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Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review - a perfo...
This greatest of symphonies starts with what’s plausibly described as arrhythmia of the heart, so it shouldn’t have been surprising to find my own...
Blu-ray: The Cat and the Canary (1939) / The Ghost Breakers...
Paramount added a late “old dark house” mystery comedy to Hollywood’s annus mirabilis of 1939 by teaming Bob Hope with Paulette...
Album: We Were Promised Jetpacks - A Complete One-Eighty
We Were Promised Jetpacks is a band name that seems off the cuff at first glance. This could be said for the Scottish...
Three Minutes: A Lengthening review - superb portrait of a v...
We hear the projector whirr as the mute 16mm film flows through the sprockets and on to the screen. For three minutes and a little longer we watch...
Music Reissues Weekly: Trevor Beales - Fireside Stories
When Trevor Beales’s band Havana Lake released their only album in 1977, it was on a label which also issued records by The Ryman Country Band,...
Directors the Dardenne brothers: 'To be living means to...
Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have made their home region of Liège the site of excruciating moral crises and crushing injustice....
Manchester Collective String Orchestra, RNCM, Manchester rev...
Manchester Collective’s string orchestra programme, opening last night at the Royal Northern College of Music and touring to the South Bank, Leeds...
Best of Enemies, Noel Coward Theatre review - opposites attr...
Opposition (and history) are the apparent mainstays of the ceaselessly busy...
Album: Camilla Pisani - Phant[as]
Want an antidote so forced seasonal cheer and the catchiness of Christmas pop? How about some almost entirely atonal...
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Album: We Were Promised Jetpacks - A Complete One-Eighty
Scottish Indie-rockers push tracks from previous album in new directions
Music Reissues Weekly: Trevor Beales - Fireside Stories
Belated recognition for previously obscure Seventies Hebden Bridge troubadour