David Kettle
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Album: Coldplay - Moon Music
From the very first chords of "Yellow" in 2000, Coldplay have been an ever present at the summit of popular music's hierarchy. Their uncanny knack...
A Tupperware of Ashes, National Theatre review - family and...
Queenie is in trouble. Bad trouble. For about a year now, this 68-year-old Indian woman has been forgetful. Losing her car keys; burning rice in...
The Old Man and the Land review - dark secrets of a farming...
The Old Man and the Land depicts a worn-out sheep farmer going about his dreary business as the seasons pass, darkly and dankly. He does...
BBC Singers, BBCSO, Jeannin, Barbican review - from stormy w...
“Bold, ambitious, and good for the sector.” So said Charlotte Moore, the BBC chief content officer, who currently earns £468,000, in March last...
Nobodaddy, Teaċ Daṁsa, Dublin Theatre Festival review - supe...
Nobodaddy, taking its title from Blake’s violent dark-god “Father of Jealousy”, is much more than a dance piece, and Michael Keegan-Dolan...
10 Questions for Black String’s Youn Jeong Heo
The first K-Music festival landed in London for than a decade ago, and has brought an eclectic range of bands and musicians from Korea to the...
Béatrice et Bénédict, Irish National Opera, National Concert...
As Fiona Shaw’s shiningly free and easy narration told us, Shakespeare’s sparring Beatrice and Benedick are merely counterpoint to a supposedly...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Royal Ballet review -...
In many ways Lewis Carroll’s 1865 compendium of literary nonsense is ideal material for...
Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning review - riding the wa...
Last year, Wendy Cope’s poem, "The Orange", went viral on TikTok. I’m not totally certain how a poem goes viral, but it did – and there’s nothing...
Album: Caribou - Honey
Dan Snaith’s career has been a joyous thing to watch. Almost a quarter of a century the Canadian started out as Manitoba (soon renamed to Caribou...