CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Dan Woods, musician and painter
Dan Woods
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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
DAN WOODS, the guitarist in my band Barnstormer for over 20 years and one of the most gentle, intelligent and talented people I have ever met, died during the night of January 6-7 aged 61 after four years battling cancer. We are all absolutely gutted. His funeral is tomorrow, Wednesday February 22.
Dan loved playing music and painting, was stupendously good at both and, as you can see from the photo atop the page taken by his great friend Mel Owen, was a very good-looking bloke.
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