Simon Munk
Bio
Award-winning specialist journalist in videogames, technology, cycling and outdoors products. Experienced copywriter. Competent videogame script editor and writer. Half-finished novelist. Mediocre tea maker.
Articles By Simon Munk
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CBSO, Volkov, Symphony Hall Birmingham review - Mahler goes...
Just over a decade ago it was predicted by those supposedly in the know that Ilan Volkov would succeed Sakari Oramo as music director of the...
Who’s Afraid of Drawing? Works on Paper from the Ramo Collec...
Paper is traditionally the medium though which artists think. Stray thoughts and experiments can be quickly tried out, pushed further or...
Avengers: Endgame review - Marvel save the biggest and best...
The Earth’s mightiest defenders are back in a triumphant climax, 11 years in the making. Despite a three hour runtime and an overstuffed preceding...
Ain't Misbehavin', Southwark Playhouse review - a...
The joint is jumpin’ at Southwark Playhouse, now hosting an irresistible...
Mitten wir im Leben sind, De Keersmaeker, Queyras, Rosas, Sa...
All Bach is dance, a teacher once told me. The justifiable...
Nouvelle Vague, Islington Assembly Hall review - the dreamy...
When you’re off to Islington’s beautiful Assembly Hall for an evening of slinky...
Rodrigo y Gabriela, Roundhouse - sound and (new) noise
It was in the early 2000s in a tiny, gritty Camden bar that I first saw Rodrigo y Gabriela live. Camden was less pretty then - a look was close to...
Mark Thomas, BAC review - impassioned polemic about the NHS
Mark Thomas issues a health warning for Check-Up: Our NHS at 70 at Battersea Arts Centre – “This show...
CD: P!nk - Hurts 2B Human
Look behind the lyrics of some of P!nk’s biggest hits, and you’ll see that those powerhouse vocals and big pop-rock...