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The Slinkopator and Hornicator win the day
(L to R) The Slinkopator; Thomas Truax with ardent fans
[Justine Glazebrook]
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Wood Festival 2022
Braziers Park, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
WOOD FESTIVAL is well established as one of the most family-friendly festivals in Britain and, broadly speaking, the music tends to fall into two main categories — folk-tinged Americana or Afro-dance fusion.
Representing the latter category are five-piece WEMA, at the heart of whose sound lies a combination of acoustic Tanzanian sounds and vocals with heavy electronics.
This set was their first ever live show after two years of online collaboration.
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