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...A fine performance by the Heath Quartet carries the listener through its fast-changing landscape. ★★★★☆ ‘Bracing Change 2’ is released by NMC...
...A balcony bar spills out on to the front, giving surprising views north towards Hampstead Heath, but more surprising is the repurposing of the back of house....
...The flags I bought years ago eventually became a suit for a recent picture of the grime MC Afrikan Boy....
...Next week we’re talking about the streaming wars with Chris Grimes and then bees. Jonathan Guthrie puts a monetary value and a very high one on the debt we owe them....
...Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime , by Dan Hancox, William Collins RRP£20 Inner City Pressure is a deft account of grime music’s rise from east London council estates in the late 1990s to its current...
...The 791 acres of heath remain at the heart of Hampstead’s appeal....
...The BBC’s set-up is one of those organic, improvised arrangements in British life, owing more to Heath Robinson than to rational planning, which works and has worked and offers great value....
...But beyond the exhaust fumes and grime there’s a growing buzz about the place. There are excellent shops, pubs and restaurants. It’s got a newly refurbished swimming pool complex....
...Christopher Grimes is an FT correspondent in New York....
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