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Join us this long weekend at our 25th Glastonwick beer, music, poetry and more beer Festival
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
AS YOU read this we are at Coombes Farm, near Lancing in West Sussex, in the middle of our Jubilee celebrations! Yes, it’s great to finally be together again for our 25th Glastonwick beer, music, poetry and more beer Festival, delayed by two years due to Covid.
So how did it all begin? The story of Glastonwick is one of a simple, rather obvious but at the time pioneering idea, and this anniversary is a fitting opportunity to (briefly) tell it from the beginning…
In the mid ’90s I’d got fed up performing at great music festivals sponsored by the undrinkable corporate urine of Satan, and attending brilliant beer festivals where the “entertainment” consisted of a blues covers band with all the innovation and energy of a geriatric brontosaurus.
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