MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Wow-factor from wonderful wizard of Os Mutantes and crew
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
Os Mutantes
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
SERGIO DIAS has bronchitis, the result of a flu jab before flying to Britain with Os Mutantes, the band he formed with his older brother and a girlfriend in the 1960s.
He waves it away. “I’ve been sick before,” he tells the audience in Leeds. “Let’s have some fun.”
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