Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
‘You have to embrace the unknown’
Jazz saxophonist TRISH CLOWES tells Chris Searle why she and her band My Iris are so open to experiment
PIC CAP Lung-power: Trish Clowes in action Pic: Bob Meyrick
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
“A TON of ideas for new tunes,” was one of the positives of Trish Clowes’s 2017 tour with her band My Iris.
Those tunes are there on her fifth album Ninety Degrees Gravity, the result of “a lot of back and forth” between her and guitarist Chris Montague, drummer James Maddren and Ross Stanley on piano and organ. “We allow the music to evolve, there’s so much scope for different sound-worlds,” she says.
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