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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Don’t be left without Star’s top CD
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
Political songwriting is alive and kicking those it should, says Kofi Smith
Something of a successor to last year’s Orgreave Justice and Hope Not Hate compilations, brand new double album Don’t Be Left Without Us showcases two packed CDs of brilliant current music including a wealth of politically committed songwriting alongside assorted tunes by left-aligned artists.
It has become a dreadful cliche that “there’s no political music any more,” but one that the corporate media is happy to repeat, making an implied comparison with the eras of Thatcher and Vietnam, while the truth is more complicated.
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