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EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
NEW YORK’S Daddy Long Legs descended on the depths of Hackney to play two sold-out shows as part of a worldwide tour in a vintage clothing shop by day and a bar-cum-club and general hangout by night.
Daddy Long Legs are right at home in front of a packed house in what’s an unusual venue, with guitarist Murat Akturk, looking like the long-lost brother of Johnny Marr, getting sounds from his guitar that set the scene, while Josh Styles on drums and maracas — sometimes on both at the same time — could’ve walked straight out of the 1960s.
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