Category: Pop/Rock/Indie
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Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields at King’s Place review *****
Bang on a Can All Stars, BBC Singers, Tecwyn Evans (conductor) Kings Place Hall One, 19th January 2019 I had heard a few snippets of Julia Wolfe’s compositions but freely admit this was a bit of a leap into the unknown. Still what I had heard seemed interesting, I was keen…
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Echo and the Bunnymen at the Royal Albert Hall review *****
Echo and The Bunnymen: The Stars, the Ocean and the Moon Royal Albert Hall, 1st June 2018 Rescue Villiers Terrace – (Roadhouse Blues) All That Jazz Stormy Weather The Somnabulist Nothing Lasts Forever All My Colours Angels and Devils Bedbugs and Ballyhoo Lips Like Sugar Rust In The Margins Bring…
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Caroline, or Change at the Hampstead Theatre review *****
Caroline, or Change Hampstead Theatre, 18th April 2018 How many exceptions does it take before the rule is unproven? I don’t, as a rule, like musicals, as I have oft repeated on these very pages. I absolutely adored this though. That might be because it isn’t your classic show tunes,…
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Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle at Wyndham’s Theatre review ****
Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle Wyndham’s Theatre, 9th November 2017 Everyone’s at it. The “science” play. Science, whether directly through using theory to inform plot, or indirectly, often through the impact of ecological or other catastrophe, has underpinned many of the best new plays I have seen in the last couple…
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The Wedding Present at Cadogan Hall review ****
The Wedding Present Cadogan Hall, 14th October 2017 Regular readers of this blog (remember chums, the best clubs are exclusive) will be aware that the Tourist doesn’t really do “gigs”. It is all a bit loud for his aged ears. The number of bands/artists he would pay money to see…
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Pink Floyd exhibition at the V&A review ***
Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains V and A, 4th August 2017 Now I have always been slightly suspicious of Pink Floyd. I was only a nipper for the first few “psychedelic” albums pre and post Sid and whilst the classic trio of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were…
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My top 10 greatest ever albums
Right. My cursory examination of the world wide web suggests that there are probably more top 10 album lists than there are certain kinds of sub-atomic particles. It seems that any bloke of a certain age, with too much time and access to Amazon and/or I Tunes, will have attempted…
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