MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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Sam Berkson - Another Veteran with a Head Wound
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PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Another Veteran with a Head Wound
Sam Berkson
“I see his uniform is woven / Of blood, bone, flesh and hair” – Adrian Mitchell
An ex-squaddie.
All misery and all lightness
council born and bred
scum of the earth, me.
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In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
SUSAN DARLINGTON swoons in the presence of a magnetic frontman
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb