David Benedict
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BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park review – Pet Shop Boys, Westli...
You might think that being first on the bill with a half-hour slot at 1.15pm would be an affront to a band who’d had a 12-times platinum album and...
Beethoven Festival Weekend, Wigmore Hall review 1 - sparkle...
While the Proms were ringing out the old season, the...
Beethoven Festival Weekend, Wigmore Hall review 2 - total ma...
Any festival would be proud and honoured to end with the great Elisabeth Leonskaja playing the last three...
Muse, 02 review - bombastic Brit-rock with a sci-fi theme
For a band mostly known as a brilliantly ludicrous cocktail of other’s people’s sound-styles, the Simulation Theory tour is proof that...
LSO, Rattle, Barbican Hall review – visions of the beyond
Simon Rattle has a knack for unearthing large-...
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Bristol Old Vic review - Ja...
It is a truth perhaps not quite but almost universally accepted that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, beloved of GSCE English Lit...
Romesh Ranganathan, Brighton Dome review - transgressive, ed...
One question springs immediately to mind on hearing that Romesh Ranganathan’s new stand-up show, The Cynic’s Mixtape, is touring: how...
CD: Tove Lo - Sunshine Kitty
Swedish singer Tove Lo appeared at a time when female physical sexuality was being used as a raw, blunt weapon in...
Last Night of the Proms, Barton, BBCSO, Oramo review – woke...
The BBC put social and ethnic diversity at the heart of this Last Night programme. The concert...
Martin Gayford: The Pursuit of Art review - devotion, distil...
This is a book about experiences that go beyond reading about art. Martin Gayford’s 20 short essays about press trips and self-motivated travel...