CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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Music: Daughter
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
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Over the course of two albums, including the recently released Not To Disappear, Daughter have carved out a niche of musical navel-gazing and such lyrical vulnerability brings out the audience’s maternal instinct towards front-woman Elena Tonra.
There’s a virtual group hug from the crowd every time she awkwardly addresses it in a whisper and collective coos of reassurance when she sadly sighs: “Let the water rise/Let the ground crack/Let me fall inside,” over post-shoegaze guitars on Shallows.
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