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ASH Smyth has written about music and the arts for The Oxford Times, The First Post, The Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today, whatsonstage.com, Guernica, Stop Smiling, and the Sri Lankan Sunday Times. He is the co-author (with Richard Suart) of They'd None of 'Em Be Missed, a potted history of WS Gilbert's "Little List".

Articles By ASH Smyth

The Three Musketeers (3D)

Wednesday, 12 October 2011 Read more...

Snoop Dogg, O2 Arena

Saturday, 08 October 2011 Read more...

House, Season 8, Sky1

Friday, 07 October 2011 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Actor Paul Bettany

Friday, 30 September 2011 Read more...

The Debt

Thursday, 29 September 2011 Read more...

The Good The Bad/ The Cut Outs/ Peter Parker's Rock'n'Roll Club, Madame JoJo's

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Read more...

Fry's Planet Word, BBC Two

Monday, 26 September 2011 Read more...

Mademoiselle Chambon

Friday, 23 September 2011 Read more...

Spooks, Series 10, BBC One

Monday, 19 September 2011 Read more...

Gary Numan, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

Sunday, 18 September 2011 Read more...

Q&A Special: Bass Sir John Tomlinson, Part 2

Sunday, 18 September 2011 Read more...

Q&A Special: Bass Sir John Tomlinson, Part 1

Saturday, 17 September 2011 Read more...

Misfits: Vegas Baby!, 4oD

Thursday, 15 September 2011 Read more...

DVD: A Very British Coup

Monday, 12 September 2011 Read more...

The Children of 9/11, Channel 4

Monday, 12 September 2011 Read more...

QI, BBC Two

Saturday, 10 September 2011 Read more...

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I first came across Rachel Jones in 2021 at the Hayward Gallery’s painting show Mixing it Up: Painting Today. I was blown away by the...

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Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in their old age. These...

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The King of Pangea, King's Head Theatre review - grief...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new...

Album: Sam Binga - Sam Binga Presents Club Orthodontics

When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which...