It takes a village to raise a song
A band formed through Skype rehearsals release their debut.
Summer and Smoke sizzles with spectacular sentiment in stunning revival
Rebecca Frecknall directs a winning revival of one of Tennessee WIlliams’ lesser-known plays
Life, Death, and Theatre with the Ekdahls
The stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s semi-autobiographical work “weaves new patterns”.
David Byrne is far too happy for my liking
David Byrne returns after a long hiatus, but his effort is a bit too twee.
There’s Too Many Man, Too Many Many Man!
In the wake of International Women’s Day, Music Editor Andy Djaba discusses the unfortunate prevalence of misogyny in hip-hop.
In the eye of the beholder: the male gaze in visual art
An exploration of contemporary women artists resisting and subverting the status quo
Dispatches from the VAULT Festival
London’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival takes place in the vaults below Waterloo station. Packed with independent theatre and music, the festival, on until March 18th, is an opportunity to see reasonably priced innovative productions you wouldn’t find anywhere else. Arts editor Jingie Cheng reports on the
Deterred by Beckett’s infamous motormouth? Not I.
Tourettes hero Jess Thom gives Beckett’s notoriously difficult motormouth in Not I a personal and political spin.
Ben Whishaw delivers layered performance as Brutus
Innovative staging, classic rock and modern costuming, makes The Bridge’s adaptation an unique experience.
A brief, mostly wrong history of punk rock, part II
The saga continues, covering ‘76 to the mid-90s or so. Stay tuned for Part III, where I’ll wrap this shit up.
Mark Dion – theatre of the natural world brings the Thames beaches to the Whitechapel Gallery
Something of a hit and miss, a retrospective of Mark Dion’s work is most successful when it embraces the realities of nature.
King Gizz are exactly as you’d expect: fucking great
The queue looped around two corners as fans waited eagerly to pass beneath the dome of the O2 Academy Brixton. Spanning the readergraph above them hailed the cause: Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Performing their only London show in the support of the immense five albums they