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★★★★ @chuckprophet.bsky.social #MidSussexMusicHall Hassocks - Liberating rock'n'roll from an unassuming master - the good American offers two hours of humour and humane passion, says Nick Hasted theartsdesk.com/new-music/ch...

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50-ish years on from its chart debut, Kraftwerk’s Autobahn LP becomes a picture disc and is remixed in surround sound. Back in 1975, though, they weren’t neccesarily treated so respectfully. I’ve looked at this today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...

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Oscars 2025: long day's journey into #Anora - Matt Wolf digests this year's celebrations theartsdesk.com/film/oscars-...

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★★★ The power of white powder: Hylozoic/Desires present Salt Cosmologies, Somerset House and The Hedge of Halomancy, Tate Britain, Sarah Kent reviews theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

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★★★★ Jethro Tull burst out again with a set of bristling folk-prog anthems: @grahamfuller.bsky.social reviews new album Curious Ruminant theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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★★★★ Brighton metallers #Architects condense their 20 year career into an impactful concoction on new album The Sky, The Earth & All Between Tom Carr reviews theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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★★★★ Brighton label Goo Records put on an ebullient show on their home turf: Jopy/Lemonsuckr/King of May, at Green Door Store, Brighton an exhilarating showcase for new young guitar bands says Thomas H Green theartsdesk.com/new-music/jo...

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★★★★ If there is one thing that conductors could learn from Strauss himself, it’s his advice to 'Never look at the brass – it only encourages them': @robertbealemcr.bsky.social reviews Gromes, Hallé, Chauhan, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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★★★★ A celebration of the ancestors, African and European: Mark Kidel reviews Abel Selaocoe - Hymns of Bantu theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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★★ Why is it so hard to write a decent play about Bach? @hallibee1.bsky.social reviews The Score at Theatre Royal Haymarket a curious beast of a play fails to engage theartsdesk.com/theatre/scor...

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★★★ Pamela Anderson stars as a middle-aged Vegas dancer in The Last Showgirl MArkie Robson-Scott reviews theartsdesk.com/film/last-sh...

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★★★★ #Bergerac the Jersey 'tec is born again after 34 years: Damien Molony boldly follows in the hallowed footsteps of John Nettles on U&Drama Adam Sweeting reviews theartsdesk.com/tv/bergerac-...

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★★★★ Surreally humorous and finally devastating: Gaza play A Knock on the Roof, Royal Court is a poignant account of living under terror writes @sierz.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/theatre/knoc...

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★★★★ THE FERRYMAN #GaietyTheatre Dublin - #JezButterworth's Northern Irish epic comes close to home, with a variable ensemble yielding some gripping scenes and monologues - review @davidnice.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/theatre/ferr...

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★★★★ #HelenCharlston #SholtoKynoch #TempleChurch - Coups de théâtre in a well-constructed programme, with fine singing, and powerful stage presence - review @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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NEW LINK for - Interview: Polar photographer #SebastianCopeland talks about the dramatic changes in the #Arctic theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

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★★★ @smellybdrmm.bsky.social - #MICROTONIC - Post-shoegazing quartet’s third album evokes the communal musical experience - @kierontyler.bsky.social's take on a dose of beats-bedded, drifting #electronica theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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★★★★ #TimothyRidout #12Ensemble @wigmore-hall.org.uk - Brilliant #Britten and bombastic #Brahms: dazzling solo and ensemble playing in pieces inspired by music of the past - review @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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#DOVES @dovesofficial.bsky.social - CONSTELLATIONS FOR THE LONELY - #Progrock existential wranglings from the grizzled Mancunians - 'their demented ambition is definitely to be saluted', says @joemuggs.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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❤️ @gillespeterson.bsky.social for support @theartsdesk.bsky.social's fundraising drive 'The people who write about culture are as important to the health of the nation as those who create it by helping audiences discover and deepen their engagement with the arts. The Art Desk is one such place.'

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Many thanks to @ninjatunehq.bsky.social for support for @theartsdesk.bsky.social's fundraising drive 'Thanks for all the support you have given us and also your part in shaping such a broad and important publication' See our GoFundMe page gofund.me/c3f6033d to help us continue and develop

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★★★★ #HelenCharlston #SholtoKynoch #TempleChurch - Coups de théâtre in a well-constructed programme, with fine singing, and powerful stage presence - review @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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★★★★ #TimothyRidout #12Ensemble @wigmore-hall.org.uk - Brilliant #Britten and bombastic #Brahms: dazzling solo and ensemble playing in pieces inspired by music of the past - review @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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★★★★ #MarthaArgerich #OxfordPhilharmonicOrchestra #MariosPapadopoulos @barbicancentre.bsky.social - The great pianist as life and soul: #Argerich's delivery of the #Beethoven made it clear that she still merits legend status, says @hallibee1.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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★★★★ MICKALENE THOMAS #AllAboutLove @southbankcentre.bsky.social - The shock of the glue: rhinestones to the ready - Sarah Kent is won over by the American artist's 'all that glitters' style and aesthetic theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

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★★★ @smellybdrmm.bsky.social - #MICROTONIC - Post-shoegazing quartet’s third album evokes the communal musical experience - @kierontyler.bsky.social's take on a dose of beats-bedded, drifting #electronica theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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★★★★ #MarthaArgerich #OxfordPhilharmonicOrchestra #MariosPapadopoulos @barbicancentre.bsky.social - The great pianist as life and soul: #Argerich's delivery of the #Beethoven made it clear that she still merits legend status, says @hallibee1.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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NEW LINK for - Interview: Polar photographer #SebastianCopeland talks about the dramatic changes in the #Arctic theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

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★★★★★ DRUGSTORE COWBOY - #GusVanSant's non-judgmental indie classic about a gang of narcotics addicts - @realjohncarvill.bsky.social salutes 'a beautiful, poetic, humanist film' - now on @criterion.bsky.social Blu-ray theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray...

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★★★★ MICKALENE THOMAS #AllAboutLove @southbankcentre.bsky.social - The shock of the glue: rhinestones to the ready - Sarah Kent is won over by the American artist's 'all that glitters' style and aesthetic theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

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★★★★ #BertrandChamayou #BBCPhilharmonic #LudovicMorlot @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social - Blasts of #Boulez, magical #Ravel, as a celebration of the two French masters continues in big bangs and gentleness - review @robertbealemcr.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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'A mellower, acoustic sound that contemplates life's rhythms' ★★★ #HeatherNova - BREATH AND AIR - Nova shines brightest when merging personal stories with universal themes, says @katiecolombus.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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★★★★ #FLEDERMAUS #IrishNationalOpera - Sex, please, we're Viennese/American/Russian/Irish! Vivacious company makes the party buzz, does what it can around it - review @davidnice.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/opera/fleder...

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★★★★ @jessicaduchen.bsky.social MYRA HESS - #NationalTreasure - Biography of the groundbreaking British pianist who was a hero of the #Blitz - @bernardhughes.bsky.social on a well-told life of a pioneering musician theartsdesk.com/books-classi...

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Interview: Polar photographer #SebastianCopeland on a lifetime of chronicling dramatic changes in the #Arctic - @hallibee1.bsky.social learns how intimately our lives are caught up with a region which for all its frozen austerity is in flux @rizzolibooks.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

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★★★★★ DRUGSTORE COWBOY - #GusVanSant's non-judgmental indie classic about a gang of narcotics addicts - @realjohncarvill.bsky.social salutes 'a beautiful, poetic, humanist film' - now on @criterion.bsky.social Blu-ray theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray...

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★★★★ @jessicaduchen.bsky.social MYRA HESS - #NationalTreasure - Biography of the groundbreaking British pianist who was a hero of the #Blitz - @bernardhughes.bsky.social on a well-told life of a pioneering musician theartsdesk.com/books-classi...

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Interview: Polar photographer #SebastianCopeland on a lifetime of chronicling dramatic changes in the #Arctic - @hallibee1.bsky.social learns how intimately our lives are caught up with a region which for all its frozen austerity is in flux @rizzolibooks.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

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Went to see @ratsonrafts.bsky.social at The Victoria, Dalston. Not the gloomsters they appear to be on new album Deep Below. Dancing! Wrote about it for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ra...

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★★★★ #FLEDERMAUS #IrishNationalOpera - Sex, please, we're Viennese/American/Russian/Irish! Vivacious company makes the party buzz, does what it can around it - review @davidnice.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/opera/fleder...

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'A mellower, acoustic sound that contemplates life's rhythms' ★★★ #HeatherNova - BREATH AND AIR - Nova shines brightest when merging personal stories with universal themes, says @katiecolombus.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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Many thanks for support shekukm.bsky.social Sheku Kanneh-Mason! theartsdesk.bsky.social is such a valuable one-stop website for everything cultural. With its critics often venturing where other publications do not, it shines a much-needed light on the depth and breadth of the arts in this country.

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★★★★ #HarryHill #WiltonsMusicHall - The madcap comic is on terrific form, with an utterly daft mix of new material and favourite old characters, says Veronica Lee theartsdesk.com/comedy/harry...

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★★★★ #BertrandChamayou #BBCPhilharmonic #LudovicMorlot @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social - Blasts of #Boulez, magical #Ravel, as a celebration of the two French masters continues in big bangs and gentleness - review @robertbealemcr.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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A THOUSAND BLOWS Disney+ @filmandseries.bsky.social - #PeakyBlinders comes to #RipperStreet? The prolific #StevenKnight takes us back to a squalid Victorian London, with a bravura role from #StephenGraham - review by Adam Sweeting theartsdesk.com/tv/thousand-...

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★★★★ #HINDS St Lukes and the Winged Ox, Glasgow - Spanish garage rockers surviving and thriving - after a difficult few years, the group sounded resurgent, delivering a frantic show, says Jonathan Geddes theartsdesk.com/new-music/hi...

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THE MONKEY - A grisly wind-up: #OzPerkins’ #Longlegs follow-up plays #StephenKing's killer toy for bloody laughs, says Nick Hasted theartsdesk.com/film/monkey-...

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‘There's a bel canto feast when #Bellini joins the Mob’ ★★★★ THE CAPULETS AND THE MONTAGUES #EnglishTouringOpera @hackneyempire.bsky.social - #ETO have done generous justice to this brilliantly rich but seldom-heard score, says @boydtonkin.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/opera/capule...

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#Artemis - #ARBORESQUE - A safe album from a band with a necessary message - but is there something, a spark maybe, missing here? asks @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

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