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LIVE REPORT: Bring To Light
At the inaugural edition of the new weekender from Supersonic festival's organisers, Nancy Bennie witnesses an unexpectedly dancefloor-ready turn from Dinos Chapman, shirks a lifelong hatred of folk music and doffs a cap to the Library of Birmingham. Photographs courtesy of Katja Ogrin
Books
Productive Pleasure: Alfie Bown’s Enjoying It Reviewed
Looking at psychological and social power structures and stark capitalist reality through the lens of Candy Crush and YouTube wormholes, Joe Kennedy considers the ideas of productive and unproductive pleasures and sympathy with pretentiousness via Alfie Bown's Enjoying It
Black Sky Thinking
It’s Art, Darling: Kate Bush, Duckie & Loyalty In The Wilderness Years
Fame and favour are fickle, but some artists are forever in your heart and your record box, even if they have made an album with Lenny Henry. Here Mark Wood, aka The Blonde One of Duckie resident DJs The Readers Wifes, explains how a love for Kate Bush is what launched their two decades of dancefloor drama and mayhem
Anniversary
Music, Magic and Mystery: 25 Years of D’Angelo’s Voodoo
A quarter of a century ago, a constellation of stellar artists performed a kind of musical alchemy in a fabled New York studio. Voodoo has lost none of its allure and retains all of its impact 25 years on. How did they do this, a still dumbfounded Angus Batey asks
