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GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Succour from A Northern Soul
Singer-songwriter Joe Solo's inspired new album is a musical and political shot in the arm during troubling times
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
LOCKDOWN has tested so many people in so many different ways and we all have our stories to tell.
For those of us who are performers, used to spending weeks on the road every year spreading the word to live audiences and doing our best to help those who need it, things have been really difficult and we have had to learn new ways to reach out — I know I have.
Over the past year, some absolute heroes have emerged in the radical DIY music scene and, for me and so many others, head and shoulders above them all has been the inspirational Joe Solo.
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