GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
‘You have to embrace the unknown’
Jazz saxophonist TRISH CLOWES tells Chris Searle why she and her band My Iris are so open to experiment
Lung-power: Trish Clowes in action
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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
“A TON of ideas for new tunes,” was one of the positives of Trish Clowes’s 2017 tour with her band My Iris.
Those tunes are there on her fifth album Ninety Degrees Gravity, the result of “a lot of back and forth” between her and guitarist Chris Montague, drummer James Maddren and Ross Stanley on piano and organ. “We allow the music to evolve, there’s so much scope for different sound-worlds,” she says.
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