Peter Culshaw | The Arts Desk

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Peter Culshaw

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Bio

Peter is a music and arts broadcaster and has written for the Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Songlines, among others in the UK and internationally. He has written a recently published book Clandestino: In Search Of Manu Chao published by Serpent's Tail and has produced and compiled numerous CDs. He was a founding Director of theartsdesk, and is co-editor of the New Music section.

Articles By Peter Culshaw

Fela!, National Theatre Wednesday, 17 November 2010 Read more...	Brad Mehldau, Barbican Hall Sunday, 14 November 2010 Read more...
Dick Flash: an interview masterclass with Brian Eno Wednesday, 03 November 2010 Read more...	Éthiopiques: Mulatu Astatke and the Story of Ethiopian Jazz Tuesday, 02 November 2010 Read more...
Manu Chao, Coronet Theatre Sunday, 24 October 2010 Read more...	Solomon Burke, c 1940-2010 Monday, 11 October 2010 Read more...
Outer India - subcontinental grooves residency Tuesday, 28 September 2010 Read more...	Interview: Muse - Paranoid, Glam and Supermassive Tuesday, 21 September 2010 Read more...
Interview: Alim Qasimov, Mugam Maestro Thursday, 16 September 2010 Read more...	Archaos: Circus From Hell, Bargehouse Friday, 10 September 2010 Read more...
The xx win Mercury Prize, the oOoOO next year? Tuesday, 07 September 2010 Read more...	The Musical Pygmies of the Central African Republic Saturday, 04 September 2010 Read more...
Villazon refunds for his seven-minute concert Wednesday, 18 August 2010 Read more...	Ken Livingstone pitches for London SXSW Thursday, 12 August 2010 Read more...
Pink Martini, Barbican Saturday, 31 July 2010 Read more...	Prince, Super Rock Festival, Lisbon Friday, 23 July 2010 Read more...

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The Midnight Bell, Sadler's Wells review - a first repr...

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Album: HAIM - I Quit

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies...

Aldeburgh Festival, Weekend 1 review - dance to the music of...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of despair “...

Bonnie Raitt, Brighton Dome review - a top night with a char...

If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have the best night of...

Hidden Door Festival 2025 review - the transformative Edinbu...

"When I was your age, I worked in a corrugated cardboard factory!" is a phrase my father was fond of telling me as a teenager, presumably in an...

Edward Burra, Tate Britain review - watercolour made mainstr...

It’s unusual to leave an exhibition liking an artist’s work less than when you went in, but...

Joyceana around Bloomsday, Dublin review - flawless adaptati...

It amuses me that Dubliners dress up in Edwardian finery on 16 June. After all, this was the date in 1904 when James Joyce first walked out with...

Stereophonic, Duke of York's Theatre review - rich slic...

The tag “the most Tony-nominated play of all time” may mean less to London theatregoers than it does to New Yorkers, but Stereophonic,...

Ithell Colquhoun, Tate Britain review - revelations of a wei...

Tate Britain is currently offering two exhibitions...