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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
NEARING the end of their world tour, which included their first US gigs in a decade, Essex boys Nitzer Ebb are living the dream as they return to perform on home soil in this appropriately Berlin bunker-esque venue.
Their raw sound, thankfully ungarnished by the overproduction that has sullied the sound of more recent industrial bands, has a straight-up post-punk ethos that was very much a part of the 1980s zeitgeist inspired by the anti-Thatcher protest movement.
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