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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Innovative presence on the British jazz scene BINKER GOLDING talks to Chris Searle about his new album
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
NORTH Londoner Binker Golding’s early love for music had a somewhat serendipitous beginning. “I was initially interested in playing guitar but it was forbidden by my parents because of its association with rock music which I was, and am, heavily into,” the north Londoner tells me.
“At the local music school they only had space for a saxophone or violin student. So I chose saxophone out of a process of elimination.”
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