By BRUCE DENNILL Deacon Blue are appearing in South Africa for the first time in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Singer and chief songwriter Ricky Ross (pictured, third from left) talks about his musical journey. During Covid downtime, your recorded...
By BRUCE DENNILL This is the album Twin Atlantic made once they felt they’d achieved everything they set out to do when they formed the band. That they have the mettle to do that now, when they’re a big band, but not a massive, world-straddling one (fellow...
By ALAN SWERDLOW Under The Skin / Directed by Jonathan Glazer / 16NSVL I was going to use the phrase “strong meat” in analysing Jonathan Glazer’s cinematic adaptation of Michael Faber’s sci-fi novel, and then thought better of it. Strong meat would be...