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Succession, Season Four, Sky Atlantic review - powerful begi...
How much more is there left to be said about the excellence of Succession? It’s back for a final season, and devotees will pore over...
Inspiral Carpets, Concorde 2, Brighton review - a raucous ca...
As Inspiral Carpets play “She Comes in the Fall”, a great song and one of their signature tunes, its martial drumming drags me into my own past....
Great Expectations, BBC One review - modernised, muddied and...
There’s no point in being upset with the writer Steven...
The Dead City, English National Opera review - strong dream...
Is Korngold a second-rank composer with some first-rate ideas? Most performances of the 23-year-old Viennese prodigy's Die tote Stadt...
Things to Come, LSO, Strobel, Barbican review - blissful vis...
Last night at the Barbican was my first experience of a...
Antidote review - two films in one that lose sight of their...
“I believe Ayahuasca is something very deep,” says spiritual leader José López Sánchez in the...
Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Takács-Nagy, Stoller Hall, Ma...
It was very much the formula as before, as Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy moved their edition of the...
Album: Sissoko Ségal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés
This is an enchanting album which brings together four outstanding musicians, brilliant in their own right, but also adept at the kind of...
Music Reissues Weekly: The Barracudas - Drop Out With The Ba...
From around July 1977, Jeremy Gluck began contributing to the UK music weekly Sounds. Amongst his pieces were features on The Lurkers,...
Blu-ray: Kamikaze Hearts
Last month’s Storyville: Sex on Screen (available on BBC iPlayer) was a slick, speedy (and repetitive) canter through the...