Tom Baily
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The Life I Lead, Park Theatre review - pleasant enough but l...
I am deeply jealous of Miles Jupp's dressing gown in The Life I Lead,...
Soltani, LPO, Gardner, RFH review – disciplined and dynamic...
No successor has yet been named to Vladimir Jurowski as Principal Conductor of the...
My Baby, Castle & Falcon, Birmingham review – the Dutch/...
Balsall Heath’s Castle and Falcon is one of the newer live music venues in Birmingham, a city that finally seems to be undergoing something of a...
World Metal Congress, Rich Mix, London review - celebration...
The stereotypical image of heavy metal music suggests it exists in isolation from other musical styles. And while it is true that metal is...
Victoria, Series 3, ITV review - can Her Maj cope with the A...
ITV has an enviable knack for creating populist historical...
Karl Ove Knausgaard: So Much Longing in So Little Space revi...
Around the works canteen, a dozen huge wall-paintings depict, in bright cheerful colours spread across radically stylised forms, happy scenes of...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Rema-Rema - Fond Reflections
Until now, Rema-Rema’s only release was a 12-inch EP released in August 1980. It had hit shops after the band fell apart at the end of the...
CD: The Underground Youth – Montage Images of Lust and Fear
As Nick Cave has edged ever further towards mainstream acceptance with each of his recent Bad Seeds’ albums, so he has created something of a...
Blood Knot, Orange Tree Theatre review - defining apartheid-...
London's impromptu mini-season devoted to the work of Athol Fugard picks up real steam with Blood Knot, Matthew Xia's transfixing take on...
Vasari Singers, Backhouse, St Bride’s Fleet Street review -...
London performances of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir are like Meaningful Votes: you wait a long time for one, then they come in...