MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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London April 2020
Haunting images of the capital in lockdown
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
IT’S difficult not to think of the 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later when looking at the images of London in the early stages of lockdown framed by photographer Mike Goldwater.
The eerie emptiness of the city in the opening sequences of that film — which centres on the breakdown of society following the accidental release of a highly contagious virus — have an echo in the striking filmed images he took while cycling around the city.
They are, he says, a “creative response to the lockdown” and were inspired by a film made by friends of drifting in real-time along the river Stour in Kent by canoe. “I thought a ride through empty London filmed from my bike might work as well.”
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