Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Sweet airs
BRIAN DENNY recommends the delicate and ethereal music of an Essex troubadour
sweet airs
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MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
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A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Days of Shaking
MG Boulter
Hudson Records
TO borrow from Karl Marx, if you feel compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of life, a drop of MG Boulter’s fourth album Days of Shaking wouldn’t do you any harm.
Readers may be familiar with this Essex troubadour’s tales of suburban realism and his matter-of-fact demeanour from his last well-received offering Clifftown, an album dedicated to his home town.
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