MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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James Walsh’s Culture Matters: The celebratory mood of the man from Buenos Aires and Kentish Town.
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
A man stands directly in front of the stage, facing ex-Auteurs singer Luke Haines, who is in London for a root around his burgeoning back catalogue.
The man is wearing a Suede t-shirt and, during large portions of the set, checks his phone for the football scores. I begin to wonder if he is some kind of performance art, making reference to Haines’s ’90s beef with the Britpopping androgynysts and Haines’s own descent into a kind of amused irrelevance.
I wouldn’t put it past him — last time I saw Luke on this stage, I was offered liver sausages by a man dressed as Kendo Nagasaki.
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