7 months ago
Prom 35: New York: Sound of a City, Royal Albert Hall
5/10 Featuring various styles and singers accompanied by Jules Buckley’s Heritage Orchestra, this late night prom promised to be a…
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8 months ago
Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland, Royal Albert Hall
From a Welsh sea-shanty to Scots Gaelic mouth music and a Northumbrian-dialect lament for a cow, Prom 27 presented a…
8 months ago
Preview – Dining Al Desko at Etcetera Theatre: ‘shredder-sharp satire’
It’s three minutes to nine and Julie is ready. Work-surface polished, peace-lily watered, pens fastidiously organised (Stabilo Boss next to…
12 months ago
The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl
5/10 On The Decemberists’ 2015 album What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, Colin Meloy opened with a pithy…
1 year ago
The Nutcracker and I by Alexandra Dariescu at Barbican’s Milton Court: ‘a refreshing multi-media adaption’
For some The Nutcracker has become as stale a winterval tradition as Boxing Day’s leftover Christmas pud. Not for Romanian…
1 year ago
Skaar – Sommerfugl
“Sommerfugl”, the latest release by Norwegian six-piece Skaar, opens in sombre mood: an ominous three-note bassline underpinning a hushed, pained…