EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Garbage, O2 Academy, Leeds
Post-gothic pleasures from masters of rock, electronica and grunge
Engaging: Shirley Manson
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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
“THIS is the apocalypse,” warns Shirley Manson on the song No Horses and the starkness of that sentiment is undercut by a driving beat and backwards guitar, making it the perfect virtual soundtrack for Extinction Rebellion, staging a protest across town in an attempt to get the government to avert climate Armageddon.
It’s one of the few timely interventions by Garbage during their first Leeds gig for 20 years for, as futuristic as their fusion of industrial rock, electronic music and grunge sounded when they released their eponymous debut album in 1995, the US-British quartet have never really embraced change.
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