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Andy Kershaw

Articles By Andy Kershaw

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

A Thousand Blows, Disney+ review - Peaky Blinders comes to R...

Steven Knight is beginning to resemble the British version of Taylor Sheridan. While Sheridan has been saturating our...

The Capulets and the Montagues, English Touring Opera, Hackn...

A year ago, after a deeply disappointing Manon Lescaut at Hackney Empire, I wrote here that English Touring Opera had often excelled in...

Hinds, St Lukes and the Winged Ox, Glasgow review - Spanish...

Hinds don't believe in God. They declared this as they surveyed the converted church that is St Luke's, and given the past few years you can...

Music Reissues Weekly: Diggin' For Gold Volume 14 - Nor...

In 1964, the Norwegian division of Philips Records began issuing singles labelled “Bergen Beat.” The picture sleeves of 45s by Davy Dean and the...

The Monkey review - a grisly wind-up

Longlegs’ trapdoor ending snapped tight on its clammy Lynchian mood, reconfiguring its Silence of the Lambs serial-killer yarn...

Richard II, Bridge Theatre review - handsomely mounted, emot...

Screen stardom is generally anointed at the box office so it's a very real delight to find the fast-rising Jonathan Bailey taking time out from...

Backstroke, Donmar Warehouse review - a complex journey thro...

The theatre director Anna Mackmin has...

Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, Whitechapel Gallery review -...

Donald Rodney’s most moving work is a photograph titled In the House of My Father, 1997 (main picture). Nestling in the...