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Wilco, Royal Festival HallWednesday, 15 September 2010![]() Rock music doesn’t get much better than this. For two hours, the raggedy Chicago band Wilco poured out song after song from a repertoire that stretches back 15 years, slipping effortlessly between gentle alt-country and avant-garde rock, between the... Read more... |
C W Stoneking, The Windmill, BrixtonSaturday, 28 August 2010![]() “One afternoon back in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, I met four scientists in a bar, they were on their way to West Africa to study a parasitic worm that attacks the eyeballs of human beings and turns them into blind men.” And so begin the sleeve notes... Read more... |
Alan Moore's Unearthing, Old Vic TunnelsFriday, 30 July 2010![]() It's very hard to ever know what to expect from Alan Moore, the Mage of Northampton. The author of era-defining comics like Watchmen, V For Vendetta and From Hell has long maintained that art and magic are one and the same, and since the mid-1990s... Read more... |
Interview: Os MutantesFriday, 16 July 2010![]() Arnaldo Baptista of Os Mutantes is telling me why South American music can be so compelling: "It's the historical mix, Incas, black Africans, Europeans, beings from Outer Space." I beg his pardon. "Oh, yes, I have seen many flying saucers". Arnaldo... Read more... |
Glastonbury at 40, BBC FourSunday, 20 June 2010![]() You could tell Glastonbury at 40 was in trouble as early as the opening three minutes, when it cut from a well-heeled, ageing hippie survivor mumbling about “earth magic” to footage of Robbie Williams in 1998 bashing his way through the entirety of... Read more... |
Ditch, Old Vic TunnelsWednesday, 19 May 2010![]() Dystopia is a genre that works like a rhetorical device. Take a government policy — let’s say the war in Afghanistan — then list the bad effects that this has had on the British people, exaggerate by a factor of ten, or more, add some obscure but... Read more... |
Would Like to Meet, Barbican CentreMonday, 26 April 2010![]() Is there such a thing as iPod theatre for a new digital generation? Given the enormous boom in site-specific performances and the growing use of electronic gadgets, the answer seems like yes, and this new show by non zero one - a group of recent... Read more... |
Malcolm McLaren: 1946-2010Friday, 09 April 2010![]() We have lost one of the great cultural catalysts of our time, a brilliant provocateur, a different kind of artist. Malcolm McLaren was a dear friend, who will be painfully missed – we spent, for example, Millennium Eve together with a few friends in... Read more... |
Magnetic Fields, Barbican HallTuesday, 23 March 2010![]() The Magnetic Fields were in London for a concert that could only have been, for them, a less frenetic affair than their last appearance in the capital a couple of years ago, when they arrived at the airport to find that their entire collection of... Read more... |
Kim Noble, Soho TheatreThursday, 10 December 2009![]() ‘'You must see this show!” “You must not go to this show!” Faced with those exhortations from friends and colleagues who had already seen (and been quite shocked by) it, I of course go to Kim Noble Will Die at the Soho Theatre. I was trepidatious... Read more... |
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