Jenny Gilbert
Articles By Jenny Gilbert
latest in today
Help to give theartsdesk a future!
It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Music Reissues Weekly: Gather In The Mushrooms
“Forest and the Shore” by Keith Christmas is remarkable. In his essay for Gather In The Mushrooms, compiler, author and Saint Etienne...
Müller-Schott , RSNO, Søndergård, Usher Hall, Edinburgh - sp...
There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of...
Hamad Butt: Apprehensions, Whitechapel Gallery review - cool...
Hamad Butt studied at Goldsmiths College at the same time as YBAs (Young British Artists) like Damien Hirst and Gillian Wearing; but whereas they...
Album: Van Morrison - Remembering Now
When Van Morrison last released an album of original songs, during the Covid pandemic, it didn’t go down well. Indeed for many,...
Ballerina review - hollow point
John Wick’s simple story of a man and his dog became a bonkers, baroque franchise in record time, converting Keanu Reeves’ limited acting into Zen...
Caroline, Islington Assembly Hall review - south London octe...
In 2022 I called caroline “perhaps the best band in the U.K” in my article about their debut, which I named my album of the year....
theartsdesk in Fes - world music central
With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of...