SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Attila the Stockbroker Diary: December 14, 2024
The bard fumes at inaccurate nomenclature and picks his musical highlights of 2024
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
WONDERFUL time on tour for the last few weeks: West Midlands, Scotland, Germany, East Midlands. Time and tide wait for no-one, and they caught up with me recently on the front page of the Isle of Bute News following my gig there. It was very well-intentioned and complimentary but the headline chilled me to the core.
“Veteran comedian wows Rothesay crowd”
Now, I am not a fan of either the V or C words, and to see them combined in such a way was too much.
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