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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
'See you on the picket line'
STEVE WHITE AND THE PROTEST FAMILY talk to Bob Oram about the activist approach to making inspirational music
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
Home to the beautiful William Morris Gallery, a closed-down dog track and East 17, Walthamstow is captured perfectly on the superb latest album This Band is Sick from Steve White and the Protest Family.
With White on guitar, harmonica and vocals, Funky Lol Ross on mandolin and electric guitar, Doug E Harper on bass and Russ Chandler on banjo it's a protest album fusing punk and folk that is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with workers and the oppressed.
But it's not all about doom and gloom, as White explains. “We started the year in typical Protest Family style, agreeing to play a benefit show for UCU members on indefinite strike at Lambeth College.
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