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Femi Kuti & The Positive Force – Live Review – Leeds Brudenell
By David Schuster, January 2025 Femi Kuti bounds onto the stage waving and already speaking ten to the dozen. Brudenell ... -
Seckou Keita & The Homeland Band – Live Review – Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds
By David Schuster, November 2024 Seckou Keita has a deep love and understanding for music. Not content with being a ... -
Homeland by Seckou Keita – Album Review
By David Schuster Seckou Keita’s latest in a long line of album releases is a fresh, beautiful and poignant mélange ... -
The Libertines – Live Review – Leeds O2 Academy
By David Schuster, October 2024 Libertines’ gigs highlight the rich back catalogue the band has created over a period of ... -
Doctor Who Event: ‘The Gothic Tales’ An Afternoon with Philip Hinchcliffe Review Headrow House, Leeds
By David Schuster, September 2024 The inimitable Philip Hinchcliffe was a defining creative force in British television for three decades, ... -
A Mudlarking Year by Lara Maiklem – Review
By David Schuster Lara Maiklem is a magician, pulling beauty out of the ooze of the River Thames both literally ... -
Air – Live Review – Halifax Piece Hall
By David Schuster, June 2024 You’d have to look a long way to find a band as cool as electronic ... -
Elephant Sessions – Live Review – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
By David Schuster, May 2024 Elephant Sessions have attained that holy grail to which so many groups aspire, finding a ... -
An Interview with Stuart Maconie
Stuart Maconie’s best selling travelogue, the entertaining and wryly observational The Full English, is about to be published in paperback. ... -
An Interview with Alasdair Taylor of Elephant Sessions
Award winning indie folk-rock quartet, Elephant Sessions begin an extensive UK and international tour in May, taking their unique fusion ... -
All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade by The Libertines – Album Review
By David Schuster Like throwing a grenade into the Serpentine, The Libertines’ first release, Up the Bracket, way back in ... -
Lost in the Lakes by Tom Chesshyre – Review
By David Schuster That master of the short story, M.R. James, discussing the popular travelogues of the 1840s and 50s, ...