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Live band! **
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** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. Battles, who headlined the Green Man’s Folkey Dokey stage on Saturday night (playing opposite Robert Plant, who was on the main stage in front of arguably fewer people), provoked the first encore I witnessed at the festival. The audience simply howled until they reappeared.
by Tony D’Souza
reviewed by Ben Oswest
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An edited version of this review originally ran in the 4 February 2007 Sunday Independent.
To the outsiders who have tried their luck in Africa, when it comes time to write a novel about it, the first struggle is with political realism. Should their story be set in the actual African country where they did their deeds, or, more delicately, in a territory that bears all the clues, but remains nameless, or masquerades under a pseudonym? The artless title of Tony D’Souza’s first novel reveals his choice: Whiteman is an clear declaration in favour of reality.
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, IL, USA. Single exposure (Nikon 990), “raw� jpeg - no editing, cropping, “developing�, etc.
