Peter Culshaw
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- Bio
- Peter is a music and arts broadcaster and has written for the Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Songlines, among others in the UK and internationally. He has written a book for Serpent's Tail Clandestino: In Search Of Manu Chao to be published in May 2013 and has produced and compiled numerous CDs. He was a founding Director of theartsdesk, and is co-editor of the New Music section and Chair of the Editorial Board.
Articles by Peter Culshaw
Rod Stewart, O2 Arena
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
For certain types (yes, I was that serious-minded teenager) in the late Seventies Rod Stewart made a convenient hate figure – a coke-snorting dinosaur with interchangeable blondes on his arm who,... Read more... |
Extract: Mariachi, Machetes, Meths - Manu Chao in Mexico
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Lake Chapalá begins just south of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco. In case there’s any doubt we’re in Mexico, a mariachi band are propositioning the families who stroll along the waterfront and... Read more... |
Clandestino: In Search of Manu Chao
Sunday, 05 May 2013
Manu Chao isn’t exactly a household name in the UK. In much of Latin America and Europe, however, he’s an iconic figure who is probably the closest thing to Bob Marley there is, a symbol of hope for... Read more... |
theartsdesk in India: Endangered classical music, and aerialist dancers
Saturday, 13 April 2013
I hadn’t been through Mumbai (although lots of people there still call it Bombay) for a while – I once Iived in a beach house here for several months in Juhu while working on a fairly insane project... Read more... |
Interview: Hariharan
Friday, 12 April 2013
Hariharan gives the appearance at least of being fabulously laid-back when I meet him in the lobby of one of Mumbai’s top five star hotels. Wearing a jaunty hat, he is recognised by a lot of passers-... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Sinéad O'Connor
Saturday, 16 March 2013
The first thing to say about Sinéad O’Connor is that she has a voice like pure, running water and is a fabulous singer. She radiates a rare integrity and is unusually honest (often that gets her into... Read more... |
Kinoteka: The Polish Film Festival
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Over the last few years the Poles have been pumping money into the arts, partly as a way of branding the country (it works according to their research – many of us are now as likely to think of jazz... Read more... |
Wilko Johnson, Koko
Monday, 11 March 2013
What fire and grace on display last night at what he and we assume will be Wilko Johnson’s final London gig. It’s been a while since ticket touts were out in force outside one of his gigs (£200 for... Read more... |
Radio Rewrite, Royal Festival Hall: The Rock Review
Wednesday, 06 March 2013
Like a piece of conceptual art, it may be the idea rather than the actual music that is the most significant thing about the world premiere last night of Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite. There will... Read more... |
Manchester International Festival 2013 Preview
Friday, 01 March 2013
Yesterday Kenneth Branagh was thanking Manchester – saying that he felt he had “come of age” the previous time he had performed Shakespeare in the city 25 years ago, the audience being so “generous,... Read more... |
The Dark Side of the Moon: the Amazon Surf version
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
There are numerous tribute versions of The Dark Side of the Moon, by everybody from jazzers to electronica merchants, but the Amazon Surf version must be the most esoteric. Amazon Surf music is... Read more... |
Interview: Bassekou Kouyaté, Mali maestro
Sunday, 17 February 2013
A couple of weeks ago on BBC’s Question Time one of the pundits airily commented that until recently no-one in the audience would have heard of Bamako, the capital of Mali. That wouldn’t be the case... Read more... |
The Sound and the Fury, BBC Four
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
As Julian Lloyd Webber combatively suggests of certain strands of 20th-century music: “Let’s make a noise no one likes. If the audience likes it, you have failed as a composer.” In general... Read more... |
Neither God nor Devil: The long dance between Technology and Music
Thursday, 03 January 2013
David Byrne's new book How Music Works has once again brought to the fore the ever thorny debate about the relationship between technology and music. The dance between the two is being conducted at... Read more... |
CD of the Year: Samuel Yirga - Guzo
Monday, 31 December 2012
This is both a bang up-to-the-minute album, but also a throwback to the glory days of Ethiopian jazz in the late 1960s and 1970s - an era excavated with loving care over the last 15 years by Francis... Read more... |
Global Music: The Best of 2012
Sunday, 30 December 2012
For years there have been pundits predicting that just as our high street restaurants and football teams represent a much more globalised world, surely pop music would follow suit. Fifteen years ago... Read more... |
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How to contact Peter Culshaw
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