Saskia Baron
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Al Alvarez: 'If I drop dead this minute, I’ve had a ter...
We like to think of ourselves as a nation of eccentrics, but some take their patriotic duties more seriously than others. Al Alvarez –...
The Sisters of Mercy, Roundhouse review - hits delivered fro...
While bands such as The Birthday Party, Siouxsie and the Banshees and, especially, Bauhaus had a hand in inventing goth music at the start of the...
Ed Byrne, Berry Theatre, Hedge End review - musing on middle...
Ed Byrne's new show takes a philosophical bent as he muses on middle age and fatherhood. But don't worry, he's not getting soft at the age of 47...
10 Questions for conductor Charles Hazlewood
Charles Hazlewood (b. 1966) has worked across the gamut of...
CD: The New Pornographers – In the Morse Code of Brake Light...
New Pornographer-in-chief AC Newman grew up enraptured by how much and how little...
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey: She Said review – better tha...
October 5th in the United States is a day for righteous rage. In 2016 it marked the release of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape in...
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Beatles - Abbey Road
Amongst the issues integral to the final album The Beatles...
Carmen, Welsh National Opera review - intermittent brillianc...
You can love Carmen as much as you like (as much as I do, for instance), and still have a certain sympathy for the poor director who has...
theartsdesk in Hamburg: Reeperbahn Festival 2019 review
Hatari’s 10th placing in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest hasn’t done them any harm. Neither did ruffling the feathers of the European...
Keane, De La Warr Pavilion review – hometown heartbreak
Keane grew up six miles away in Battle, making this night in balmy Bexhill-on-Sea as close as they can...