Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Brighton’s finest
TOM STONE relishes a classic band who have burnished their anti-nationalistic credentials
HORATIO HORNBLOWER: Sea Power (formerly British Sea Power) rock the Brighton festival
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Sea Power
The Corn Exchange, Brighton
IN August 2021 British Sea Power did something few bands with a successful 20-year career under their belts would consider – they changed their name.
In something of a political statement they became simply Sea Power, issuing a statement against the stop the boats rhetoric: “In recent times there’s been a rise in a certain kind of nationalism in this world – an isolationist, antagonistic nationalism that we don’t want to run any risk of being confused with.”
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