RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Lau, Kings Place London
Lau are taking folk music on a thrillingly innovative journey
Unique: Lau
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
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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