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‘Responsibility lies with us to inspire the youth’
Singer-songwriter WAYNE MURDOCH tells Neil Mudd what Thee Deadtime Philharmonic, one of the most politically acute bands around, are all about
Classy: Thee Deadtime Philharmonic
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
“RICHES from the earth” — E terra divitiæ — is the motto of the South Derbyshire town of Swadlincote, in recognition of the former mining community’s bounteous deposits of fireclay and coal.
Today, it’s a commuter town but there are still some riches to be found there, not least the band Thee Deadtime Philharmonic who appear at the Merthyr Rising festival later this month.
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