Liz Thomson
Bio
Liz Thomson has maintained a dual career, chronicling the international publishing industry while also writing arts journalism for newspapers and magazines around the world. The author of a number of critical anthologies on music and popular culture, she is a frequent broadcaster and moderator at literary festivals. Liz is the co-founder of the folk music charity Square Roots Productions and, in New York, of The Village Trip, a festival celebrating the history and heritage of Greenwich Village. The Village Trip takes place this year from 26-29 September in venues in and around Washington Square Park. More information: www.TheVillageTrip.com
Articles By Liz Thomson
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A History of Water in the Middle East, Royal Court review -...
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British identity in various formats. Her work includes poetry,...
LFF 2019: The Irishman review - masterful, unsentimental gan...
Time passes slowly and remorselessly in The Irishman. Though its much remarked de-ageing technology...
Verdi Requiem, LPO, Gardner, RFH review – beyond the big noi...
You seldom expect to feel the breath of apocalypse and the terror of the grave amid the modestly rationalist architecture and passion-killer...
CD: James Arthur - You
It’s an easy joke to suggest that James Arthur needs an editor. By this point, the 31-year-old singer is almost as...
Thomas J Campanella: Brooklyn - The Once and Future City rev...
For visitors to New York, it’s all about Manhattan, its 23...
Great Women Artists review - the book we have been waiting f...
Every now and then a book comes out that can change lives. If a survey like this had appeared when I was a student at the Slade, the struggle to...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Dip - Ḣ-Camp Meets Lo-Fi
The temptation with the 20th anniversary reissue of Ḣ-Camp Meets Lo-Fi (Explosion Picture Score) is to look for traces...
Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes, BBC Four review - a perfec...
If there was ever a documentary that needed you...
Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre review - break, break, breaking...
True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake your body and then give you a parting kick in...
PP Arnold, Islington Assembly Hall review - joy in a consumm...
“I had my first inter-racial relationship.” Moments after walking on stage and before the first song, PP Arnold is reminiscing about when she...