Guy Oddy
Bio
Guy has been a regular New Music album and gig (and very occasionally Film and Theatre) reviewer for theartsdesk since 2013. He is also works as the Development Officer at B:Music, raising money for community, education and capital projects at Birmingham's Town Hall and Symphony Hall. Guy first had a music review published while he was a student at Manchester Polytechnic, when Spacemen 3 visited the Hacienda in 1989 to lay down their trippy psychedelia for an appreciative but not especially large audience. Since then, he has written for a number of publications (some of which have long-since disappeared), including Pulp, Beat Mag and the i newspaper.
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Outside, this imagined world has collapsed, a few survivors of the flashes of two bombs scratching a living from a landscape that Mad Max…
So the tune we'll discuss today in the imaginary seminar that occupies a certain part of my brain is…."When Jah Come" by Devon Irons (…
As the title of her fourth album suggests, South Carolina blues-rocker Hannah Wicklund is not happy. There’s a tangled yarn behind these…
Interspersal programmes – or “mind melds”, as I like to call them – can sometimes open up new vistas of listening and sometimes be…
Dracula: Lucy's Dream, Pleasance at EICC ★★★★If something’s scary, it’s usually because you know it’s a threat, and that it might cause you…
God Bless The Band feels like an unexpected encounter with your younger self. Compiling tracks from across Courteeners’ career, the…
Where the US President chose to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of his country with a cage fight, the BBC stuck to music in this…
QFWFQ, Summerhall ★★★★At first glance, an iconic post-modern novel (or, perhaps more accurately, "novel") by Italo Calvino might not seem…
Squint and you could be in 1968 - although this lot are rather better dressed and healthier than most hippies. I did see a bumper sticker “…
Joan Littlewood’s stage production of Oh! What a Lovely War was a huge success when premiered at Stratford East in 1963. Loosely based on a…