MARIA DUARTE reviews Desperate Journey, Blue Moon, Pillion, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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Lau, Kings Place London
Lau are taking folk music on a thrillingly innovative journey
Unique: Lau
WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
NOT many folk bands employ dry ice on stage. But then, Lau are not like many folk bands.
On this night, they ventured more into the realms of psychedelic prog rock than anything from the traditional canon, although their fascinating doodlings and experiments were always firmly rooted in that milieu.
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