The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
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Killing me softly
BEN LUNN decodes the misleading rhetoric by which the BBC masks a philistine Tory agenda in the arts
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PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
New releases from Ibex Band, Lucy Dacus, and Various Artists
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
ON March 7, the BBC announced their New Strategy for Classical Music. Following a year of review, which they say explores the culture sector as a whole, while investigating the BBC’s role within it, the new strategy supposedly will “strengthen its public purpose for classical music, delivering the best music to a wider audience, with a significant new investment in music education”.
The five key points of this strategy are:
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