MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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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
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
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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