STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Voice and guitar virtuosity from Roberts and Lakeman
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
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OUT and about to promote their must-hear new album Personae, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman win the audience over as much with their candour as the engrossing music they offer up.
Theirs is an intimate set, allowing close-up appreciation of Roberts’s extraordinary vocal range and interpretative skill and Lakeman’s startling guitar mastery.
We're all captivated by the tragic melancholy of 52 Hertz, a song about a Pacific Ocean whale who mysteriously transmitted his calls on a frequency inaudible to other whales — who use a different wavelength — and consequently became the loneliest whale on Earth. Marine biologists believe he was born deaf.
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