To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
FED up with so much miserable news? Prepare yourself for some more. Coldplay have just announced that they are releasing a new album next month and, worse still, it’s a double. That’s awful.
But there is an antidote available right now. Cancelled Rearranged, the brilliant new album by Skewwhiff, has just been released and I had a wonderful time as special guest at the launch party in their home town of Worcester last Friday week in front of a very enthusiastic audience.
Fame is a strange and fickle thing. I’m sure most of you have seen performers of all kinds in pubs and small venues who have wowed you with their brilliance and thought: “How the hell are they not household names?”
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ethiopian vocalist SOFIA JERNBERG


