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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Album Review: What Have We Become by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott
MATTHEW COLLINS finds that, nearly 15 years after Jacqui Abbott's departure from The Beautiful South, she and Paul Heaton still have the strength to throw political and personal Molotov cocktails
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Reunited after 15 years, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott have come up with the outstanding new album What Have We Become.
It’s the result of singer Abbott finally returning from teaching, parenting and a stint at Age Concern to assist Heaton’s ageless musical gripes, observations and emotional Molotov cocktails over the finishing line once more.
And, for the first time in over a decade, Heaton finds himself with a top-10 album as seditious and delicious as anything he’s written before.
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