- 1 April 2022
With spring in full bloom the season of festivals is about to start. Over in...
- 31 March 2022
Bess Atwell’s 2021 album ‘Already, Always’ packs the softest punch. Appearing on the horizon in...
- 28 March 2022
Local entrepreneur Steve Barrey has his fingers in many pies and one of the tastiest...
- 25 March 2022
Ben Solomon’s 2003 album ‘Torrington Haze’ is, in some ways, aptly named. It evokes the...
- 22 March 2022
Can there be art about Auschwitz? Of the 1.3 million people sent to the concentration...
Reviews
Romeo & Juliet
- 24 September 2012
And so the scene was set in ‘fair Verona’ for Icarus Theatre’s take on Shakespeare’s...
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Barnabás Kelemen (violin), Rory Macdonald (conductor)
- 24 September 2012
We warmed to Rory Macdonald instantly when he introduced Dvořák’s ‘Noonday Witch’, a gruesome story....
Rival Sons
- 24 September 2012
The band took to the stage with maximum strutting and preening from front man Jay Buchanan...






