sun 04/05/2025

Peter Culshaw

Peter Culshaw's picture
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

theartsdesk Radio Show 28 - Tony Allen tribute with guest Stephen Budd

Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 27 - direct from Sāo Paulo with guest stars including Chico César

Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 26 - with guest from the Amazon, the latest Brazilian star Arthur Nogueira

Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 25 - with bohemian chanteuse Anne Pigalle

Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 24 - hot subcontinental sounds with guest Viveick Rajagopalan

Read more...

WOMAD, Charlton Park review - a gloriously defiant global music celebration

Read more...

10th Odessa International Film Festival review - exquisite gay love stories and visionary new music

Read more...

Oumou Sangaré, Earth review - the new Mama Africa takes her crown

Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 23 - the hottest Brazil sounds for 2019 with guest Tiago Di Mauro

Read more...

theartsdesk Radio Show 22 - the autumn's newest global sounds

Read more...

'I read French from left to right and Arabic from right to left': remembering Algerian rebel rocker Rachid Taha

Read more...

BaianaSystem, Village Underground - the new Brazilian contenders

Read more...

WOMAD 2, Charlton Park review - rainbows and rumba

Read more...

David Byrne, Eventim Apollo review - twice in a lifetime?

Read more...

Ismaili a Go-Go: How the Aga Khan funded a music renaissance

Read more...

Africa: A Journey Into Music, BBC Four review - too little, too late?

Read more...

Pages

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...

Fake, ITV1 review - be careful what you wish for

The art of the conman is persuading their victim to fool themselves, which is the premise that lies at the core of this Australian drama series....

theartsdesk Q&A: film director Déa Kulumbegashvili on he...

One of the most exciting new voices in Eastern European film, Déa Kulumbegashvili is not concerned with conventional shot lengths. She has been...

Music Reissues Weekly: John McKay - Sixes and Sevens

Sixes and Sevens is a surprise. A big one. Since leaving Siouxsie and the Banshees in September 1979, John McKay has...

Pimpinone, Royal Opera in the Linbury Theatre review - farce...

Full marks to the Royal Opera for good planning: one first night knocking us all sideways with the darkest German operatic tragedy followed by...

Krapp's Last Tape, Barbican review - playing with the l...

In the Stygian darkness of a bare room, a table on a low platform with a light hanging overhead starts to emerge. Then a door briefly...

Formula E: Driver, Prime Video review - inside the world...

The success of Netflix’s Drive to Survive not only provoked a viewer-stampede towards the world’s most expensive sport, but also...

Die Walküre, Royal Opera review - total music drama

Wagner’s universe, in the second of his Ring operas which brings semi-humans on board to challenge the gods, matches exaltation and misery, terror...