and foremost goal is to make exceptional music. Yet we would be remiss to not also note...