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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...
Music Reissues Weekly: Liverpool Sunset - The City After Mer...
What happens after the spotlight is directed towards another target? In the case of Liverpool and the Merseybeat boom – which, in terms of chart...
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Czech Philharmonic, Bychkov, Barbican re...
Exactly half a century ago, Semyon Bychkov fled the USSR for the United States as he sought to swap tyranny for liberty. Last night, in a world...
Drive to Survive, Season 7, Netflix review - speed, scandal...
Last year’s sixth season of Drive to Survive radiated an air of diminishing returns. It was as though the novelty of its spy-in-the-...
Bonhoeffer review - flawed biopic of a saintly man of courag...
The German theologian, pastor and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a saintly, courageous figure, of major historical...
Matt Forde, Touring review - politics, poo and Viagra
Matt Forde gives a warning: “Don’t heckle the disabled – that’s a hate crime.” What an opener for his latest touring show, The End...
Twiggy review - portrait of a supermodel who branched out
When Twiggy burst on to the scene in 1966, she was a beacon of hope for all flat-chested, short-haired, skinny girls. Of course we couldn’t look...
Album: Lady Gaga - Mayhem
Just the other day I overheard one of my kids watching a YouTuber called Nathan Zed and was instantly gripped. It was called ...
On Falling review - human cogs in a merciless machine
Alienation, isolation, and instability are the fruits of working as a “picker” in the chilling labour drama On Falling. The first feature...