GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Drumming of some consequence
DRUM WIZARDRY: Chris Corsano
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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
THE touring US improvising drummer Chris Corsano, born in Englewood, New Jersey in 1975, played a quartet of gigs at the Cafe Oto in Dalston, with several groups of outstanding British-based musicians.
His performance with Evan Parker, John Edwards and Pat Thomas was a sonic cauldron.
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