JON BALDWIN recommends a provocative assertion of how working-class culture can rethink knowledge
Contempt for the warmongers
PAUL FARMER relishes, and recommends a magisterial set from one of the great singer-songwriters
TRADEMARK BERET: Richard Thompson and Zara Phillips play Bristol Beacon
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
Richard Thompson Band,
Bristol Beacon
A BRITISH concert by Richard Thompson is an occasion and there was a real feeling of excitement in the wide-open vestibules of this newly refurbished (and renamed) venue.
This powerful performance began with the sinuous Freeze from new LP Ship to Shore, Thompson sporting a fetching pink Stratocaster and his familiar starred beret, alongside Taras Prodaniuk on bass, Zak Dobbs on guitar and mandolin, Zara Phillips on vocals and acoustic guitar and the legendary Dave Mattacks on drums.
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