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Little Boots, The Garage London
Hands-on magic from diminutive diva
Celebrant: Little Boots
[Justin Higuchi]
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
LITTLE Boots’s debut albums Hands — a selection of melodic and synth-based mini-symphonies — rightly saw the pint-size performer top the BBC’s Sound of 2009 poll.
Ten years on, the Blackpool-born and LA-based singer-songwriter — aka Victoria Hesketh — is back in town to perform that very album for a one-off celebration.
It's an 18-track odyssey which culminates in a mass stage invasion.
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