MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
MC50's political pulse beats as powerfully as ever
Brother-in-arms: Wayne Kramer
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JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
MC50
02 Academy, Glasgow/Touring
IT WAS time to testify as founding member “brother” Wayne Kramer of the MC5 brings an all-star line-up — dubbed MC50 — to Glasgow on this latest leg of their world tour.
Celebrating the half century with Kramer since the release of the groundbreaking Kick Out the Jams album are Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, King's X singer-bassist Doug Pinnick, Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and Zen Guerrilla frontman Marcus Durant.
Their message isn’t lost on the young and preponderantly older audience. Originally intended merely as a document of their live show, the Kick out the Jams album stands as a flashpoint for punk, garage and the visceral power of politically charged rock, explicit on the question the title track poses of whether listeners are going to be part of the problem or the solution.
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