Barney Harsent
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Copywriter, editor, and author of Music Top 10s (Bounty), Barney is a music fanatic. He is the former host of Back and to the Left, his radio show on boxfrequency.fm, and is a surprisingly capable barman.
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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...
Grand Theft Hamlet review - intriguing documentary about Sha...
On July 4, 2022, one of the most unusual performances in Hamlet’s lengthy and much travelled CV took place: an in-game stream...
Nightbitch review - Mother's life as a dog
Rachel Yoder says she wrote her debut novel Nightbitch as a reaction to Donald Trump’s first term as President, with what she saw as its...
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Payal Kapadia on 'All We...
Payal Kapadia’s lyrical fiction feature debut...
Giltburg, Bournemouth SO, Wigglesworth, Portsmouth Guildhall...
A time must come again when British orchestras return to complete Tchaikovsky ballet scores in concert, as in the BBC glory days of the great...
Rumours review - pallid satire on geopolitics
It must have seemed such a delicious premise – a Buñuel-esque comedy about world leaders trapped at a luxury retreat as the apocalypse...
Album: Duster - In Dreams
There’s a lot of anger at algorithm-driven music discovery around – a lot of it justified, as the big platforms push the already-big acts and...
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review - mordant seriocomedy about...
The writer-director of 2017’s I Am Not a Witch, Rungano Nyoni, has come up with another scorcher, this time taking aim at...
Ricky Gervais, Touring review - new show, not-so new gags
Ricky Gervais begins by bringing us up to date with the latest “outrage” he has caused; two Netflix specials, SuperNature and...
Katy J Pearson, Saint Luke's and the Winged Ox, Glasgow...
'Tis the season for all manner of bugs, colds and illnesses. One had befallen Katy J Pearson, who struck an apologetic note after the night’s...