howard.male
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Howard has written on music for the Independent, Songlines, The Word and other publications. He is also a musician and has just completed his first novel, Etc Etc Amen.
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The staggering musical talent of Citizen has become more and more apparent with each album they have released, and Halcyon Blues …
Tom Holland is 30 now, and after a decade in the role his boyish Spider-Man muscularly comes of age in this fourth solo outing. A montage…
“She said her life was like a motorway… dull, grey, and long.” The lyrics of “Like a Motorway,” from Saint Etienne’s February 1994 album…
What can you do with lots of big sheets of white paper, three rolls of Sellotape and a couple of torches? These are items from the “props…
Attending the tale of Sweeney Todd was my introduction to musical theatre. I was in my early 20s and a friend of mine had invited me to the…
Is this the near-future? The premise of Ann Droid is that in place of our over-stretched social services, before long we may find ourselves…
Saxophobia: Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s Chad Smith (alto and C-melody saxophones), Sinfonia of London/John Wilson (…
The only break in the flow comes just before the last song, “Toppling.” There’s a need to tune the guitar, so what – until this point – is…
These days, Alfie Agnew is a Maths professor at California State University Fullerton. Back in the 1980s, however, he was singer and…
It’s a sobering thought that had Marianela Nuñez joined the Paris Opéra Ballet at 16 instead of the Royal Ballet, she would have been…