May 11th, 2012 posted by Nicholas Murgatroyd
Lost Memory of Skin conveys the reader out of their comfort zone and into that area that all good fiction aspires to inhabit, full of challenging ideas and questions that brook no easy answers.
In the opening scene, the central protagonist, the Kid, visits a Florida library and asks to use the internet. This may not [...]
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May 6th, 2012 posted by Ian Pople
The combination of Alice Russell’s smokey tones and the South American inflected drive of Combo Barbaro proved irresistible to the packed house at Manchester’s Band on the Wall, on Friday. Combo Barbaro put together by the Worcester-born but Colombian resident, Will ‘Quantic’ Holland, contained a Colombian percussionist, a Peruvian keyboard player, long-time Russell collaborator, Mike [...]
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