Gavin Dixon
Bio
Gavin Dixon is a writer, journalist and editor based in Hertfordshire, UK. He has a PhD on the symphonies of Alfred Schnittke and is a member of the editorial team for the Alfred Schnittke Collected Works Edition, currently being published in St Petersburg. Gavin is also a Curator of Musical Instruments at the Horniman Museum in London and Music Editor of Fanfare Magazine.
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Music Reissues Weekly: Motörhead - The Manticore Tapes
Manticore was owned by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and their manager. The organisation provided the name for the band’s label. Apart from ELP and its...
Kiefer / Van Gogh, Royal Academy review - a pairing of oppos...
When he was a callow youth of 18, German artist Anselm Keifer got a travel grant to follow in the footsteps of his idol, Vincent van Gogh. Some...
Siglo de Oro, Wigmore Hall review - electronic Lamentations...
Siglo de Oro are a vocal ensemble who specialise in older music – and especially neglected older music – but they have also...
Album: Barry Can't Swim - Loner
Despite being Mercury nominated, Bazza’s hardly a household name. Nevertheless, his debut album ...
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, National Portrait Ga...
When in the 1990s, Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in...
Hot Milk review - a mother of a problem
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk, adapted from Deborah Levy’s 2016 Man Booker shortlistee, has been described as a "psychological drama"....
Glastonbury Festival 2025: Five Somerset summer days of musi...
MONDAY 30th JUNE 2025
“I think you’d better drive,” says Finetime, his face sallow, skull-sockets underscored by...
Tom Raworth: Cancer review - truthfulness
I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: "Not everyone agreed on the reality of that." Once the domain of Andre Breton’s...