David Benedict
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Cardiff Castle revi...
Blessed with a red sunset and an adoring crowd, Noel Gallagher brought life to the ruins of...
Spice Girls, Croke Park, Dublin review - uncomplicated fun
They’re back and they’re looking and sounding good – and Spice Girls mania took over Dublin’s city centre for several hours before...
Cannes 2019: Matthias & Maxime review - a gently charmin...
It has been ten years since Canadian auteur...
The Waterboys, Roundhouse review - energetic delights
Was it imagination or did The Waterboys’ audience at...
Too Late To Die Young review - an absorbing, Chilean coming-...
Chilean Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is...
CD: Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith - The Peyote Dance
Soundwalk Collective is a multi-disciplinary audio-visual collective founded by Stephan Crasneanscki, a musical psycho-geographer and field...
Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gershon, Sellars, Barbican revie...
By some strange alignment of the stars, Peter Sellars’s staged version of Orlando di Lasso’s...
Rocketman review - fabulous musically but a tad miserable to...
Rocketman opens with its hero in flamboyant stage costume stomping into a drab group therapy session. Pulling the sparkling horns off his...
Four Quartets, Barbican Theatre review - ultimate stage poet...
The first surprise is that this hasn’t been done before. The poems that comprise TS Eliot’s...