MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Innovative presence on the British jazz scene BINKER GOLDING talks to Chris Searle about his new album
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
NORTH Londoner Binker Golding’s early love for music had a somewhat serendipitous beginning. “I was initially interested in playing guitar but it was forbidden by my parents because of its association with rock music which I was, and am, heavily into,” the north Londoner tells me.
“At the local music school they only had space for a saxophone or violin student. So I chose saxophone out of a process of elimination.”
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