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Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
‘It would be brilliant if our music made the world better’
That's what Polish avant-garde rocker GRZEGORZ KWIATKOWSKI hopes but, says Michal Boncza, he isn't holding his breath
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
TRUPA TRUPA, about to launch their new EP in this country, made waves in Britain last autumn with their remarkable album Of The Sun.
Their laconic and pessimistic lyrics were inspired by the Sisyphean struggles of, among others, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote and the Irish protagonist of Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo. He was immortalised on celluloid by Klaus Kinski, born in Trupa Trupa’s home city of Gdansk.
The band’s unusual collectivism and internal democracy is evident in the insistence of lead singer Gregorz Kwiatkowski — former busker on the streets of Liverpool and one of the band’s two lyricists — who will speak to me only in personal capacity.
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