LFF Preview: Beware Of Mr Baker
Ed Owen watches Jay Bulger's profile of irascible veteran drummer Ginger Baker, screening at the 56th London Film Festival
Ed Owen watches Jay Bulger's profile of irascible veteran drummer Ginger Baker, screening at the 56th London Film Festival
Island-dwelling outsider musician and One More Grain brain Daniel Patrick Quinn tells us about his 13 favourite albums from Suede to Fela Kuti, Nico to Robert Wyatt and Gamelan to ELO, plus the sound of a snipe drumming, and wonders whether he'd have sexual feelings for Jeff Lynne were he a woman.
Phil Hebblethwaite invites you into Brahms’s German Requiem, one of the worst-named pieces of classical music in the canon. It has nothing to do with nationalism, or the church, and should have been called what Brahms later suggested: A Human Requiem. It couldn’t be more relevant in 2017