ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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‘Who are the real criminals?’
An insightful exploration of an unexplored world of rap and its many contradictions impresses MAYER WAKEFIELD
'When will it end?'
[HighRise Entertainment UK Drill Project]
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
UK Drill Project
Barbican Pit
FROM the furore surrounding the emergence of NWA (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) and gangsta rap in the mid ’90s to the effective banning of grime nights under Met Police 696 risk assessment forms here in Britain, the repressive criminalisation of rap music is nothing new.
But perhaps it has never been as extreme as the ongoing clampdown on drill music, which is explored with high octane, comic-book energy in HighRise Entertainment’s latest production.
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