DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Marxist notes on Music: April 18, 2023
BEN LUNN pleads for a more visionary agenda than simply resisting cuts
William Morris aged 53; The Manifesto of the Socialist League, 1884
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STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
DECISIONS have been made, things are in transit again, and on the outside, it looks like major victories have been won for musicians in Britain.
On April 13, following the pausing of the closure of the BBC Singers, it was announced the BBC is changing its forced cuts to the English BBC Orchestras.
This coincided with an announcement from English National Opera (ENO) which has secured £24 million from the Arts Council England (ACE), with the vision of potentially moving ENO to far flung regions — like Croydon.
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