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The Snuts review – homecoming rockers inspire flying pints and overturned chairs
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Gorillaz review – Damon Albarn and friends make a bit of live music history
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Bowie, bed-hopping and the blues: the wild times of Dana Gillespie
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Pedro Almodóvar’s films – ranked!
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‘We’re not just passing through’: how photographer Vanley Burke immortalised black Britain
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A fresh angle: The revolutionary gaze of Margaret Watkins – in pictures
Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins rejected traditional gender roles to become a pioneering modernist photographer with Renaissance flair Continue reading…
Summer of Soul
In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns [ungated link] – “Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival from Questlove.” (via) [1,2,3; fanfare] Sometimes these archival-footage documen…
Russell Tovey: ‘Queer people in my generation have section 28 in our blood’
As he hits the stage in Constellations, Tovey talks babies, what he’d say to the culture secretary and why he finally understands The History BoysRussell Tovey is trying to lick his elbow. It’s a ritual every performer has to go through in the opening …
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