Boyd Tonkin
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Alan Carr, Milton Keynes Theatre review - comic keeps it rel...
Lots of stand-ups plunder their personal lives...
Album: Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Six months after the release of Common Ground, neo-proggers Big Big Train return with another...
The Responder, BBC One review - the loneliness of the long-d...
Cops on the box… don’t we just love ‘em? From Jimmy Perez and Ted Hastings to Inspector Reid from Ripper Street and Stella Gibson from...
Bournemouth SO, Karabits, Lighthouse, Poole review - go east...
Focusing on music composed in the former countries of the old...
Tessa Hadley: Free Love review - the Sixties, the suburbs an...
Free Love opens in 1967 and remains within that heady era throughout; no flashbacks, no spanning of generations as in Hadley's wonderful...
Total Immersion: Music for the End of Time review - miracles...
History’s most grotesque act of cynicism has to be the model ghetto the...
America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery review – a country in jeo...
America in Crisis revisits an exhibition staged in 1969 soon after Richard Nixon was elected President. Pictures taken by 18 Magnum...
LPO, Canellakis, Royal Festival Hall review - ecstatic sonor...
This remarkable evening should really have been more remarkable still. The unfortunate pianist Cédric Tiberghien took an official pre-travel Covid...
Album: Fiona Monbet – Maelström
Fiona Monbet is a phenomenal violinist with a huge expressive range. Her credentials, above all in...