Tim Cumming
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Articles by Tim Cumming
Eska/Spiro, The Foundling Museum
Sunday, 12 May 2013
There have been memorable nights at the Foundling Museum recently, with Alasdair Roberts delivering a superb solo show in April, while on Friday the Nest Collective hosted a double bill of Zimbabwean... Read more... |
Buika and London Lucumi Choir, Union Chapel
Monday, 22 April 2013
The choir sing off stage at first, under the wide arch to the side before filling the platform and singing the praises of Cuba’s Orisha spirits. Those Orisha guys must be shining like beads on a... Read more... |
Matthew Halsall/Zara McFarlane, Ronnie Scott's
Friday, 25 January 2013
Fronting her four piece band - pianist Peter Edwards and saxophonist Binker Golding among them - the young jazz/soul singer Zara McFarlane performs a mix of new songs and tunes from her album, Until... Read more... |
William Burroughs: All Out Of Time and Into Space, October Gallery
Monday, 10 December 2012
October Gallery first mounted a show of William Burroughs’ paintings in 1988, soon after the writer had published The Western Lands, the last novel in his final trilogy. More books would come – on... Read more... |
The Story of Charlie Is My Darling
Monday, 26 November 2012
There’s a shot of the six of them running across a railway line in Belfast, running for their lives, Brian Jones at the rear, "Satisfaction" at the top of the charts, and there he is, the one who set... Read more... |
Van Morrison, Sligo Live
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Sligo Live is Europe’s most westerly music festival, and its mix of indie and traditional is unique. For four nights and days, cracking traditional players fill the town’s many excellent pubs -... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Todd Snider
Saturday, 24 March 2012
He has been called “America’s sharpest musical storyteller” by Rolling Stone, and has enough talent to give Bob Dylan’s talking blues a run for their money. The East Nashville-based singer-songwriter... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Khartoum: English folk songs in Sudan
Sunday, 20 November 2011
I’m stood in the dusk in front of the tomb of Sheikh Hamid al-Nil as the sun sets on Khartoum, reddening in the exhaust-filled air as it deflates over a receding jumble of low-rise blocks... Read more... |
Q&A Special: Musician Mary Gauthier
Tuesday, 03 May 2011
The Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury preserves the story of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Thomas Coram, the artist Hogarth and the composer Handel. At the end of April, American... Read more... |
theartsdesk at the Gnawa Festival, Essaouira
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Come the end of June in Essaouira on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, up to half a million festival-goers team the narrow, traffic-free streets of the medina, its two huge open squares, and numerous... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Mark E Smith
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Since releasing their first record, Bingo Masters Breakout, Mark E Smith (b 1957) has led The Fall through some of rock music’s most extreme and enthralling terrain, cutting a lyrical and musical... Read more... |
The Metal Machine Trio, Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
A great wall of noise greets the audience as it settles in to the Royal Festival Hall - the sound of some heavy outer planet’s radio frequency, a subtly oscillating drone that recalls NASA’s... Read more... |
Jackie Oates, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Last night's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony was a surprisingly glitzy affair at the Brewery, near the Barbican in London. Winners included Bellowhead for Best Live Act and Lau for Best Group. Steve... Read more... |
