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
A simple twist of fate - how a chance encounter with 'J...
We’ve all spent time considering our desert island discs, which is of course why the programme Roy Plomley devised one winter’s night in 1942 is...
Batwoman, E4 review - can Bruce Wayne's female cousin f...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been saturating the globe with its multi-format superheroes, leaving its DC rival looking clumsy and...
Le nozze di Figaro, Garsington Opera, OperaVision review - n...
Only the birds will be singing at country opera houses around the UK this...
Michelle Wolf: Joke Show, Netflix review - edgy and original...
Michelle Wolf, best known to UK audiences as the comic who upset ...
Sam Bourne: To Kill a Man review – the woman who fought back
Assassinate the President! Obliterate history by torching libraries and murdering historians! Crazy leaders and fake news are just a few of the...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Recording Is The Trip - The Karen Dalton...
“My favorite in the place was Karen Dalton. She was a tall white blues singer and guitar player, funky, lanky and sultry. Karen had a voice like...
DVD: Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 2
The Children’s Film Foundation began life in 1950, its brief to provide wholesome home-grown entertainment for Saturday morning cinema audiences....
Rock ‘n’ Roll Island: Where Legends Were Born, BBC Four revi...
“Friday night is Amami night” – that was the ad that ran from the 1920s through to the 1950s for a brand of “setting lotion”, a delightfully old-...
Single: Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul
A combination of chopped-up newsreel and fever dream, “Murder Most Foul” is...