The Arts 6/6

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Billy Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and activist. Two of his most recent projects are the book The Three Dimensions of Freedom...

Nick Coleman on Björk

VOICES: 3/ love stories Björk: "Hyperballad" (One Little Indian, 1995) There is nothing so old as the day before yesterday's thing. And...

Drawing Projects UK: an auction

Choose Art/Give Light to Refugees is a benefit art auction – online until midnight on June 29 2020 – that aims to raise funds to help...

Helen Petts: The Cutty Wren

Helen Petts is an artist and film-maker who explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events, both in the landscape and in her...

Matthew Bourne: an improvisation

Photograph by Steven Cropper Matthew Bourne is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades, and possesses an inventive and unique...

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Hen Ogledd take their name from the phrase for the Old North, the Celtic region comprising Southern Scotland and Northern England in...

Richard Helyar: North Laine

Richard Helyar is a freelance photographer.

Crayon Angels: Twice For Regret

Here, verbatim, is the bio for Crayon Angels, who are: Natalina Castiglioni: Vocals Del Halpin: Guitar, Pedal Steel, Mandolin Ian...

Nick Coleman on music in a pandemic

VOICES: 2/ Melancholy Belshazzar's Feast: "Home, Lad, Home" (Unearthed, 2010) "I can feel it", a friend said only last week, "but I can't...

Helen Petts: rhythm, texture, sound and chance events

Helen Petts is an artist and film-maker who explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events, both in the landscape and in her...

Blanca Regina: an improvisation

Photo by Alberto García-Alix Blanca Regina is an artist, curator and tutor based in London, who is currently involved in creating sound...

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Simbiatu "Simbi" Abisola Abiola Ajikawo (born 23 February 1994) is better known by her stage name Little Simz and is a British rapper,...

Christopher Miller on The Godfather

Christopher Miller watches films so that you don't have to. Can something be prodigiously under-imagined? Mario Puzo, talking about the...

Steve Shepherd: photographs

Steve Shepherd writes poems and takes photographs. He used to make radio programmes, mostly jazz.

Maria Fusco: Comic Face

Notes on Comic Face His is not a comic face. Immobility The ability to slip through time. Allowing each of us to see through face, to see...

Nick Coleman on Ann Peebles

VOICES: 1/ The Faux Pathetic Fallacy Ann Peebles: "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Hi, 1973) John Lennon called it "the best record ever" but he...

Steve Beresford: an improvisation

Photograph by Fabio Lugaro Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over...

Nick Coleman on singing

John Lennon may or may not have been the first Englishman to sing American-derived pop music with an English regional accent, but he was...

Martha Shepherd on the power of improvisation

Martha Shepherd is a London-based documentary filmmaker from South Wales who likes to explore communities outside of the mainstream. You...

Richard Helyar: shots of Soho

Richard Helyar is a freelance photographer.

Peter Moore on Malian Hip Hop

Hip Hop is huge in Mali and Bamako is littered with makeshift recording studios. Most of them are tiny, boasting a computer, a vocal...

Mark Simpson: film composer

If you can keep your eyes off this clip, try listening to the musical accompaniment instead. It's by Mark Simpson and was created for a...

Andy Hitchen

This, entitled "The Girl in the Snow Globe", is an illustration for "The Haunted Snow Globe", which appears in Asahi Weekly. Both are by...