Jonathan Kanengoni

Music

London festivals 2023: Your guide to the capital’s best music events

From Junction 2 to All Points East, there’s plenty of festivals to keep you busy in the capital

19 Feb 2025
World

Zelensky thanks British journalists for ‘vital support’ in war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a pre-recorded message to the Society of Editors Media Freedom Conference on Wednesday

15 Mar 2023
TV

Love Island: Is the nation falling out of love with ITV’s hit series?

This years Winter Love Island has failed to reach the same heights as its predecessors

14 Mar 2023
Music

British rapper ArrDee: ‘I want to make songs that live on’

The artist, who was doing rap battles at 13, broke out on the No 1 hit Body and his star rose further with follow-up tracks Oliver Twist and Flowers

11 Mar 2023
Music

Miley Cyrus: What we’ve learnt from her Endless Summer Vacation return

There’s a lot to take in from Miley Cyrus’ new album

10 Mar 2023
Music

Fumez the Engineer: On Plugged In, drill and working with Ed Sheeran

Fumez The Engineer puts rising talent at the heart of his YouTube series

9 Mar 2023
Music

Miguel on his viral TikTok track Sure Thing and new music coming soon

The singer was stunned that the twelve year old song had hit the UK charts

6 Mar 2023
Lifestyle

Inside the capital’s terrifying e-bike crime epidemic

Street robberies went up 19 per cent in the year to February — with perpetrators on super fast bikes escaping with frightening ease. Anthony France and Jonathan Kanengoni go on patrol with the Venice Squad, a specialist Met police unit tackling the problem.

3 Mar 2023
Music

How African music from Burna Boy to Tems has conquered the mainstream

The unique sounds of the continent have been embraced by British music fans

2 Mar 2023
Sabrina Carpenter
Music

BBC removes Sabrina Carpenter’s Live Lounge after inappropriate joke

The singer made an explicit joke with the BBC’s name while performing her track Nonsense

27 Feb 2023
London

King’s royal seal of approval for the Felix Project

Charles met with staff, volunteers and Evening Standard proprietor Lord Lebedev at the Felix Project during a tour of its warehouse and kitchens in Poplar

22 Feb 2023
Music

Girls Rock London: the initiative addressing gender imbalance in music

GRL co-founder Jessie Maryon Davies says more needs to be done to increase representation of marginalised genders in the music industry

20 Feb 2023
Film

Titanic beats the new Avatar to become third highest-grossing movie

Titanic may not hold onto the position for long though, as Avatar: The Way of Water continues its box office success

13 Feb 2023
NFL: Super Bowl LVII-Kansas City Chiefs vs Philadelphia Eagles
Music

All the biggest moments from Rihanna’s Super Bowl LVII halftime show

Her performance produced many memorable moments, including a ‘surprise guest’

13 Feb 2023
Crime

More than half of Londoners do not trust the Met Police, poll shows

Figures shared with the Standard come as former Met officer David Carrick recieves 36 life sentences for horrific sex offences

10 Feb 2023
Music

Channel 4’s Dropped: the YouTube comedy taking aim at UK rap

The show follows fictional East London rap group ATM and their attempts to make it in the industry

8 Feb 2023
65th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles
Music

Why Beyoncé should have won album of the year at the Grammys

The Grammy’s most awarded artist of all time has never won album of the year

6 Feb 2023
Music

Who will Rihanna bring out for her Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show?

The public will be hoping the Umbrella singer’s performance is “raining” with special guests

2 Feb 2023
Music

Parklife 2023 line-up: The 1975, Aitch and The Prodigy announced

Huge names announced ahead of Manchester’s two-day summer weekender

1 Feb 2023