Matthew Romain
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The Essex Serpent, Apple TV+ review - tradition and supersti...
Sarah Perry’s 2016 bestseller The Essex Serpent has been described as “a novel of ideas”, which almost sounds like a warning to anybody...
Tallies, Old Blue Last review - Canadian quintet rejuvenates...
Toronto’s Tallies have acknowledged their fondness for Aztec...
Charli XCX, O2 Academy, Glasgow review - sweat-drenched pop...
“This town makes me sweat”, declared Charlotte Aitchison at one point in this set, as she took a brief breather between songs. The 29-year-old...
Vortex review – an old couple's road to nowhere
Life, opined Thomas Hobbes, is “nasty, brutish, and short”. In...
Album: Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel
Since their 2010 debut, Man Alive, Everything Everything have dissected the various structures of human relationships, from socio-...
The Great Escape 2022, Brighton, review - sunshine, queues,...
My friend George claims to have nightmares about The Great Escape. In them he’s standing in an endless queue, never reaching the front, never...
The Breach, Hampstead Theatre review - profoundly uncomforta...
Jude is the kind of girl that no-one would want to mess with – she can dance like a demon to Eric Clapton, skewer an ego in seconds and hit an...
Ozark, Series 4 Part 2, Netflix review - crumbling conscienc...
As the final slew of episodes in the last series of Ozark...
Vondráček, LSO, Tilson Thomas, Barbican review - mixed messa...
Conductor and pianist came at Liszt from opposite directions last...
Andy Zaltzman, Soho Theatre review - satire on the hoof
Andy Zaltzman comes on stage to deliver a short preamble to his show Satirist For Hire. Much of the hour is suggested by the audience as...