ASH Smyth
Bio
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
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The House of Shades, Almeida Theatre review - Anne-Marie Duf...
Anne-Marie Duff blazes across the stage like a meteorite in Beth Steel’s excoriating drama about the changes sweeping through a Northern mining...
Grease, Dominion Theatre review - a super night out, great s...
Barry Gibb was at the considerable peak of his era-defining songwriting powers when he provided the song that played over the opening titles of...
Tallies, Old Blue Last review - Canadian quintet rejuvenates...
Toronto’s Tallies have acknowledged their fondness for Aztec...
The Essex Serpent, Apple TV+ review - tradition and supersti...
Sarah Perry’s 2016 bestseller The Essex Serpent has been described as “a novel of ideas”, which almost sounds like a warning to anybody...
Charli XCX, O2 Academy, Glasgow review - sweat-drenched pop...
“This town makes me sweat”, declared Charlotte Aitchison at one point in this set, as she took a brief breather between songs. The 29-year-old...
Vortex review – an old couple's road to nowhere
Life, opined Thomas Hobbes, is “nasty, brutish, and short”. In...
Album: Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel
Since their 2010 debut, Man Alive, Everything Everything have dissected the various structures of human relationships, from socio-...
The Great Escape 2022, Brighton review - sunshine, queues, a...
My friend George claims to have nightmares about The Great Escape. In them he’s standing in an endless queue, never reaching the front, never...
The Breach, Hampstead Theatre review - profoundly uncomforta...
Jude is the kind of girl that no-one would want to mess with – she can dance like a demon to Eric Clapton, skewer an ego in seconds and hit an...