At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

  • 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…

  • Babette’s Feast at the Print Room Coronet review ****

    Babette’s Feast Print Room at the Coronet, 10th May, 2017 Ahh Babette’s Feast. A gently understated but uplifting Oscar winning film directed by Gabriel Axel (it beat Au Revoir Les Enfants to the 1987 foreign film prize !!) that ranks pretty high up on my list of all time faves.…

  • City of Glass at the Lyric Hammersmith review **

    City of Glass Lyric Hammersmith, May 11th 2017 So I remembered too late. I have thumbed copies of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy so I think I must have read it, or at the very least City of Glass, when it came out in the 1980’s as any young, trendyish, new-to-theworld-of-work-but-still-able-to-go-out,…

  • The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre review *****

    The Ferryman Royal Court Theatre, 11th May 2017 Right then. For once the tourist finds himself not seeing a performance near the end of the run, casting off his usual workshy approach to blog posting and sufficiently motivated to rave about something. So just to say THIS IS FECKING OUTSTANDING. If…

  • Tim Gill (cellist) at Kings Place review *****

    London Sinfonietta’s Tim Gill: Avant Cello Kings Place, 6th May 2017 Tim Gill – cello Fali Pavri – piano Sound Intermedia Anton Webern – 3 kleine Stücke, Op. 11, Olivier Messiaen – ‘Louange à l’Éternite du Jesus Christ’ (‘Praise to the eternity of Jesus’) from Quartet for the End of…

  • Lady Macbeth film review ****

    Lady Macbeth, 3rd May 2017 So a bit of an aside first. Went to see that Sense of an Ending at the cinema but never got round to reviewing it. Bit pointless now as it has probably been and gone from all those arthouse cinemas where it might have got…

  • Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos at St John’s Smith Square review ****

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: The Brandenburgs St John’s Smith Square, 2nd May 2017 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 JS Bach. Tick. Brandenburg Concertos.…

  • Madame Rubinstein at the Park Theatre review ****

    Madame Rubinstein Park Theatre, 4th May 2017 Jez Bond and his team at the Park Theatre (with the help and goodwill of assorted North London luvvies I think) are doing an ever more successful job in my view in staging new plays and productions that people want, or should want,…

  • David Hockney at Tate Britain review ****

    David Hockney Tate Britain, 2nd May 2017 OK so this is embarrassing so I will get it out of the way. I didn’t really know David Hockey’s works beyond a cursory glance at a handful of works in permanent collections and some mixed exhibitions and didn’t really know what all…

  • Steve Reich’s Drumming and Tehillim at the Royal Festival Hall review *****

    The Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals Royal Festival Hall, 5th May 2017 Steve Reich – Tehillim 1981 Steve Reich – Drumming 1971 There are a handful of sacred founding texts when it comes to the world of US minimalist music. Terry Riley’s In C certainly, John Adams’s Harmonielehre and Short…