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The Flight of the Conchords at the O2 Arena review ****
The Flight of the Conchords The O2 Arena, 20th June 2018 Father and Son Deana and Ian The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room) Inner City Pressure Bowie Chips and Dips Albi The Racist Dragon 1353 (Woo a Lady) The Ballad of Stana Bus Driver’s Song Mutha’uckas / Hurt Feelings…
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Monet and Architecture at the National Gallery review *****
Monet and Architecture National Gallery, 14th June 2018 I am not the biggest fan of Monet’s later, post-Giverny work. Loved the actual garden, the white suits, the pipe, the spectacular beard, the repetition and the joy. But the colours make me queasy and the smudginess is disorientating. I know that…
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Beast film review *****
Beast, 14th June 2018 I can be pretty certain I am going to thoroughly enjoy a film in a cinema. I can go when pretty much no-one else is there, to a showing near the end of a run, which satisfies my misanthropy and intolerance of distraction, and I can…
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Leave Taking at the Bush Theatre review *****
Leave Taking Bush Theatre, 13th June 2018 I confess I had never heard of Winsome Pinnock’s 1987 play Leave Taking until this season’s announcement for the Bush. Shocking for someone who considers themselves to be a theatre obsessive. I still have so much to learn. Still theatre is always the…
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Tallis Scholars and Peter Philips at Cadogan Hall review ****
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director) Cadogan Hall, 7th June 2018 Robert White – Domine, quis habitabit John Sheppard – Missa Cantate John Sutton – Salve regina Robert White – Magnificat Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium I just cast my eye over an article in the Guardian purporting to…