Robert Sandall
Bio
Robert, who died in 2010, was a presenter of BBC Radio 3's Mixing It and formerly the Sunday Times rock critic, and also wrote on contemporary music for the Daily Telegraph, The Times and Sunday Times.
Articles By Robert Sandall
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Music Reissues Weekly: McNeal and Niles - Thrust, Wilbur Nil...
An original pressing of 1979’s Thrust fetches at least £1000. Its 1980 follow-up Thrust Too can be a relative bargain at around...
In the Middle review - the true grit of grassroots referees
In the Middle profiles10 football officials who referee and run the line of lower-league games in south-west London and north-east Surrey...
Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy, Sky Documen...
Netflix’s hit show Drive to Survive has proved that F1 can grab ratings, but Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy (Sky...
Cinderella, Royal Ballet review - the first British ballet l...
The urge to redesign a heritage ballet is a curious one, given not just the expense but the fact that the main draw of an old ballet is the steps...
Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere: Cocoa and Nothing review - ar...
In his mock-poetic manual Peri-Bathos (1728), Alexander Pope opens by describing the afflictions which beset inhabitants of the lower...
Williams, Dunedin Consort, Truscott, Wigmore Hall review - s...
When your special guest is a young soprano with all the world before her, the total artist already, your programme might seem to run itself. Yet...
Law of Tehran review - visceral Iranian police thriller
Here in Europe we mainly see subtle, lyrical Iranian films, targeted at international festivals or art house audiences, so it’s great to get the...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Complicité, Barb...
Complicité, the adventurous theatre company led today by Simon McBurney, one of its founders, is now 40. Over the last four decades, McBurney and...
Berlusconi, Southwark Playhouse Elephant review - curious ne...
One wonders if Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan pondered long over their debut musical’s title. Silvio might...