Howard Male
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- Bio
- 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.
Articles by Howard Male
DVD: The Servant/Accident
Friday, 05 April 2013
These two 1960s movies have more than just their director, Joseph Losey, and their writer, Harold Pinter, in common. They also both star Dirk Bogarde, escaping his matinee idol mould to... Read more... |
David Bowie Is, Victoria & Albert Museum
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
How much more of a melancholy experience walking round this exhibition would have been if its subject hadn’t just sprung a new album on us that’s so suffused with energy and life. It’s meant that the... Read more... |
Salif Keita, Royal Festival Hall
Thursday, 14 February 2013
The only time the great Malian singer spoke at any length to last night’s audience was when he said, “I don’t know my birthday. I don’t know the day or the year. So any day can be my birthday. So can... Read more... |
CD: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
With BBC Four currently mourning the passing of the LP, it’s encouraging that some artists still like to confine themselves to the format’s time limitations and its implicit requirement that the... Read more... |
Sahara Soul, Barbican Hall
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Bassekou Kouyaté’s ngoni looks like a real bugger to play. Its hollow body is the size and shape of a child’s cricket bat and its rounded fretless neck is thinner than that of a broomstick. It’s a... Read more... |
CD of the Year: Tiger Cats - Isle of Dogs
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
How does one choose just one favourite album of the year? Should it be the one that knocked you for six on a first hearing, the one that you admired rather than loved but nevertheless admired an... Read more... |
Lives in Music #2: How Music Works by David Byrne
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Reading How Music Works feels a bit like breaking into David Byrne’s house and randomly nosing around the Word files on his computer. First there’s some stuff about whether specific types of music... Read more... |
DVD: Peep Show - Series 8
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
I suspect that this cruel, clever sitcom is more loved by men than women, because what woman really wants to delve this deeply into the murky pool of the unreconstructed male psyche? But after a... Read more... |
Let’s Wrestle, Tigercats, Omi Palone, The Lexington
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Twenty-first century rock bands have a problem, and it’s a problem that they’ve had for decades: how to stay focused on the rebel oomph of distorted guitars, rudimentary drumming, sorting-out-... Read more... |
CD: The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age
Sunday, 25 November 2012
It might have looked good on paper; the best of Bryan Ferry revisited in a 1920s swing jazz style. But in practice, rather than reveal previously unrecognised properties of some of the most haunting... Read more... |
Krystle Warren, Soho Theatre
Thursday, 08 November 2012
The last time we reviewed Krystle Warren on theartsdesk one reader responded by suggesting that it couldn’t be long before this Missouri-born singer-songwriter was as big as Beyonce (although he didn... Read more... |
Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life, More4
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Perhaps only someone as supremely confident of his world view as Richard Dawkins might think he could come up with a TV series that would live up to such an all-embracing title. But at least in this... Read more... |
Mama Rosin, Jazz Café
Sunday, 14 October 2012
For several years now this Swiss trio have been combining their love of old Cajun and Zydeco tunes with an arthouse-meets-punk aesthetic strongly influenced by the Velvet Underground and The Clash.... Read more... |
The Marc Bolan 35th Memorial Concert, Shepherd's Bush Empire
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Marc Bolan’s voice was as inseparable from his songs as the sheen and shimmer of one of his Biba satin jackets was inseparable from the jacket itself. That unique faux-posh phrasing, singing... Read more... |
Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery, BBC Three
Friday, 17 August 2012
Because Brand has become something of a brand – the hair, the clothes, the pantomime gait, the post-Carry On banter – he can be hard to take seriously. Nevertheless, I’ve been an admirer since his... Read more... |
CD: Alhousseini Anivolla - Anewal/The Walking Man
Thursday, 09 August 2012
The North African desert blues, as played by Tuareg musicians like Tinariwen, may well be the most popular kind of “world music” amongst mainstream rock fans since South African township jive post-... Read more... |
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