Gerard Gilbert
Bio
Gerard has been a television critic and feature writer for the Independent since 1994. He has also written about TV and cinema for Time Out, The New Statesman and Radio Times.
Articles By Gerard Gilbert
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theartsdesk Radio Show 28 - Tony Allen tribute with guest St...
Peter Culshaw’s occasional global radio music show comes blinking into the light after lockdown, as MusicBox radio’s studio In London’s...
Dom Joly / Daniel Sloss, Brent Cross reviews - UK's fir...
It was a weary and frustrated Dom Joly (★★) who left the stage after performing the first drive-in...
Homemade review - laughs, loss and madness in lockdown
If COVID-19 isn’t the only topic being tackled by creative folk at the moment, it certainly feels like it. That’s perfectly understandable, when...
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Mike Hodges
Mike Hodges arrived in cinema through television, including a stint on the rightly revered Granada Television current affairs series World in...
Album: The Jayhawks - XOXO
If one song best captures the overall mood of XOXO, it's the Beatles-meets-country strains of "Living in a...
Classical music/Opera direct to home 19 – and two before a l...
It’s begun: very limited access to live music, the...
Les Blancs, National Theatre at Home review – triumphant rev...
Lorraine Hansberry’s debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, where it opened...
Back Roads review - nice cheekbones, not much else
Back Roads has languished largely unseen since its completion in 2017, and one can see why: lurid to the point of absurdity, this...
Family Romance, LLC review - the chameleon blues
Werner Herzog’s appearance in The Mandalorian paid for this deadpan,...