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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Sister acts in Salford lay down a marker for the year ahead
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
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Grace Petrie + Ajah-UK
+ Steph Pike
The Kings Arms, Salford
5/5
AJAH-UK take the stage and make it — and the audience — theirs.
Five strong, proud and talented women, they fuse genres, styles, cultures and traditions to create an ugly, beautiful sound that is fresh and perfectly in tune with their ethos of feminism, socialism and humanity.
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