MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
Latest editorial
Album reviews with Will Stone
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
THE RESIDENTS
Metal, Meat And Bone
(Cherry Red)
★★★★
SAN FRAN art group The Residents return with possibly their most important homage to date.
Known for paying conceptual tribute over the years to giants like The Beatles and Elvis, this time the faceless oddballs — or should we say eyeballs — have released a fitting eulogy to long-lost Louisiana bluesman Alvin "Dyin' Dog" Snow.
Similar stories
Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year
