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Live Music Review: ESG, Brudenell Social Club
First heard in the early 1980s, ESG's clatter-funk still sounds like the future
Volcanic: ESG
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
ESG
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
BILLED as their last-ever appearance in Britain, this gig features ESG founder member Renee Scroggins, who shouldn’t even be here. She’s under heavy orders not to fly after a near-fatal pulmonary incident last year.
Now pushing 60, she still has the vim which propelled her and her two Bronx sisters Marie and Valerie and neighbourhood friend Tito Libran to create the defining sound of New York in the early 1980s.
Tonight she’s joined by daughter Nicole on bass and son Nicholas on percussion and, along with hyperactive drummer David Miles, they summon a volcanic groove.
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