Robert Sandall
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Robert, who died in 2010, was a presenter of BBC Radio 3's Mixing It and formerly the Sunday Times rock critic, and also wrote on contemporary music for the Daily Telegraph, The Times and Sunday Times.
Articles By Robert Sandall
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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...
This City is Ours, BBC One review - civil war rocks family c...
The dramatic allure of families neck-deep in organised crime never seems to falter, and Stephen Butchard’s new series continues that great...
Album: Erlend Apneseth - Song Over Støv
A pizzicato violin opens Song Over Støv. Gradually, other instruments arrive: bowed violin, a fluttering flute, pattering percussion, an...
Music Reissues Weekly: Yeah Man, It's Bloody Heavy
The sticker on the front cover says “The heaviest proto-metal compilation ever released.” And considering the label behind Yeah Man,...
Album: Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt - Loose Talk
On the spoken word LP Loose Talk, Amelia Barratt reflects on her or other...
Biss, National Symphony Orchestra, Kuokman, NCH Dublin revie...
On paper, it was a standard programme with no stars to explain how this came to be a sellout concert. But packed it was, an audience of all ages...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical, Theatre Royal Bath r...
In Italy, they did it differently. Their pulp fiction tales of suburban transgression appeared between yellow covers on new stands...
Album: Will Smith - Based on a True Story
Will Smith’s new album, Based on a True Story, is a prime example of why some comebacks should remain hypothetical. After two decades...
Verdi Requiem, Philharmonia, Muti, RFH review - new sparks f...
Forget, for a moment, the legend and the lustre. If you knew nothing about Riccardo Muti’s half-century of history with Verdi’s Messa da...
Wilko: Love and Death and Rock'n'Roll, Southwark P...
Resurrecting the origins of old rock stars is becoming quite the thing, After cinema’s Elton John, Freddie Mercury, Bob Dylan and...