JENNY FARRELL relishes an intimate memoir about growing up in the household of the great Irish communist and playwright Sean O’Casey
Wizard Gizzard
Prolific Australian cult rockers KGLW treated a Liverpool crowd to a typically eclectic gig says EWAN KOTZ
Ambrose Kenny-Smith of KGWL and keffiyeh in Liverpool
[Ewan Kotz]
SIAN LEWIS relishes a comprehensive account of high rise social housing in Britain by prize-winning social and political historian Holly Smith
SIMON PARSONS feels a little overwhelmed by the joke count of an ebullient production that manages to convey Stoker’s Dracula without corpsing
SYLVIA HIKINS enjoys a varied Scouse alternative to traditional pantomimes
Rereleases from The Pentangle, The Charlie Daniels Band, and Cousins and Willoughby
ANDY HEDGECOCK picks out his cultural highlights of 2025
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Liverpool Olympia
OPENING with a breathtaking suite ripped from their critically acclaimed 2016 album Nonagon Infinity, the band sweated its way through a set of high-octane improvised psychedelic jams, microtones and thrash-metal head-bangers, making the most of every second of their two-hour set.
The Nonagon suite was followed by the debut of the as-yet unreleased Raw Feel, one of the new songs from their upcoming 26th (yes, 26th!) album.
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