For a man who disliked American-inflected pop, Ewan MacColl wrote some matchless international hits. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, covered by the Chicago soulstress Roberta Flack, is as ...

"Dirty Old Town" being sung by a Dublin bartender? Nothing better. It’s a scene familiar to plenty of pub patrons - at the end of the night (and a feed of pints) someone is bound to begin an earnest ...

The Bowery turns into a nexus of shattered dreams when a merchant has 72 hours to pay his rent. Gritty and evocative, Dirty Old Town is a rare glimpse of Downtown New York. (Daniel Levin, Jenner Furst ...

Ewan MacColl knew it well. His ode to Salford, Dirty Old Town, opens with the lyric: “I met my love by the gasworks wall/Dreamed a dream by the old canal.” Now the city’s rusting gasworks are to be ...

Abel Ferrara receives a special thanks at the end of this underground production, and it’s easy to see why: the movie’s grungy celebration of Manhattan fringe culture would be inconceivable without ...