thu 28/08/2025
Home > users

Peter Culshaw

Peter Culshaw's picture
Bio
Peter is a music and arts broadcaster and has written for the Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Songlines, among others in the UK and internationally. He has written a recently published book Clandestino: In Search Of Manu Chao published by Serpent's Tail and has produced and compiled numerous CDs. He was a founding Director of theartsdesk, and is co-editor of the New Music section.

Articles By Peter Culshaw

Ennio Morricone 1928-2020: A lost afternoon in his apartment in Rome

Tuesday, 07 July 2020 Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 28 - Tony Allen tribute with guest Stephen Budd

Saturday, 04 July 2020 Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 27 - direct from Sāo Paulo with guest stars including Chico César

Tuesday, 17 March 2020 Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 26 - with guest from the Amazon, the latest Brazilian star Arthur Nogueira

Monday, 25 November 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 25 - with bohemian chanteuse Anne Pigalle

Saturday, 26 October 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 24 - hot subcontinental sounds with guest Viveick Rajagopalan

Saturday, 21 September 2019 Read more...

WOMAD, Charlton Park review - a gloriously defiant global music celebration

Thursday, 01 August 2019 Read more...

10th Odessa International Film Festival review - exquisite gay love stories and visionary new music

Saturday, 27 July 2019 Read more...

Oumou Sangaré, Earth review - the new Mama Africa takes her crown

Saturday, 13 April 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 23 - the hottest Brazil sounds for 2019 with guest Tiago Di Mauro

Saturday, 05 January 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 22 - the autumn's newest global sounds

Saturday, 15 September 2018 Read more...

'I read French from left to right and Arabic from right to left': remembering Algerian rebel rocker Rachid Taha

Friday, 14 September 2018 Read more...

BaianaSystem, Village Underground - the new Brazilian contenders

Monday, 06 August 2018 Read more...

WOMAD 2, Charlton Park review - rainbows and rumba

Thursday, 02 August 2018 Read more...

David Byrne, Eventim Apollo review - twice in a lifetime?

Thursday, 21 June 2018 Read more...

Ismaili a Go-Go: How the Aga Khan funded a music renaissance

Tuesday, 19 June 2018 Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
theartsdesk Q&A: Suranne Jones on 'Hostage', p...

If she decided to run for election, Suranne Jones would probably stand a good chance of winning. The Chadderton-born actress and...

BBC Proms: The Marriage of Figaro, Glyndebourne Festival rev...

One door closes, and another one opens. A lot. It’s extraordinary what value those two simple additions to the Royal Albert Hall stage lent to...

Fat Ham, RSC, Stratford review - it's Hamlet Jim, but n...

$8.2B. That’s what can happen when you re-imagine ...

King & Conqueror, BBC One review - not many kicks in 106...

In this strangely dreary recreation of 11th century history, it’s not just grim oop north, it’s grim everywhere. King & Conqueror...

Juniper Blood, Donmar Warehouse review - where ideas and ide...

Playwright Mike Bartlett is, like many writers, a chronicler of both contemporary manners and of the state of the nation. In his latest domestic...

Album: The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives

The Hives must be one of the most self-assured bands around – but not without good reason. Ever exuberant, all their tunes are short and sweet,...

BBC Proms: Faust, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Nelsons revie...

Does the orchestra that sways together play together? Quite apart from their (reliably gorgeous) sound, the tight-packed strings of the...

Elizabeth Alker: Everything We Do is Music review - Prokofie...

Composers and musicians explore acoustic...

Album: Benedicte Maurseth - Mirra

During the opening seconds of Mirra, an unusual sound leaps out – a grunting. It’s integral to a shifting aural pallete which also...