MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Neil Mudd's live music of the year
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
I'VE particularly enjoyed the succession of beautifully curated musical events in Hull this year. Of these, Mind On the Run, a three-day celebration of composer Basil Kirchin back in February gave me most pleasure.
The opportunity to hear free jazz pioneer Evan Parker play from Worlds Within Worlds accompanied by full symphony orchestra is reason enough, but Sean O’Hagan’s opening night appearance was bottled lightning.
When the chief High Llama was joined onstage by Jane Weaver for I Start Counting, Kirchin’s haunting title theme to the “lost” Jenny Agutter thriller, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.
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