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
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The Last Five Years, Garrick Theatre review - bittersweet mu...
Much has happened in the five years since your reviewer braved the steep rake at The Other Palace and saw The Last Five Years...
Gagarine review - hazy cosmic jive in a Paris banlieue
This is the story of a boy and a building. Sixteen-year-old Youri (newcomer Alseni Bathily) lives, with his telescope, in Cité Gagarine, a vast...
Nicola Benedetti, Barbican Hall review – from Bach to the Hi...
If a standard-sized recital hall can be a lonely place for a solo violinist, playing an auditorium of Barbican dimensions must feel like crossing...
Creature, English National Ballet, Sadler's Wells revie...
If a new ballet can be doomed by the weight of expectation, then...
'Rest now, you God': remembering bass-baritone Nor...
Few singers really change your life. Norman Bailey did that for me [writes David Nice of theartsdesk]. The occasion wasn't my first experience of...
Barry Adamson: Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars rev...
For those not familiar with the murkier corners of British rock...
The Ballad of Billy McCrae review - beware the quarryman...
An entertaining but undernourished industrial-domestic neo-noir set in South...
Album: Amon Tobin - How Do You Live
Amon Tobin is hard to pin down. His music has mutated over the years. He initially fitted in with Ninja Tune’s late-Nineties/early-Noughties...