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Chris T-T tracks two decades of political protest
Susan Darlington reviews Chris T-T: Best Of (Xtra Mile Recordings)
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
“HAVE you ever seen a single person change his mind?” asks Chris T-T in his song Preaching to the Converted. It’s a question that every single protest singer must have pondered but not many would have the humour and courage to voice in public.
The London-based musician returns to that quandary on the jaunty indie of Love Me, I’m a Liberal but, despite his self-awareness, he keeps returning to the broad theme of political protest over these two discs.
Serendipitously starting his career in the year Tony Blair came to power, Best Of spans T-T’s 20th anniversary and brings together favourites and studio rarities that cover his 10 solo albums.
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