MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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Eggs, Chips & Leo’s Cafe
Authentic slice of East End working-class life
MEMORY LANE: Hackney Downs and Dalston Lane, East London, 1960s postcard
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PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
A GROWING political awareness underscores Eggs, Chips & Leo’s Cafe, Brian Capaloff’s entertaining and poignant collection of reminiscences.
Being a memoir, these recollections might otherwise be of somewhat random occurrences, but the author’s socialist analysis ensures that they are each viewed as stepping stones to explaining the man he is today.
In an explanatory note at the start of the book, Capaloff is clear that this is an assertion of his and others’ working-class identity and not another book about the so-called middle class.
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