Jenny Gilbert
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Album: Gary Barlow - Music Played By Humans
Gary Barlow’s Music Played By Humans is, in all but name, a Christmas album. Mixing big-band jazz, Latin and pop, it’s an assortment box...
Hillbilly Elegy review - misery in the heartland
Published in June 2016, J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy became a best-seller around the time of that November’s presidential...
Album: Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays
During the first lockdown in March, Green Day’s Billie Joe...
Extract: 'On Loneliness' by Fatimah Asghar, from...
The infamous border wall. Prolonged detention. Children in cages. Even as Biden's election promises a sea change in...
The Seven Deadly Sins, Opera North online review - viscerall...
Theatres are currently banned from moving scenery and props about on stage and you might expect this to present a major obstacle to a production...
Ariodante, Royal Opera online review – stylish, but confined
“After black and gloomy night, the sun shines all the brighter,” sings hero Ariodante after a life-threatening bout of jealousy nearly scuppers a...
‘Our whole industry is supported by vulnerable freelance cre...
I am not the first to say this, and I won’t be the last, but what a strange year 2020 has become! I am learning afresh what it is to be both a...
Arena - Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat, BBC Two review - the...
There have been Felabrations, stage musicals, bands featuring his sons Seun and Femi that have continued the legacy. There has been the slew of re...