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Howard has written on music for the Independent, Songlines, The Word and other publications. He is also a musician and has just completed his first novel, Etc Etc Amen.

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Barcelona, Duke of York's Theatre review - Lily Collins...

The Catalan capital has given its name to a famous number in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Company. And here it is lending geographical...

Album: Alley Cat - The Widow Project

If the names Pinch, Vex’d, Burial, Digital Mystikz, The Bug mean anything to you, stop reading now and buy or stream this album. Seriously, go. Go...

Bob Vylan, O2 Institute, Birmingham review - self-proclaimed...

More than once during their barnstorming performance this weekend, Bobby Vylan, vocalist with Bob Vylan proclaimed from the stage of Birmingham’s...

Ohlsson, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall, Manc...

The BBC Philharmonic were right to bill Garrick Ohlsson, soloist in ...

Fauré Centenary Concert 1, Wigmore Hall review - Isserlis an...

Earlier this year, Steven Isserlis curated a revelatory Sheffield Chamber Music Festival spotlighting Saint-Saëns, with...

Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings review - a gift that keeps o...

In Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel, The Swimming Pool Library (1988), set during the summer of 1983, the young gay narrator, William...

Album: Møster! - Springs

Springs begins cooking with “Spaced Out Invaders - Part I Quirks,” its fourth track. A spindly, rotating guitar figure interweaves with...

Music Reissues Weekly: Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Singles

After the chart success of his second album, June 1969’s Hot Buttered Soul, it was inevitable that any single had to represent Isaac...