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Album: Maverick Sabre - Don't Forget to Look Up
Michael Stafford aka Maverick Sabre is the definition of a modern journeyman vocalist. Since 2008 he’s released three albums and appeared on a...
Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal review – kora and cello...
Malian kora master Ballake Sissoko is a griot steeped in the musical and cultural traditions of...
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, Royal Academy review – a life...
Francis Bacon Man and Beast fills most of the main galleries at the Royal...
Ava: The Secret Conversations, Riverside Studios, Hammersmit...
“The penis. Have you or have you not discussed the penis?” The...
Final Account: Storyville, BBC Four review - confessions of...
Do we need another documentary about Nazi Germany? Yes, when it is...
Alan Carr, Milton Keynes Theatre review - comic keeps it rel...
Lots of stand-ups plunder their personal lives...
Album: Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Six months after the release of Common Ground, neo-proggers Big Big Train return with another...
The Responder, BBC One review - the loneliness of the long-d...
Cops on the box… don’t we just love ‘em? From Jimmy Perez and Ted Hastings to Inspector Reid from Ripper Street and Stella Gibson from...
Bournemouth SO, Karabits, Lighthouse, Poole review - go east...
Focusing on music composed in the former countries of the old...
Tessa Hadley: Free Love review - the Sixties, the suburbs an...
Free Love opens in 1967 and remains within that heady era throughout; no flashbacks, no spanning of generations as in Hadley's wonderful...