CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Good weird, batshit weird, brilliance a-plenty
Good weird, batshit weird, brilliance a-plenty
All the 129 tracks on Miniatures 2020 come in at less than a minute and many are magnificently memorable
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
IN 1981, I was invited to join the pioneering, category-busting and extremely eclectic independent label Cherry Red Records and, once signed, was invited into the despatch department to take my pick of anything in their back catalogue.
It was thus that I got hold of a copy of Miniatures, a compilation LP put together by former Mott The Hoople keyboard player and Cherry Red collaborator Morgan Fisher, released a year before. A vast number of luminaries had contributed 51 tracks, all under a minute in length.
Some of it was great, some weird but the album was unique and memorable and therefore brilliant.
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