RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Live Music Review: Laibach
Everyone's favourite tongue-in-cheek totalitarians are as full-on as ever
Great helmsman: Laibach's Milan Fras
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Laibach
Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
LAIBACH are currently touring off the back of Liberation Day, the acclaimed documentary — or should that be mockumentary? — about the group’s gig in North Korea which made them the first Western band to perform in the country.
The gig in three parts start with a special screening of a film which offers a hugely entertaining window into the various ups and downs the group faced trying to navigate the country’s notoriously bureaucratic systems.
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