Annelouisekershaw365
I’m Anne Louise Kershaw a freelance writer; Music Editor of Blankpages and Manchester's Finest & I write for Guardian Northerner and Clash Magazine amongst others . I'm Senior Editorial & Designer for Carel Press.
This is my blog where I write about music, theatre, fashion, arts & culture, gender & equality. Every time I blog I post a picture because i'm obsessed with my camera.
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Recent Posts
- Exclusive interview with Skin from Skunk Anansie
- Twitter: Procrastination, productivity and pain
- The drawbacks of Twitter bitching
- The Accrington Pals, Royal Exchange Manchester. Bitter, brutal and beautiful!
- Rats’ Tales at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre
- The Country Wife at the Royal Exchange
- I interview Shell Zenner – The godmother of new music
- Bringing classical music out of the concert hall and into the art world!
- I discuss ‘Madchester’ with Dave Haslam
- Blank Media Collective Projector Series
Tag Archives: Review
The Country Wife at the Royal Exchange
Find a review of The Country Wife that doesn’t include the word romp and i’ll eat my hat (disclaimer: I totally wont). Don’t get me wrong, this restoration comedy is certainly full of frolics, fun and feistiness (and the implication … Continue reading
Last Harbour ‘Your heart, it carries the sound’ or their sound, it carries the heart!
For a group whose music seems to sit entirely outside of time, it is interesting to know that when recording their new album Your heart, it carries the sound, Last Harbour “wanted the album to come from somewhere, to be … Continue reading
Kuedo – Work, Sleep and Live in Collapsing Space
According to my iTunes playcount, Kuedo’s album Severant has clocked-up over 200 plays. This doesn’t include the many times i’ve listened to it on my iPod out and about or in my car. It may be safe to say that … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Alt-J, Austra, Frank McCourt, Islington Mill, Kuedo, Laurel Halo, Live & Sleep in Collapsing Space, Music, Review, Tis, Work
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No Ceremony – just music worth making a fuss about
Having been sat waiting for a great new band/artist to come along for what seems like an aural age, suddenly three come along at once. One of these is No Ceremony. Now I know they’re from Manchester (as everyone who … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged CPR Agency, Electronic, Manchester, Music, No Ceremony, Review, Scott & Baily, The Rough Guide To Berlin, youtube
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It was The Slow Show – and delightfully so!
All full up on our delicious goats cheese Cornerhouse pizza, a scrummy Friday treat, we walked over to The Ruby Lounge to see The Slow Show hosted by BBC Manchester Introducing. As a band name they’ve been floating around in … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Brass, Cello, Gibson 335, Hurt, I See Angels, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Music, Nick Cave, Northern Town, Review, Streets of London, The Ruby Lounge, The Ship Song, The Slow Show
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Severant by Kuedo – the perfect soundtrack to this beautiful winter
Amidst a week of hail and sleet, facing the kind of cold concrete scapes that make it necessary to perma-wear your fella’s hoodie, I discovered at last some new music to inspire me. Being inclined towards the over-dramatics, I am … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Photography, Reviews
Tagged Austra, Berlin, Cold, Feel It Break, Hearts, I Break Horses, Kuedo, Lights and Offerings, Margaret Atwood, Memory Thumderstorm, Mirrors, Mozart Parties, Music, Niki & The Dove, Red Dawrf, Review, Severant, Sleet, Snow, The Drummer, The Fox, The Handmaid's Tale, Winter
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108 – Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues album review
108/257 When I reviewed the Helplessness Blues single before the release of the same titled album, I quoted Alan Corr who said that the harmonising ones make “music as multi-layered as a forest floor and as textured as ancient bark”. … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Alex Petriedas, Blues, Fleet Foxes, Folk, Guardian, Guitars, Helplessness Blues, Review, Robin Pecknold, Seattle
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