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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Send in the Clowns with James Walsh: August 15, 2022
The Fringe, in its current form, is unsustainable as it means selling one of your more important organs to pay the greedy landlords
Charlie Veri-Martin
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
“I’m off to clown college because it’s cheaper and more accessible to go to Paris and study with a master than to do an arts festival in my home town.”
Charlie Vero-Martin, actor, comedian, writer and improviser, is on stage with a basket with googly eyes.
He is called Mr Basketcase. It is 2am on a Monday morning.
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