ASH Smyth
Bio
ASH Smyth has written about music and the arts for The Oxford Times, The First Post, The Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today, whatsonstage.com, Guernica, Stop Smiling, and the Sri Lankan Sunday Times. He is the co-author (with Richard Suart) of They'd None of 'Em Be Missed, a potted history of WS Gilbert's "Little List".
Articles By ASH Smyth
latest in today
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Wigmore Hall review - a joy...
Nobody could deny that this was a weekend when we needed cheering up. The place for that was the...
The Murder Capital, QMU, Glasgow review - Dublin outfit find...
It might have been 24 hours after Valentine’s Day, but James McGovern still seemed to have a touch of romance in his head. At one stage during the...
Elysian Singers, SPCMH, Sam Laughton, St Luke’s, Chelsea rev...
In my reviewing for theartsdesk I like as much as...
Simon Evans, Blackheath Halls review - a big reveal worth wa...
Simon Evans is a comic known for pithy...
Album: Lanterns On The Lake - Spook The Herd
Spook The Herd concludes with “A Fitting End”. In a cracked, reflective voice, Hazel Wilde sings: “I want a door to the Nineties…what a...
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Honeycombs - Have I The Right? The C...
August and September 1964 were golden months for Pye Records....
The Visit, National Theatre review - star turn bolsters bagg...
Lesley Manville’s thrilling career ascent continues apace with The Visit, which marks American ...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 56: Kreator, Lee "Scratch" Pe...
Welcome to the biggest plastic reviews party on earth. Now that vinyl is steadily successful as niche musical medium, some have rightly been...
The Stranger, Netflix review - strong cast grapples with lab...
This eight-part mystery from Netflix is...
The High Table, Bush Theatre review - party on in Lagos and...
Queer people of colour face a double discrimination:...