GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Roy Harper, Leeds Town Hall
Half a century on, the folk-rock veteran still knows how to connect with an audience
Voice of experience: Roy Harper
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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
THIS may be being promoted as Roy Harper’s farewell tour but it seems he’s already having second thoughts.
As the applause dies down at the end of the folk-rock musician’s set, he muses that he might continue playing live for as long as he can skip.
The Mancunian then gambols right off stage, his six-piece band looking expectantly at the wings for him to reappear. When they realise he's not coming back, they awkwardly shuffle after him.
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