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WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Music to any revolutionary's ears
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
I’m in the studio at the moment with my band Barnstormer, recording our new album Restoration Tragedy, which you can check out here.
We aim to bring not just ancient instruments to life but also a number of characters from that tumultuous period in our history when “the world turned upside down” after the execution of Charles I in January 1649 and, for a time, real fundamental social change looked on the cards until Cromwell’s Grandees, who had taken power for their own ends, suppressed the radical elements in the New Model Army.
Instrument-wise, we have a fine selection — crumhorn, cornamuse, bombarde, shawm, rauschpfeife (a really loud bastard) mandocello and a host of more modern stuff like fiddle, viola, mandola, and, of course, a rock n roll backline.
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The bard ditches an unspecial relationship, encounters a new subdivision of metal, and discovers the cure for a stiff neck
