Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Abum reviews with Ben Lunn
Kevin Richard Martin, Return to Solaris; Various, The Night With... Live Vol2; Rui Travasso
Letters From Quarantine
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Kevin Richard Martin
Return to Solaris
(Phantom Limb)
★★★
HAVING the gumption to tackle something as seminal as Solaris is either incredibly brave and daring or the most brazen example of foolishness.
The biggest challenge for the composer is not only daring to create something for one of the most important films of the last century but also placing themselves in direct contention with the original composer, Eduard Artemyev.
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