GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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'If you fight you might lose, but if you don’t fight you’ll certainly lose'
Musicians should bear Bob Crow's words in mind as they face up to a tough struggle defending jobs and working conditions, says BEN LUNN
LOOKING FOR POSITIVES: Ben Lunn (left)
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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
WE IN the in the Musicians’ Union (MU) find ourselves facing bleak conclusions when it comes to the state of things — they are not good but it’s not like we have any other choice.
That bleakness is underlined by the prospect of an industrial nightmare ahead of us, with the West End dropping musicians for the sake of profits, education being cut by 50 per cent and gigs still being a tentative dream because of the pandemic.
So how on earth do we remedy this? What can be done?
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