Alice Lagnado
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Cryin’ Shames - Please Stay, Do T...
Liverpool’s The Cryin’ Shames were responsible for two of mid-Sixties Britain’s most striking single’s tracks. The February 1966 top side “Please...
theartsdesk at Smetanova Litomyšl - three fascinating operas...
What did they put in the water of Czechia’s central Bohemia/Moravia borderlands? From south to north there's Mahler’s birthplace in Kali...
The Exorcism review - salvaged horror movie is a diabolical...
Helpfully, this is a film that reviews itself. Like it says on the posters, “They were making a cursed movie. They were warned not to. They should...
Album: Zara McFarlane - Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Va...
When Zara McFarlane sang the National Anthem at this year’s FA Cup Final, it served as a reminder of quite how adaptable she is, how suited so...
Green Border review - Europe's baleful boundary
We’re used to dabs of colour splashing briefly across black-and-white movies – Spielberg’s Schindler’s List or Coppola’s Rumble Fish...
Rain Parade, 229 review - the Paisley Underground perennials...
It kicks off with “No Easy Way Down.” First released on 1984’s mini-LP Explosions in the Glass Palace, it was an instant benchmark by...
The Bounds, Royal Court review - soccer play scores badly
Every day this week I’m watching a football match, and now – after April’s production of Lydia Higman, Julia Grogan and Rachel Lemon’s Gunter...
Album: Wytch Pycknyck - Wytch Pycknyck
Out on the perimeters where there are no stars, in a void full of bong-smoke and synesthetic noise… there, in a greasy biker hovel full of...
The Bikeriders review - beer, brawls and Harley-Davidsons
The best-known book about motorcycle gangs is Hunter S Thompson’s Hell’s Angels, a classic foundational text of the so-called “New...