MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Bowled over by the folk-bus
ANGUS REID is transported by a relentless and double-bass-swingingly great set of punkfolk classics
CLASSIC WHITE VEST HIGH-FADE COMBO: Dan Heptinsall and Scott Milsom of Skinny Lister
[Sebastian Madej] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Skinny Lister
The Mash House, Edinburgh
A SEASONED folkpunk band like Skinny Lister take to the stage with swagger and belligerence and launch straight into the nuclear panic of 38 Minutes (“This is not a drill”), their high-octane opener in a relentless and double-bass-swingingly great set of in-your-face energy, tough couplets and attitude.
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The clock turns back for TOM STONE as he’s reminded of the splendour of seminal Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
New releases from Iris DeMent, Japandroids and Aaron Parks
A new release from Brigitte Calls Me Baby; rereleases from Oasis and Louis Armstrong