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Live Music Review: Laibach
Everyone's favourite tongue-in-cheek totalitarians are as full-on as ever
Great helmsman: Laibach's Milan Fras
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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
Laibach
Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
LAIBACH are currently touring off the back of Liberation Day, the acclaimed documentary — or should that be mockumentary? — about the group’s gig in North Korea which made them the first Western band to perform in the country.
The gig in three parts start with a special screening of a film which offers a hugely entertaining window into the various ups and downs the group faced trying to navigate the country’s notoriously bureaucratic systems.
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