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Garbage, O2 Academy, Leeds
Post-gothic pleasures from masters of rock, electronica and grunge
Engaging: Shirley Manson
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
“THIS is the apocalypse,” warns Shirley Manson on the song No Horses and the starkness of that sentiment is undercut by a driving beat and backwards guitar, making it the perfect virtual soundtrack for Extinction Rebellion, staging a protest across town in an attempt to get the government to avert climate Armageddon.
It’s one of the few timely interventions by Garbage during their first Leeds gig for 20 years for, as futuristic as their fusion of industrial rock, electronic music and grunge sounded when they released their eponymous debut album in 1995, the US-British quartet have never really embraced change.
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