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

Florence + the Machine, Alexandra Palace (2012) Saturday, 10 March 2012 Read more...	theASHtray: Blood Car, organ donation, and the pop song carbon footprint Saturday, 10 March 2012 Read more...
The Duke Spirit, KOKO Thursday, 08 March 2012 Read more...	War Horse: The Real Story, Channel Four Monday, 05 March 2012 Read more...
theASHtray: Klinghoffer, Cape Town, and Debussy pisses off the poets Saturday, 03 March 2012 Read more...	All New People, Duke of York's Theatre Wednesday, 29 February 2012 Read more...
theASHtray: Homeland, Kings of Leon, and we need to talk about Aïda Saturday, 25 February 2012 Read more...	theASHtray: Whitney, bin men, and the NPG's 'incautious' acquisitions Saturday, 18 February 2012 Read more...
theASHtray: Janáček, Carnage, and Seth MacFarlane v George Clooney Saturday, 11 February 2012 Read more...	Bullets, Boots and Bandages, BBC Four Friday, 10 February 2012 Read more...
DNA, Rose Theatre, Kingston Tuesday, 07 February 2012 Read more...	theASHtray: Beyoncé, 'Bond', and Eddie Redmayne's lips Saturday, 04 February 2012 Read more...
Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan, Channel 5 Tuesday, 31 January 2012 Read more...	The World Against Apartheid, BBC Four Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Read more...
An African Election Tuesday, 22 November 2011 Read more...	Spiritualized, Royal Albert Hall Wednesday, 12 October 2011 Read more...

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