Barney Harsent
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Copywriter, editor, and author of Music Top 10s (Bounty), Barney is a music fanatic. He is the former host of Back and to the Left, his radio show on boxfrequency.fm, and is a surprisingly capable barman.
Articles By Barney Harsent
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Album: Elton John, The Lockdown Sessions - review
I always thought those celebrity duets albums, recorded across the miles – or sometimes with someone who had long since passed to the great arena...
Grenfell: Value Engineering, The Tabernacle review - bruisin...
Grenfell: Value Engineering isn’t actually a play. It’s an edited version of the testimony heard by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry,...
L'Heure Exquise, Linbury Theatre review - an exquisite...
Ballet dancers, even the greatest, don’t expect longevity. There are no Maggie Smiths or Helen Mirrens in the ballet world – there just aren’t the...
Dune review - awesome display of sci-fi world-building
I’d venture that Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965...
Colin Currie Group, RFH review - Reich premiere explores fre...
Single-composer programmes can be a bit dicey and there was a bit of trepidation approaching this one as Steve Reich is not a composer of massive...
Dave Chappelle: The Closer, Netflix review - race and class...
Say what you like about Dave Chappelle, but if nothing else he's an equal-opportunities offender, as his latest Netflix special, The Closer...
Rufus Wainwright, London Palladium review - superb musicians...
Rufus Wainwright believes opera to be “the greatest art form that has...
Die ägyptische Helena, Fulham Opera review - mythological me...
So Helen of Troy arrives at a church in Fulham via Poseidon’s island palace and a pavilion at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. She’s trickier than...
Love and Other Acts of Violence, Donmar Warehouse review - s...
This is simultaneously a love story and an archaeology of hate, a...
Rice, Orange Tree Theatre review - whip-smart, but unsure wh...
“Careful, there’s a hole in the floor.” The warning’s an unusual one, passed along conscientiously by the stewards at the door of the tiny...