Barney Harsent
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Writer, editor, and author of Music Top 10s (Bounty), Barney is a music and television fanatic. He also hosts a radio show on boxfrequency.fm, and is a surprisingly capable barman.
Articles By Barney Harsent
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Cate Haste: Passionate Spirit - The Life of Alma Mahler revi...
Charismatic, full of vital elan to the end, inconsistent, fitfully creative, a casually anti-semitic Conservative Catholic married to two of the...
Reissue CDs Weekly: R.E.M.
In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 was issued by Warner Bros. in October 2003. Hitting shops in time for Xmas, it...
CD: Willie Nelson – Ride Me Back Home
Willie’s new album opens with the singer calling out to all the tired old horses saved from the knackers and put out to pasture. It’s...
Franco Zeffirelli: 'I had this feeling that I was speci...
"I am amazed to be still alive. Two hours of medieval torment.”...
Diego Maradona review - entertaining but skin-deep
There's something unsatisfying about the fact that Asif Kapadia's new...
Men in Black: International review - lacklustre sequel missi...
The best joke in Men in Black: International happens before the film starts, when the iconic Columbia Pictures lady in a toga whips out a...
Roger Wright on Oliver Knussen: ‘his challenge to us all to...
The composition course founded more than 25 years ago at Snape by composers Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews is in full swing. The scene is the...
Francis Bacon: Couplings, Gagosian Gallery review - sex and...
Forthright and often disturbing, Francis Bacon’s...