GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Best of 2024: Jazz albums
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
2024: a groovy year!
The sleeve notes of The Banger Factory’s new double album, Magnus Opus (Banger Factory Records) says it all: “It’s a celebration of unity, love, togetherness and faith in the transformative power of music.” Twenty musicians well met in Brixton play with tremendous verve, spirit and collective power.
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