MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Dismantle Yourself by Sloth Racket
Inventive northern souls embrace free spirit of improvisation
HOLDING ON TO OPTIMISM: Sloth Racket
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
INSTIGATOR of that quintet of surprising and ever-inventive sounds Sloth Racket, is baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts.
As a teenager she was into rock music, so her musical starting points weren’t jazz.
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