Polly Toynbee, chaired a discussion between conservative politician Nick Gibb, the former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker, writer on education Melissa Benn, and the children’s writer Michael Rosen. This was a highly entertaining discussion, tinged with shock that the two… Read more →
The story behind John Grant is for the better part why he’s suddenly come racing down the outside track to become a much more popular figure than with his long standing band The Czars, with whom he made six, largely underachieving, albums…. Read more →
Nick’s talk was horrifyingly blunt; I experienced a terrible dawning - I thought tax havens were a marginal phenomenon, and that they were only available for dodgy rulers from far-flung countries or fat greedy cats whose reason for being is to hang on… Read more →
Irving Finkel, is an Assyriologist and curator of cuneiform inscriptions on ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets, at the British Museum. He is also a gem; a lucid, sceptical and passionate orator. He entertained his audience, who listened transfixed, with explanations and stories about… Read more →
With many suffering from first night overindulgence, the darkness of the basement seemed to be a good place to gently greet the day with an afternoon of Dutch acts. First up were this powerhouse trio, whose no nonsense unharnessed mayhem blasted away… Read more →
There has been a big buzz about this band and as people rushed into the Concorde eager to catch them it was clear that word had spread about this trio. And here’s the thing, Arcane Roots are made of three mere mortals… Read more →
Having grown up together, Marmozets have the kind of onstage chemistry and flawless delivery it makes you wonder if they are telepathic. Their front woman looked like a tiny frail thing up on the stage of the Concorde 2 but once the… Read more →
You can’t possibly have a successful Great Escape without some decent punk and hardcore bands. Title Fight brought their big punky riffs and sing-along ballads straight to the seaside. They might have been a little far from home being from Pennsylvania but… Read more →
It’s not often that we go to a concert for the accompanist but James Baillieu attracts such excellent friends. Philip Higham astonished and delighted us in equal measure with Poulenc’s Cello Sonata, a work so difficult that most cellists avoid it. Then… Read more →
An interesting premise; the show is separated into three parts. The first part utilises several iPods volunteered by the audience (their own) and put onto ‘shuffle’ mode so that an extract is played at random and two of the players step up… Read more →
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