- 14 May 2025
No fuss, just a ripple of applause, a moment of calm, then fortissimo G octaves....
- 13 May 2025
It’s so lovely when talented youth teaches old ears wonderful new tunes. That’s exactly what...
- 10 May 2025
What nerve! For a happy troupe of mainly middle-aged men to adopt the label of...
- 10 May 2025
Anoushka Shanka’s curating of the Brighton Festival 2025 has divided opinion, whilst many of us...
- 8 May 2025
Five excellent musicians – that is three singers, one also playing a Vielle (an early...
Reviews
Mogwai
- 28 October 2014
For newer converts to Mogwai through their soundtrack to TV show ‘The Returned’ their very...
Chewing The Fat: Selina Thompson
- 28 October 2014
Like ‘The Vagina Monologues’ for fat people. Don’t worry; she has reclaimed the ‘F’ word....
Steve Hackett: Genesis Extended
- 28 October 2014
Incendiary guitar cuts through the thick waves of mellotron while sinuously muscular bass wraps itself...






