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Hatton Garden, ITV review - ancient burglars bore againTuesday, 21 May 2019
Have we passed peak Hatton Garden? It’s now four years since a gang of old lags pulled off the biggest heist of them all. They penetrated a basement next door to a safe-deposit company, drilled through the wall, and made off with many millions quids... Read more... |
Summer of Rockets, BBC Two review - pride and prejudice in 1950s BritainWednesday, 22 May 2019
Hallelujah! At last the BBC have commissioned a Stephen Poliakoff series that makes you want to come back for episode two (and hopefully all six), thanks to a powerful cast making the most of some perceptively-written roles.His most recent efforts,... Read more... |
Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport, ITV review - 80 million passengers but not much actionWednesday, 22 May 2019
It’s remarkable that this meandering observational documentary about the five square mile airport west of London has stretched to a fifth series. Heathrow may have 77,000 staff and expect 80 million passengers to pass through this year, but that... Read more... |
Benjamin Grosvenor, Barbican review - virtuosity at its classiestFriday, 17 May 2019
It’s 15 years since Benjamin Grosvenor first strolled onto our TV screens as a prodigiously gifted child in the BBC Young Musician Competition. Today he is a self-possessed young man of 26, in his element on the concert platform, yet without a hint... Read more... |
The Firm, Hampstead Theatre review - ferociously funny exploration of gang cultureWednesday, 15 May 2019
We are living in a time when gang culture rips and roars its way down London streets, and through newspaper headlines, at increasingly alarming levels. Recent news reports revealed how a surge in knife and gun crime is leading to more young black... Read more... |
Nouvelle Vague, Islington Assembly Hall review - the dreamy bossa nova collective returnThursday, 25 April 2019
When you’re off to Islington’s beautiful Assembly Hall for an evening of slinky French bossa nova, it’s something of a surprise to find the Gallic groovers preceded by a droll Brummie singer who brings to mind a cross between Billy Bragg and Richard... Read more... |
CD: Loyle Carner - Not Waving, But DrowningWednesday, 17 April 2019
When poetic London MC Loyle Carner first appeared a couple years ago he was hailed for his fresh take on UK hip hop. Compared to the street-centric machismo of much grime music, he offered a welcome insight into a more sensitive 21st century... Read more... |
Voces8, Cadogan Hall review – masterful madrigal singing and moreFriday, 05 April 2019
The vocal octet Voces8, approaching its 15th anniversary, is a purring musical machine: vocally top-notch, precisely and exhaustively rehearsed, imaginative in repertoire and equally at home in Monteverdi and Duke Ellington. And if the classical... Read more... |
Pitzhanger Manor review - letting the light back inTuesday, 02 April 2019
When in 1800 the architect Sir John Soane bought Pitzhanger Manor for £4,500, he did so under the spell of optimism, energy and hope. The son of a bricklayer, Soane had – through a combination of talent, hard work and luck – risen through... Read more... |
Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel, English National Opera review - powerful ensemble, wrong subjectSunday, 31 March 2019
If you can’t put a name to any of Jack the Ripper’s victims – and spin it however you please, victims they remain – then you shouldn’t buy the publicity about this new opera "bringing dignity back" to the murdered women in question. Isn’t it time to... Read more... |
Victoria, Series 3, ITV review - can Her Maj cope with the Age of Revolution?Monday, 25 March 2019
ITV has an enviable knack for creating populist historical costume dramas which never seem to wear out, despite a million rotations on ITV3. Once everybody had got over the shock of a young and glamorous Queen Victoria, who had previously... Read more... |
Vasari Singers, Backhouse, St Bride’s Fleet Street review - rarely heard choral classic soarsSaturday, 23 March 2019
London performances of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir are like Meaningful Votes: you wait a long time for one, then they come in clusters. After last night’s Vasari Singers performance, there is only three weeks till the London Concord... Read more... |
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