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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Directors the Dardenne brothers: 'To be living means to...
Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have made their home region of Liège the site of excruciating moral crises and crushing injustice....
Manchester Collective String Orchestra, RNCM, Manchester rev...
Manchester Collective’s string orchestra programme, opening last night at the Royal Northern College of Music and touring to the South Bank, Leeds...
Best of Enemies, Noel Coward Theatre review - opposites attr...
Opposition (and history) are the apparent mainstays of the ceaselessly busy...
Album: Camilla Pisani - Phant[as]
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Tori and Lokita review - a masterpiece of humanist cinema
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes are Belgium’s national conscience. The brothers, who have been sharing the roles of writer-director-producer since...
The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English, Bush Studio review - an...
The Bush studio space is proving a fruitful launch pad, not just for...
Album: Olly Murs - Marry Me
Oh dear. 10 songs of very little consequence. And one which has sparked “controversy”. "I Hate You When You're...
Tokyo Vice, BBC One review - murder, extortion and corruptio...
There was originally a plan to make Tokyo Vice a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe, but it has ended up as a TV series starring Ansel...
Album: White Lung - Premonition
In 2016’s abrasive album opener, "Dead Weight", frontwoman Mish Barber-Way laments over multiple miscarriages as her biological clock ticks away...