GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Point Blank by Tony Kofi and the Organisation
Protean saxophonist Tony Kofi delivers another winner
Ever-active: Tony Kofi
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
ON POINT Blank Tony Kofi is joined by The Organisation, specialists in soul, jazz and funk. His pulsating baritone saxophone rocks the grooves of the album, with organist Pete Whittaker, guitarist Simon Fernsby and drummer Peter Cater contributing to the rhythmic impetus.
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