STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Gazelle Twin + NYX, Queen Elizabeth Hall London
Uncompromising electronica subverts a passion for the pastoral
‘Deranged jockey’: Gazelle Twin
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
BRIGHTON-BORN Elizabeth Bernholz, aka Gazelle Twin, is an electronic musician-cum-performance artist inspired by the power of disguise.
On her latest and arguably greatest record, Pastoral, she rides a hobby horse and, sporting a white cap and playing a recorder, is kitted out like a deranged jockey in red, with a balaclava covering her face, long socks and Adidas trainers — Gazelles of course.
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