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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
Massive Attack of magnificence in Blackheath
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
Massive Attack, OnBlackheath Festival, London SE3
5/5
Fresh from their triumph at the Fete de l’Humanite in France the night before, Massive Attack pull off another knock-out performance at this intimate new festival, ably supported by Grace Jones and nu-jazz newcomers Badbadnotgood.
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