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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‘It would be brilliant if our music made the world better’
That's what Polish avant-garde rocker GRZEGORZ KWIATKOWSKI hopes but, says Michal Boncza, he isn't holding his breath
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
TRUPA TRUPA, about to launch their new EP in this country, made waves in Britain last autumn with their remarkable album Of The Sun.
Their laconic and pessimistic lyrics were inspired by the Sisyphean struggles of, among others, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote and the Irish protagonist of Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo. He was immortalised on celluloid by Klaus Kinski, born in Trupa Trupa’s home city of Gdansk.
The band’s unusual collectivism and internal democracy is evident in the insistence of lead singer Gregorz Kwiatkowski — former busker on the streets of Liverpool and one of the band’s two lyricists — who will speak to me only in personal capacity.
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