CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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In praise of the inimitable Muddy Summers & the Dirty Field Whores and Tony Stowers
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
IT’S hardly surprising given the length of time I’ve been Attila that I know one hell of a lot of poets and musicians, and it is always a special pleasure when people I like and respect as human beings also come up with great work.
Gail Something-Else has been an inspiration for years with the yearly series of festivals she organises and, latterly, her Field Me initiative to help people in our community whose financial and cultural lives have been turned upside down by the absence of live gigs.
Now she and her band, Muddy Summers & the Dirty Field Whores, have come up with an absolute stonker of a new album, recorded in their individual homes during lockdown and stitched together in the space of two weeks.
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