Sebastian Scotney
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We...
Looking for answers to what qualifies an album for a makeover and its attendant return to record shop racks can cause heads to spin. Multiple...
The Last Five Years, Garrick Theatre review - bittersweet mu...
Much has happened in the five years since your reviewer braved the steep rake at The Other Palace and saw The Last Five Years...
Gagarine review - hazy cosmic jive in a Paris banlieue
This is the story of a boy and a building. Sixteen-year-old Youri (newcomer Alseni Bathily) lives, with his telescope, in Cité Gagarine, a vast...
Nicola Benedetti, Barbican Hall review – from Bach to the Hi...
If a standard-sized recital hall can be a lonely place for a solo violinist, playing an auditorium of Barbican dimensions must feel like crossing...
Creature, English National Ballet, Sadler's Wells revie...
If a new ballet can be doomed by the weight of expectation, then...
'Rest now, you God': remembering bass-baritone Nor...
Few singers really change your life. Norman Bailey did that for me [writes David Nice of theartsdesk]. The occasion wasn't my first experience of...
Barry Adamson: Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars rev...
For those not familiar with the murkier corners of British rock...
The Ballad of Billy McCrae review - beware the quarryman...
An entertaining but undernourished industrial-domestic neo-noir set in South...