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Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with Michal Boncza
Latest releases from Dutty Moonshine Big Band and Ma Polaine's Great Decline
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
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Dutty Moonshine Big Band
City of Sin
(Universal Music Group)
★★★★★
THE 12-STRONG Dutty Moonshine Big Band’s second album City Of Sin is an entertaining melange of atmospheric, 1930s-noir storytelling, innovatively spiced with rap.
The fulsome voices of Maria Laveau and Hypeman Sage switch dazzlingly between rapping and big-band crooning to narrate, tongue-in-cheek, the tale of a gang of moonshine bootleggers on their way up in the criminal world.
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