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
Transporting fans to outer space and back
Godspeed
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Electric Ballroom, Camden
ANARCHIST post-rock legends Godspeed do a great job of building a wall of sound at Camden’s old goth venue, the Electric Ballroom, although you’d expect nothing less.
Since forming almost 30 years ago in Montreal, Canada, the 10-piece collective have garnered a reputation for epic live sets of Swans-esque cacophony and crescendoing intensity.
Three electric guitars, two basses, two drummers and a violinist, coupled with samples of short-wave radio transmissions, are behind their unique sound.
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