JON BALDWIN recommends a provocative assertion of how working-class culture can rethink knowledge
Brighton’s finest
TOM STONE relishes a classic band who have burnished their anti-nationalistic credentials
HORATIO HORNBLOWER: Sea Power (formerly British Sea Power) rock the Brighton festival
These are vivid accounts of people’s experiences of far-right violence along with documentation of popular resistance, says MARJORIE MAYO
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE, JOHN GREEN and ANGUS REID review An Army of Women, Julie Keeps Quiet, The Friend and The Ugly Stepsister
GORDON PARSONS squirms at a production that attempts to update Shakespeare’s comedy to a tale of Premier League football
Above a Gothic bar just down from Brighton station, something spooky is happening, suggests JAMES WALSH
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
Sea Power
The Corn Exchange, Brighton
IN August 2021 British Sea Power did something few bands with a successful 20-year career under their belts would consider – they changed their name.
In something of a political statement they became simply Sea Power, issuing a statement against the stop the boats rhetoric: “In recent times there’s been a rise in a certain kind of nationalism in this world – an isolationist, antagonistic nationalism that we don’t want to run any risk of being confused with.”
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