
Kate Mossman
Kate Mossman is a senior writer at the New Statesman.

The man machine: Bruce Springsteen at Hyde Park
In his eighth decade, the singer has one eye on mortality – but for now the vigorous physical work of…
By Kate Mossman
Band on the rise: Paul McCartney’s candid Sixties photographs
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition of “forgotten” pictures will be revelatory for Beatles obsessives.
By Kate Mossman
The enduring cult of The Wicker Man
The 1970s film was deemed naff on its release 50 years ago. But thanks to VHS culture, it became…
By Kate Mossman
Nick Drake’s dark places
The songwriter is revered as a tortured genius – but Richard Morton Jack’s new biography shows that behind the…
By Kate Mossman
The joyful evolution of Janelle Monáe and Christine and the Queens
On their new albums, these genre-bending, postmodern shapehifting stars show new sides to themselves.
By Kate Mossman
Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour is a vast sci-fi spectacle designed for social media
This retrofuturist extravaganza, like all modern big gigs, is intended to look good on someone’s phone so they can…
By Kate Mossman
Why Liverpool bet big on Eurovision
Will Europe’s biggest, campest party revive the “outsider city”? By Kate Mossman

When Eurovision came to Liverpool
In a festival of geopolitics, money, culture and high camp, the proud outsider city spies a chance for renewal
By Kate Mossman