DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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ANDREW McCORMACK tells Chris Searle he believes music is powerful and his place in the world is to use it for good
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
AT the age of seven, the mum of London-born Andrew McCormack insisted that he learn the piano that they had at home.
The lessons didn’t last, but at 13 he became “more curious” about the piano, “then slightly obsessed by it.”
When his dad brought home a vinyl Columbia jazz sampler he put on So What, the first track from the epochal Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue.
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