MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Garbage, O2 Academy, Leeds
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MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
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JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
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JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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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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