Music
Stern discipline in a class of its own
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Marnie Stern
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Samaris
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Samaris
Servant Jazz Quarters, London N16
The Bug + dBridge + Mad Professor + Mala
Tuesday 18 June 2013
The Bug + dBridge + Mad Professor + Mala
Koko, London NW1
Peter Green
Monday 17 June 2013
As Peter Green was conquering depression and mental illness in the mid-'90s he candidly confessed: "I'm not afraid anymore. Music doesn't scare me the way it used to…" The Splinter Group's body of work provides eloquent supporting evidence of this.
Femi Kuti
Monday 17 June 2013
The latest album from eldest son of Afro-beat founder Fela is a bleak ode to world poverty and though Femi's music is anything but bleak, its content shines a mirror on today's sorry state of affairs.
Scanners
Monday 17 June 2013
Ten years since the Scanners started their stuttering journey through the world of independent labels and grotty venues, they feel like a band enjoying the benefits of foreign success.
Jeffrey Lewis + Peter Stampfel
Friday 14 June 2013
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds/Touring
'We're pretty good on race sometimes but terrible on class'
Wednesday 05 June 2013
Only six months before I finally meet David Henry Hwang, the Western world's most famous playwright of east Asian heritage, the British East Asian Artists (BEAA) led an international protest when the Royal Shakespeare Company gave a miserly three - minor - roles out of 17 to east Asian actors in their first Chinese play The Orphan Of Zhao.
Rare Peel and the radical alternative to Glasto
Wednesday 05 June 2013
It was an absolute honour to play there.