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BONNAROO 2023 SCHEDULE IS OUT!!!!
WONDERWORKS ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023
Jacob Collier
Chatting
SPEAKING WITH AURELIO VOLTAIRE
September 29, 2023
Tiffini Taylor
A CHAT WITH AUTHOR SHERRILYN KENYON
September 29, 2023
Tiffini Taylor
Last Night
Jah Wobble – Live in Leeds – “generous spirit and warm humour”
November 25, 2023
Ross McGibbon
Baby Queen – Live in Leeds 2023 – “fun and celebratory”
November 12, 2023
Ross McGibbon
Teenage Fanclub – Live in Leeds 2023 – “See you get older every year, but you don’t change”
November 10, 2023
Ross McGibbon
New Regency Orchestra – Live in Leeds 2023 – “things hot up and the percussion gets really interesting”
October 30, 2023
Ross McGibbon
The Damn Truth – Live in Leeds 2023 – “hard rock set of hippies that simply love the music and make you love it too”
October 19, 2023
Ross McGibbon
Records
1
Baby Queen – ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ – “a witty, banging piece of reportage from Gen Z”
November 7, 2023
Ross McGibbon
2
Tangana’s mysogo-gitano pop: fizzes, pops and broods
October 5, 2023
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3
Quantic serves up a slice of disco lounge
September 20, 2023
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MATANA ROBERTS – ‘COIN COIN CHAPTER FIVE: IN THE GARDEN’ – “gripping, fascinating and totally worth your time”
September 19, 2023
Ross McGibbon
5
Ash – ‘Race The Night’ – “it’s the power of three”
September 8, 2023
Ross McGibbon
Christmas Interview
It’s Chriiiiisssmmmasssss!
Slade Interview with Dave Hill
November 20, 2021
Ross McGibbon
Christmas Favourites
Is it OK if ‘Fairytale of New York’ has got a homophobic slur in it?
December 13, 2021
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There are eight Christmas songs worth cherishing
December 23, 2020
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Opinionated
Is Apple Music starting to DJ my music catalogue?
September 20, 2023
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Yorkston, Thorne and Khan – why?
March 19, 2021
Kamberley Puentes
A New Era: A Mixed Music Reality
November 2, 2019
Sebastiano Alessandroni
The Lost Culture: HipHop
September 19, 2019
Sebastiano Alessandroni
As I listen through my iTunes on random
August 3, 2019
Cameron Thompson
Festivals
DRAGON CON 2023: COSPLAYERS ASSEMBLE!
September 29, 2023
Tiffini Taylor
Notting Hill Carnival, 2023
August 27, 2023
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Kaleidoscope Festival, Alexandra Palace
July 24, 2022
Cassie Barnard
The female and non-binary artists that rocked 2000Trees 2022
July 15, 2022
Yasmine Gaio
A secular celebration at Easter: La Fiesta de Genarin
April 12, 2020
Street Urchin
Music and Culture
(Some, but not all) Spanish singers are getting their boobs out during their show
August 18, 2023
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How music therapy can help rebuild the lives of refugees
August 8, 2023
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How the Windrush generation transformed music in Britain
July 7, 2023
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The silence around unwanted sexual attention in LGBTQ+ venues is making safe spaces less safe
June 29, 2023
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Why do musicians like Elton John find retirement so tough? A music psychology expert explains
June 26, 2023
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On Bands and Singers
Underworld’s music is drugs
May 25, 2023
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Umut Altınçağ, memories of north London, imagined Turkey
May 18, 2023
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Ren is like Eminem n Gollum n ‘Pete from Big Brother’ rolled into one
February 2, 2023
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Nikos Mamangakis
October 8, 2021
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Nathy Peluso – Sana Sana
September 10, 2021
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Can You Be Lovers if Your Lover Doesn’t Love Your Music?
Can you be lovers if your lover doesn’t love your music?
August 27, 2015
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James MacLaren’s best albums of the 70s
The Damn Truth – Live in Leeds 2023 – “hard rock set of hippies that simply love the music and make you love it too”
October 19, 2023
Ross McGibbon
10 Albums From 1972
October 15, 2017
James MacLaren
10 Albums from 1971
September 29, 2017
James MacLaren
10 Albums From 1970
September 17, 2017
James MacLaren
Potted History
A History of Pop Music
October 12, 2023
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A History of the Blues
August 2, 2023
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Classical music: a potted history
March 17, 2021
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A Long History of Jazz
December 31, 2020
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People Watching, Anthropology
MATANA ROBERTS – ‘COIN COIN CHAPTER FIVE: IN THE GARDEN’ – “gripping, fascinating and totally worth your time”
September 19, 2023
Ross McGibbon
How uploading our minds to a computer might become possible
August 1, 2023
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All men are homo(hetero,bi)sexual
July 29, 2023
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Worried about AI? You might have AI-nxiety – here’s how to cope
July 8, 2023
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Accessorising in Stansted Airport
August 7, 2018
Gary Carson
Culture and Politics
Comparing the policies and actions of the Israeli government with the policies and action of Nazi Germany
November 14, 2023
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An Islamophobic alliance of capitalists, fascists and colonialists (and scared little centrists) are behind Israel’s massacre of Gaza’s Palestinians
November 12, 2023
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‘From the river to the sea Palestine will be free’ the desire for a Palestinian state and equality for Palestinian people
November 12, 2023
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The establishment of the ‘Israeli’ state in Palestine, in 1948, was a very bad idea
November 11, 2023
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Is Israel carrying out genocide in Palestine, in 2023?
October 25, 2023
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Russia
What the hell is going on inside Russia?
July 5, 2023
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Art
My Brutal Life Exhibition, Moore St Substation, Sheffield
October 20, 2023
Captain Leadmill
Palestinian 20th Century History in Relief, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara
July 29, 2023
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Children Who Have Seen Too Much Too Soon
July 29, 2023
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Pablo Picasso at the Tate Modern, 1932
July 30, 2018
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Le Corbusier was influenced by ancient Algerian architecture, according to the Tate
July 29, 2018
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Artists
Juan Miro
July 29, 2023
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Cinema and Film
Gollum
September 29, 2023
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Edgar Reitz
November 17, 2021
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Adam Curtis
March 3, 2021
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Comedy
Michelle Wolf sticks it to Trump & co & others
April 29, 2018
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Radio and Podcasts
A review of Russel Brand’s ‘Under the Skin’ podcast
December 12, 2021
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An English review of ‘A Vivir Que Son Dos Dias’
August 23, 2020
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Theatre
Madres, El Teatro Lara, Madrid
July 21, 2023
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Flamenco puts the bombdiggy into ballet in Madrid
July 20, 2023
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PEAKY BLINDERS THE RISE-A review of an enigmatic rise in immersive theatre
March 5, 2023
Angela Smith
Edinburgh Fringe: Hot Brown Honey
August 3, 2018
Lyndsey Murray
Edinburgh Fringe: Andrew Maxwell – Shake a Leg
August 2, 2018
Lyndsey Murray
Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre, London
March 10, 2018
Lorna Stallard
Opera
Pegasus’ Black Opera 25th birthday concert left me enchanted
October 7, 2017
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Carmen in one hour – being so close to an opera singer’s voice is a real treat
June 12, 2017
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Travel
Desert Justice: Hitch-hiking in Iraq
October 25, 2015
Jack Houghton
Bosnia: one eye on the future, one eye in the past
December 1, 2000
Guernica
Photographs from Taiwan
March 1, 2000
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Stripping Off in Israel
March 1, 2000
Ross McGibbon
Shadraq in North Africa
Street Scenes from Algiers, Algeria
July 11, 2018
Shadraq Rodriguez
Tunis street art and street scenes
July 13, 2017
Shadraq Rodriguez
Food and Drink
What coffee does to me (and probably you too)
March 31, 2022
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The Bottle
September 14, 2021
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Spanish food in photos
January 30, 2021
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Think BISTO gravy granules contain meat extract or animal fat? Think again!
October 12, 2019
Derek Duvin
The Italian espresso
February 15, 2019
Shadraq Rodriguez
Eating Out
Es Toque, Majadahonda, Madrid – its all about the meat
July 25, 2023
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Clarity, Madrid, faultless (spicy, fruity, exotic) tapas
July 21, 2023
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Gordon Ramsay’s Restaurant in Heathrow Airport
February 17, 2021
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‘Not Always Caviar’ in Stansted Airport is not a bad place to have a bite to eat
August 14, 2018
Gary Carson
Lifestyle
Lord of the Rings: the evil that sits within
December 31, 2020
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A brief note on the joy of sleep and dreams
September 29, 2020
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London
Women’s international hockey upstaged by Charlie’s military flyover, in Stratford
June 17, 2023
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Alexandra Palace, an answer always in search of a question, is celebrating its 150th year
June 6, 2023
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Flaneuring in Brixton with the ‘Midnight Runners’
September 26, 2017
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London, Music and Euphoria
July 6, 2015
Gary Carson
Cambridge
Coton Nature Reserve
September 17, 2023
Kamberley Puentes
Parker’s Piece, Cambridge
August 22, 2023
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The Centre for Computing History, in Cambridge
May 31, 2023
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Drinking alcohol free beer in Cambridge
September 14, 2021
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The Empty Common Allotment, Cambridge
March 12, 2021
Kamberley Puentes
Madrid
Songs about Madrid
August 4, 2023
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Madrid Rio
July 22, 2023
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Parque de Europa, Madrid
July 15, 2023
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Right-Wing Nationalist Spanish Street Signs & Associated Bits
July 22, 2022
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Libraries in Madrid
July 22, 2022
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Walking in the Mountains of Madrid
Camino Schmid, from Puerto Navecerrada
July 27, 2023
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Monte Abantos, from Escorial
July 24, 2023
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Embalse de la Jarosa
July 18, 2023
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La Pedriza, Sierra de Guadarama, Madrid
July 16, 2023
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Valle de Baranca, in the mountains of Madrid
July 13, 2023
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Spain
Songs about Spain
August 6, 2023
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Rosalia, Rigoberta and Nathy… the new Spanish vanguard
August 5, 2023
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Depictions of England and Britain in Spain
February 12, 2021
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Spanish food in photos
January 30, 2021
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Spain, dry meseta
January 25, 2021
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Books
Cormac McCarthy: where to begin reading his searing, brutal and unforgettable novels
June 16, 2023
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‘But Its So Silly’ Jon Arno Lawson
December 28, 2020
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The Illustrated History of Football by David Squires
October 7, 2020
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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
February 1, 1999
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The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
January 1, 1999
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
August 1, 1998
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Travel Writing
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
August 31, 2020
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Fabled Shore by Rose MacAulay
August 15, 2020
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Street Art
Was Jarvis Cocker ever really ‘common’? Sheffield Street Art, October 23
October 20, 2023
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Extinction Rebellion street art, July 2023, Madrid
July 29, 2023
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Tottenham Street Art, zoological.
May 29, 2023
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Has the Cambridge Mill Road mural missed the point about diversity?
September 4, 2020
Street Urchin
Donald Trump sticker, just off Old Street, London
July 28, 2018
Street Urchin
Urban Photography
Sheffield this morning (with Richard not Judy! ha.)
September 22, 2023
Captain Leadmill
Split, Croatia
July 5, 2023
Shadraq Rodriguez
Things ground into the pavement
February 18, 2021
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Gijon, the finest place on God’s earth
January 25, 2021
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Ribadesella: German sea view from a Spanish sea front
January 25, 2021
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Football
Spain’s football president ‘owns’ ‘his girls’ moments before they lift the World Cup
August 21, 2023
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For David Squires Diego Maradona is the greatest
October 20, 2020
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The Best Photography on Vanguard Online
The best music photographs from 2017 on Vanguard Online
January 8, 2018
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Writing About Music
How to turn your vomit into a series of suckerpunches! Hitting home with your writing.
June 24, 2015
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What makes for good music journalism?
May 3, 2015
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Making Gig Reviews Sticky
May 2, 2015
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Why bury the gobsmacking one liner?
May 2, 2015
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Do we need a date in the title of our articles?
May 2, 2015
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Vanguard Online Contributors
SHINEDOWN SHINED!
October 2, 2023
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September 10, 2021
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