DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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High Rise Estate of Mind, Battersea Arts Centre/Touring
Music, poetry and storytelling give powerful voice to a generation's fears about London's housing crisis
Driving force: Conrad Murray
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
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The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
THIS year’s Homegrown festival at Battersea Arts Centre is dubbed Occupy and High Rise Estate of Mind lives up to that insurgent billing to thrilling effect.
The hour-long ride is broken up into short, sharp bursts which switch between the deeply personal “real world” moments of the four performers and a dystopian narrative of a wealth-segregated tower block, clearly influenced by JG Ballard’s 1975 novel High Rise.
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