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Chris Mugan

Articles By Chris Mugan

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Bob Dylan, Royal Albert Hall review - cracked ritual from ro...

Will Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour ever come to an end? Two years on from the last UK tour, he’s returned, with substantially the same band, once...

Maddaddam, Royal Ballet review - superb dancing in a confusi...

Valiant souls who have recently read the Margaret Atwood trilogy on which this new Wayne McGregor piece for the...

The Sound Voice Project, Linbury Theatre review - an art ins...

What does it mean to have a voice? And what does it mean to lose it? Those are the questions the award-winning Sound Voice Project has explored –...

Joy review - the birth pangs of in vitro fertilisation

Marie Curie excepted, movies about female scientists remain scarce, not just because STEM careers and Nobel Prizes still favour men. Now comes the...

Wolves on Road, Bush Theatre review - exciting dialogue, but...

Cryptocurrency is like the myth of El Dorado – a promised land made of fool’s gold. Despite its liberatory potential, it frequently attracts...

Album: Linkin Park - From Zero

The return of Linkin Park has been a long, winding path. The seven years since Chester Bennington's passing have swirled with speculation over...

Rachel Chinouriri, Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow review - a...

It appears Rachel Chinouriri has a good memory. “I remember you!” she yelled excitedly to one fan early on, highlighting that she currently sits...

Album: Jon Batiste - Beethoven Blues

Beethoven’s renown in his own day was not just as a...

Bach Brandenburg Concertos, OAE, QEH review - forever young

Victims of their own success in the postwar era of well-recorded sound, the Brandenburg Concertos first arrived in the ears of listeners from my...