Taqwacore punks/Wainwright & Thompson | Pop/Folk review

Southbank Centre, LondonRichard Thompson converted to Islam in the mid-1970s, and the bravest, if not most successful, event of his Meltdown festival was surely this concert featuring young American bands who are trying to match Sufism with rock music. There were sets at the Queen Elizabeth Hall from two "taqwacore punk" bands, while a documentary about their backgrounds and their clashes with more puritanical Muslims was showing in the Purcell Room.The film was more interesting than the music, ...

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