ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
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Forwards lives up to expectations
GEORGE FOGARTY offers a rapping summation
Kae Tempest, at FORWARDS festival 2022
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
Forwards Bristol Music Festival
Clifton Downs
Gathering outside with drums pounding is basic to humanity
Since before the neolithic counter-revolution you call the dawn of history
First up today is Melt Yourself Down
Purveyors of a visceral new sound
Tired of faking the ride
They respect and connect with the storm inside
Ruth Goller, the pounding heart of the place
Gutsy and raw and born to rock bass
Two saxes collide, punchy as fuck
Perfect for yer sunday morning moshpit ruck
The urgency of now built on a power of old
African rhythms with a beauteously dirty punk soul
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