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Festival review / 20 August 2025
20 August 2025

GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism

The captivating Tawanda. Photo: Justine Glazebrook/Author supplied
Culture / 22 May 2025
22 May 2025

GEORGE FOGARTY falls under a spell of an unpretentious gathering that is as edifying as it is entertaining

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Music / 2 May 2025
2 May 2025

GEORGE FOGARTY is stunned by the epic and life-affirming sound of an outstanding Palestinian musical collective

TOMORROW'S WARRIOR: Nubya Garcia
Live Music Review / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
GEORGE FOGARTY is mesmerised by the messages made when jazz is played by people who grew up steeped in jungle and hip-hop
LYCANTHROPIC STAND UP: Stewart Lee vs The ManWulf
Comedy / 10 February 2025
10 February 2025
GEORGE FOGARTY applauds a show that punches down alt-right-friendly comedy
Aja Monet
Interview / 9 October 2024
9 October 2024
George Fogarty speaks to US Surrealist Blues poet AJA MONET
MUSIC FOR OUR TIMES: Disraeli leads the singing at Edinburgh
Gig Review / 30 May 2024
30 May 2024
This is music that brings the party, the catharsis and the love all at once, says GEORGE FOGARTY 
Apphia Campbell as Nina Simone
Theatre review / 31 January 2024
31 January 2024
GEORGE FOGARTY is gripped by a brilliant one-woman show about the singer Nina Simone
Left: Lova Lova; Right: Comet is Coming
Festival Review / 4 August 2023
4 August 2023
GEORGE FOGARTY finds that alternatives to so-called capitalist realism are thriving in the world music scene
REMARKABLE: Neil Gore in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
Theatre Review / 21 March 2023
21 March 2023
GEORGE FOGARTY applauds a brilliant one-man version of Robert Tressell’s classic of working-class literature
Acting Lab: Perform
Theatre Review / 2 March 2023
2 March 2023
GEORGE FOGARTY is sickened, amused and stirred to action by a unique community theatre show
VIRTUOSOS: Ramana Batachandran and Sabir Khan
Music review / 14 October 2022
14 October 2022
GEORGE FOGARTY highly recommends the Darbar Festival at the Barbican
Kae Tempest, at FORWARDS festival 2022
Live Music Review / 7 September 2022
7 September 2022
GEORGE FOGARTY offers a rapping summation
Ezra Collective
Music Review / 15 July 2022
15 July 2022
(L to R) The Slinkopator; Thomas Truax with ardent fans
Music Review / 26 May 2022
26 May 2022
BRECHTIAN THEATRICS: Tiger Lillies’ Christmas Carol
Music Review / 17 December 2021
17 December 2021
Chineke!
Music Review / 21 October 2021
21 October 2021
Festival Review / 1 August 2019
1 August 2019
Kora virtuoso: Jali-Fily Cissokho
Music review / 21 May 2019
21 May 2019
Small but perfectly formed world music event punches well above its weight
Culture / 6 March 2019
6 March 2019
Goran Bregovic’s Weddings and Funerals Orchestra produce a gloriously exuberant Balkans sound which is taking the world by storm
Music Review / 21 February 2019
21 February 2019
Utterly compelling: Martyn Jacques (centre)
Cabaret Review / 31 August 2018
31 August 2018