Reviews

The Moody Blues: Timeless Flight Tour

The Moody Blues: Timeless Flight Tour

- 10 June 2015

Evergreen rock band The Moody Blues brought their unique fusion of psychedelic, progressive and symphonic...

The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap

- 10 June 2015

Welcome to Monkswell, an old monastery with dark cellars and interesting back passages. You are...

A Mass For Hercules – BREMF Consort of Voices, Deborah Roberts (director)

A Mass For Hercules – BREMF Consort of Voices, Deborah Roberts (director)

- 7 June 2015

It began with Joaquin des Prez’s stately motet “Præter rerum seriem”, which Cipriano de Rore...

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys

- 4 June 2015

God Only Knows how they do it, but The Beach Boys are still on the...

Black Is The Color Of My Voice

Black Is The Color Of My Voice

- 2 June 2015

Apphia Campbell both wrote and starred in this brilliant one-woman show, playing and singing Nina...

My Friend Lester

My Friend Lester

- 2 June 2015

Framed by Billie Holiday’s famous exclamation at Lester Young’s funeral (unrepeatable here!), this performance sought...

Shit-faced Shakespeare

Shit-faced Shakespeare

- 27 May 2015

A real gem, yet again, bringing Shakespeare to the masses with the heady scent of...

Lorraine & Alan

Lorraine & Alan

- 27 May 2015

This beautifully staged and devised story of love, myth and sea mammals off the British...

Butterfly Catcher

Butterfly Catcher

- 27 May 2015

Wow. It’s easy to forget or dismiss the trauma of schooldays. Butterfly Catcher, from Luton’s...

Lost In Transit

Lost In Transit

- 26 May 2015

The quest to locate a lost suitcase ‎is never an easy one. But imagine if...

The Hallé – Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Gareth Small (trumpet) Brighton Festival Chorus  Mark Elder (conductor)

The Hallé – Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Gareth Small (trumpet) Brighton Festival Chorus Mark Elder (conductor)

- 24 May 2015

I always knew this would be a splendid concert and my high expectations were wonderfully...

The Diary of One Who Disappeared

The Diary of One Who Disappeared

- 22 May 2015

A selection of Brahms’ German folksongs was a light opener, with mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley using...