David Bowie
Michael Clark Company, Come, Been and Gone, BarbicanTuesday, 08 June 2010A second coming for Michael Clark's recent Barbican commission Come, Been, Gone. Eight months after the London premiere (on which I opined unenthusiastically below last October), he has added another 20 minutes of choreography, they said, with new... Read more... |
Iggy Pop and Suicide, Hammersmith ApolloMonday, 03 May 2010Sir Mick Jagger was not, by any means, a street fightin’ man, but his charisma and the conviction with which he sang the line, allowed us to suspend our disbelief. The song would have seemed ludicrous, pathetic even, if it had not. Iggy Pop is not,... Read more... |
I'm in a Rock'n'Roll Band, BBC TwoSaturday, 01 May 2010This new series proposes to examine the individual roles played by the members of successful rock groups, but you could tell there was trouble in store from the narrator's opening question: "What is the DNA of a great rock'n'roll band?" Like the... Read more... |
Peter Gabriel, O2 ArenaMonday, 29 March 2010Well, it wasn’t exactly the most cheerful night of my life. Especially the first half. Peter Gabriel, musical polymath and father of such irresistibly rhythmic and uplifting songs as “Sledgehammer” and “Steam”, had decided that his new world tour... Read more... |
John Cale, RFHSaturday, 06 March 2010It was Brian Wilson who started it. Eight years ago he toured Britain with a show that had at its heart a triumphant performance of his classic Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds, played – in a phrase that has become de rigueur when describing such events... Read more... |
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