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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.

Articles By Howard Male

Cheikh Lo, The Scala

Friday, 14 January 2011 Read more...

theartsdesk Christmas Message

Friday, 24 December 2010 Read more...

Festivals Britannia, BBC Four

Friday, 17 December 2010 Read more...

Fry and Laurie Reunited, Gold

Wednesday, 24 November 2010 Read more...

AfroCubism, Barbican

Monday, 22 November 2010 Read more...

Accused, BBC One

Monday, 15 November 2010 Read more...

Dub Colossus, Bloomsbury Ballroom

Thursday, 11 November 2010 Read more...

Wilko Johnson, O2 Academy Islington

Friday, 05 November 2010 Read more...

Krystle Warren, Rich Mix

Friday, 22 October 2010 Read more...

Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death and Women, BBC Four

Thursday, 21 October 2010 Read more...

Tony Allen, Barbican

Wednesday, 06 October 2010 Read more...

DCI Banks: Aftermath, ITV1

Monday, 04 October 2010 Read more...

Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics, Barbican

Thursday, 30 September 2010 Read more...

The Born Free Legacy, BBC Four

Tuesday, 28 September 2010 Read more...

Janelle Monáe, KOKO

Wednesday, 08 September 2010 Read more...

Caitlin Rose, The Windmill

Monday, 06 September 2010 Read more...

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Critics (including this one) casually refer to John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London as an all-star outfit, an army made up of generals. This week I...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale review - an attemptedly eleg...

It can be a hostage to fortune to title anything “grand”, and so it proves with the last gasp of Julian Fellowes’s everyday story of...

Album: Ed Sheeran - Play

“It’s a long way up from rock bottom/There’s been times I felt I could fall further.” So runs the opening line of Ed Sheeran’s eighth studio album...

Presteigne Festival 2025 review - new music is centre stage...

If you were a devotee of Dmitri Shostakovich whose only opportunity to attend some live performances marking this year’s 50th anniversary of his...

Islands review - sunshine noir serves an ace

From its ambiguous opening shot onwards, writer/director Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands is a tricksy animal, which doesn’t just keep...

A Single Man, Linbury Theatre review - an anatomy of melanch...

Mind, body, body, mind. Medical science confirms the powerful two-way traffic between emotional and physical health. Nonetheless the idea of...

theartsdesk Q&A: actor Sam Riley on playing a washed-up...

You won't find Sam Riley lying at the pool in a holiday resort – unless it's for work. "I'd rather stay home to be honest", says the...

Album: Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderfu...

Everyone’s favourite angsty pop-punk nerds are back, balancing new with nostalgia and synths with guitars, this is exactly what fans have been...

Cow | Deer, Royal Court review - paradox-rich account of non...

I love irony. Especially beautiful irony. So I’m very excited about the ironic gesture of staging a show with no words at the...