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Music Reissues Weekly: Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Fri...
After the March 1969 UK release of the “Return of Django” single, prospective performers of the song could buy it transcribed as sheet music. On...
Prom 62, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, Bavarian RSO, Rattle...
Mahler’s Sixth is one of those apocalyptic megaliths that shouldn’t be approached too often by audiences or conductors. It’s been a constant in...
Ballet Nights #006, Cadogan Hall review - a mixed bag of exc...
It’s exactly a year since Ballet Nights, the self-styled taster platform for ...
Kaos, Netflix review - playing fast and profuse with the Gre...
The ancient Greeks would probably have liked a lot about Charlie Covell‘s manipulation of mythic material. After all, Euripides was prepared to...
The Allergies, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review - funky...
The Allergies kicked off their Freak the Speaker tour in Birmingham this week. However, the album that they were promoting was nowhere to...
The Silver Cord, Finborough Theatre review - Sophie Ward is...
One of the Finborough Theatre’s Artistic Director, Neil McPherson’s, gifts is an uncanny ability to find long-forgotten...
Album: LL COOL J - THE FORCE
This album only has one serious flaw: LL COOL J didn’t open it with “OK you can call it a comeback”. Sorry, cheap joke (if you didn’t know, his...
Prom 61, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rattle review -...
Hot on the glittering heels of the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle brought another stellar German outfit to the...
Gossip, SWG3, Glasgow review - powerhouse voice provokes onl...
Beth Ditto protests too much. 'Do you feel young" she hollered early on, before adding "I don't", one of several references during the gig...
The Third Man rides again - 75th anniversary of Carol Reed...
It was originally released in Britain 75 years ago this month, making its debut in a small cinema in Hastings on 1 September 1949, and quite a few...