Owen Richards
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Raya, Hampstead Downstairs review - a richly fraught reunion
Thirty years on, Alex and Jason meet at a university reunion and cab it back to Jason’s old student house where Alex is thinking “probably…” and...
Album: John Grant - Boy From Michigan
While recognisably a John Grant album, Boy From Michigan brings on board something new and unprecedented – an outside producer. Welcome,...
Physical, Apple TV+ review - too much pain, not enough gain
It’s not easy to sum up Physical in a pithy...
Blu-ray: Flowers of Shanghai
Rounding out a decade of personal success – beginning with his Cannes Jury Prize-winning The Puppetmaster (1993), followed by a...
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 Final, BBC Four review...
A massive musical hope for the future is what we all need right now, after 14 stop/semi-start months and a threatened decimation of the concert...
Young Pilgrims, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review – rauco...
With a third wave of Covid-19 being widely predicted...
Ivan the Terrible, Grange Park Opera review - from tsar to S...
All 15 of Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas deserve to...
Album: Angélique Kidjo - Mother Nature
Hailing from Benin and based in Paris since she was 23, Angélique Kidjo can sing in five languages, has...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Dungen - Stadsvandringar
Dungen’s October 2005 appearance on Late Night With Conan O'Brien was incongruous. Here was a...
Solstice, English National Ballet, RFH review - a midsummer...
“A tonic to the nation”. That was the hoped-for effect of the Festival of Britain in 1951, and its concrete legacy was the...