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Rock ‘n’ Roll Britannia, BBC Four
Friday, 17 May 2013
From being “a strange facsimile of the original” to generating the “first British record made by people who are 100 per cent convinced that they doing the right thing”, Rock ‘n’ Roll Britannia breezily mapped the protracted birth of a British rock scene which could take America on at its own game. As Cliff Richard put it, what was created was “different enough to become European. Or otherworldly.” It took The Beatles to crack America, but they would not have done so without being rookies in...
Bullet Catch, Spiegeltent, Brighton
Friday, 17 May 2013
Magicians’ online forums are seething at Bullet Catch’s host and writer-director, the Scottish actor and magician Rob Drummond. This is because at one point in the show he levitates a small table then takes an audience poll as to who would like to know how the trick is done. When a majority vote they’d like to know, he shows us, simple as that. The irritation of his peers is understandable but Bullet Catch, a hit at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, isn’t really a magic show – although it contains...
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