MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
Album reviews with Steve Johnson
Albums
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
Julie Abbe
Numberless Dreams
(julieabbe.com)
★★★★
JULIE ABBE is a Bristol-based folk and jazz singer who, as well as possessing a beautiful voice, is a talented cello and concertina player.
Her debut folk album brings together poems by WB Yeats which she has put to music as well as some traditional folk songs, mainly from Ireland.
More from this author
New releases from Steve Knightley, Sunjay, Sociograss
STEVE JOHNSON recommends the autobiography of the great US singer-songwriter and activist, Barbara Dane
New releases from George Boomsma, Pete Morton and Jack Badcock
New releases from The Trials of Cato, Rachel Baiman and Megson
