In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
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The electronic music fest returns with abundant and gripping surprises
DAZZLING: Caterina Barbieri and friends
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Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context
RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s
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Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Printworks, London
LONDON’S electronic music festival set in brutalist buildings around the capital got off to a grand start on its launch in 2019.
Finally returning after a two-year pandemic-influenced delay, the festival has been pared back somewhat to just three events, but its vision to showcase some of the most unique experimental electronic artists out there is still very much intact.
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