Javi Fedrick
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Album: Aitch - Close to Home
22 is a pretty young age to be jaded. But this album starts out with Mancunian rapper Aitch detailing how tough it is at the top, and how...
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 reviews: Jake Lambert / Bella Hull / J...
Jake Lambert, Pleasance Courtyard ★★...
The Trials, Donmar Warehouse review – chillingly compelling
Dystopian theatre takes many forms — but this is the first which is a jury-room drama. Dawn King has previously explored the world of double-think...
Prom 40, Moore, RPO, Petrenko review - orchestral clarity, a...
It does need saying: the RPO may receive less frequent plaudits than some of their London peers, but this is a fine and wonderfully responsive...
Wonderville Magic and Cabaret - fast-paced show delivers the...
There’s nothing quite like magic, live, up close and personal. Sure there are the TV spectaculars, the casino resort mega-shows and...
Salome, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Gardner, Edinburgh In...
It is quite some years, if not decades, since the Edinburgh International Festival had any claim to be a festival of staged opera. This year we...
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 reviews: Hal Cruttenden / Zach Zucker...
Hal Cruttenden, Pleasance Courtyard ★...
Album: Hot Chip - Freakout/Release
You know those people who claim to literally only like the very first music a band does at the start of their career, then kind “Meh” decades-...
Prom 39, Hartwig, BBCSO, Oramo review - bright and breezy fo...
Two quirky concertos – one for orchestra, though it might also be called a sinfonietta – and a big symphony: best of British but, more important,...
Room, Edinburgh International Festival 2022 review - decaden...
"I feel I owe you an explanation." That much James Thierrée concedes partway through his sprawling, freewheeling, dream-like, hallucinatory ...