Bruce Dessau
Bio
Bruce specialises in music, TV and comedy. He writes for The London Evening Standard and is the author of biographies of numerous major figures, including George Michael and Rowan Atkinson. His latest book is Beyond A Joke: Inside The Dark World of Stand-Up Comedy (Random House). He is also the editor of comedy website beyondthejoke.co.uk
Articles By Bruce Dessau
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Endurance review - the greatest escape, AI-assisted
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which set out in 1914 only to be marooned until August 1916, was a failure but a “...
Album: Mystery Time - Maudlin Tales of Grief and Love
Londoner Ayman Rostom has been around the block and then some. For some 25 years he’s been a hip hop producer as Dr Zygote, for the past decade he...
Kanneh-Mason, Sinfonia of London, Wilson review - taking the...
A programme of less-loved siblings – Shostakovich’s gnarly Second Cello Concerto and Rachmaninov’s “not-the-Second” Symphony No. 1 – gave John...
Disclaimer, Apple TV+ review - a misfiring revenge saga from...
It seems to be silly season for big-name directors...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 86: Molly Tuttle, Depeche Mode, Pharoah...
VINYL OF THE MONTH
Hannah Scott Absence of Doubt (Fancourt Music)
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opera North review - one of the b...
Martin Duncan’s 2008 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of the best and funniest things Opera North has ever done – back...
Rose Matafeo, Arcola Theatre review - Starstruck star muses...
Rose Matafeo knows how to make an entrance, as she enters the stage with a choreographed dance. She's useless at ending things, she says – shows,...
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Hatfield House review - mus...
“Sero sed serio”: so runs the Salisbury family motto on the carved coat-of-arms in the lavishly panelled and painted Marble Hall of Hatfield House...
Album: MC5 - Heavy Lifting
MC5 were the original proto-punkers who led the charge against wafty hippy music in the late Sixties and early Seventies. They were touted by...