Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Contempt for the warmongers
PAUL FARMER relishes, and recommends a magisterial set from one of the great singer-songwriters
TRADEMARK BERET: Richard Thompson and Zara Phillips play Bristol Beacon
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Richard Thompson Band,
Bristol Beacon
A BRITISH concert by Richard Thompson is an occasion and there was a real feeling of excitement in the wide-open vestibules of this newly refurbished (and renamed) venue.
This powerful performance began with the sinuous Freeze from new LP Ship to Shore, Thompson sporting a fetching pink Stratocaster and his familiar starred beret, alongside Taras Prodaniuk on bass, Zak Dobbs on guitar and mandolin, Zara Phillips on vocals and acoustic guitar and the legendary Dave Mattacks on drums.
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