Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
‘This feels like natural communism, where we think of our music and work together as a shared collective’
CHRIS SEARLE interviews veteran pianist VERYAN WESTON
THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE: Trevor Watts, Jamie Harris and Veryan Weston at The Globe, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2024
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MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
GRAVITY is the powerful new album by The Eternal Triangle, composed of octogenarian soprano and alto saxophonist Trevor Watts, septuagenarian pianist and multi-keyboard virtuoso Veryan Weston, and the much younger percussionist Jamie Harris.
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