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‘Music is an area of life that should be free’
JANE WEAVER, headlining Hulls Substance Live festival next week, talks to Neil Mudd about the ups and downs of unshackling the chains of convention
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
“WHEN I was really little, I listened to The Bay City Rollers,” says Jane Weaver.
A surprising confession maybe but, then again, perhaps not. The Widnes-born artist's music picks over eccentric folk, psych, electronica, obscure East-European prog and space-rock.
She's top of the bill at Substance Live in Hull on Sunday week, during the 10-day festival of “music, art installations, performances and provocations” and her appearance comes on the back of Modern Kosmology, a heady brew of dreamy vocals, propulsive motorik rhythms and neo-komische loveliness.
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