CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Good on Glastonbury
Catering for all tastes, mainstream and minority, is what makes the festival special. And, if you’re lucky, you’ll get a loving cup
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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
IT’S Glastonbury next weekend. I won’t be there and it’s fine. After the absolute honour of being invited to perform at 26 consecutive festivals dating back to the early 1980s, I wasn’t on the bill in 2017 and I’m not included this year.
It’s absolutely right that old gits like me make way for the new generation and if the line-up was the same as it was in 1983 I’m sure many people would be very disappointed!
I’d like to wish organisers Haggis, Charlotte, Helen and the team and all those performing in my old stomping grounds — the Cabaret Marquee and the Poetry & Words Tent — a happy, healthy and above all DRY festival.
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