howard male
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Howard has written on music for the Independent, Songlines, The Word and other publications. He is also a musician and has just completed his first novel, Etc Etc Amen.
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Picnic at the Castle review - entertaining mixed bill
Of all the outdoor spaces being utilised to keep live performance going in this maddest of years, Warwick Castle is surely among the most striking...
Nocturnal review - an impossible love
The most painterly and ominous sequence in Nocturnal naturally occurs at night. Until recently strangers, 33-year-old Pete (Cosmo Jarvis...
Album: Alicia Keys - Alicia
Alicia Keys is a puzzling mixture. On the one hand she’s the hyper-achieving, multi-platinum, 752-Grammy-winning...
Rocks review - impressively well-crafted neo-realist drama
Rocks is a beautifully made slice of neo-realist filmmaking which deserves to get a wide audience but may well slip off the radar in the...
GogolFest:Dream review - the best music festival of the summ...
GogolFest:Dream in Kherson, somewhere near the Crimea in...
Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall/Hill Quartet, Bandstand Chamber Fes...
An early hero of lockdown, livestreaming from his Berlin home in terrible sound at first, Igor Levit is a supreme example of how adaptable...
The Devil All The Time review – a test of faith in a Souther...
There’s no denying the Faulknerian ambition to the construction of Anthony Campos’ latest feature Devil All the Time...
Eavesdropping on Rattle, the LSO and Bartók’s Bluebeard
One source of advance information told us to expect a reduced version of...
Album: Fish - Weltschmerz
"This party's over" snarls Fish on Weltschmerz, and, this time, it seems the big man really means...
Alban Gerhardt, Markus Becker, Wigmore Hall review - long sh...
It wouldn’t be true to say I’d forgotten what a solo cello in a...