New Music Lockdown 7: Soundgarden, Carl Cox, Tim Burgess, Island Records Auction and more

NEW MUSIC LOCKDOWN 7 Soundgarden, Carl Cox, Tim Burgess, Island Records Auction and more

The latest, liveliest selection of music-related stuff to watch, do and listen to at home

Onto our seventh Lockdown selection and things are only getting busier out there, with more to see, hear and get involved in. Below are five of the best for this week. Dive in!

BBC Radio One Big Weekend 2020

'What Grandma said (Grandma’s Corona)': sonnets by Claudia Daventry

WHAT GRANDMA SAID (GRANDMA'S CORONA) Sonnets by award-winning poet Claudia Daventry

The award-winning poet introduces her timely sequence mapping out all we have lost

A year plagued by Coronavirus is surely a time to dust off a seldom-aired poetic form, the Corona of sonnets, which was first dreamed up – officially, anyway – by the Siena Academy. John Donne used the form to illustrate the circularity of existence and our connection with a creator, later expressed – in poetry – in Eliot's "in my end is my beginning".