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'Touched by the seasons, by day and night, the mystic in nature, and loves lost and found' ★★★★ #EYE - DARK LIGHT - New band from MWWB MammothWeed singer #JessicaBall prove worthy of what came before, says Thomas H Green New Heavy Sounds - theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
★★ MINORITY REPORT Lyric Hammersmith Theatre - #PhilipKDick ’s #sciencefiction short story fares far better on screen than in this adaptation from #DavidHaig - ‘ill-judged sci-fi’, says Demetrios Matheou theartsdesk.com/theatre/minori…
‘Sheer pleasure in sound-making is palpable’ ★★★★★ The Jesus and Mary Chain - GLASGOW EYES - A remarkable Indian summer for East Kilbride's finest, saluted by #BassMidsTopsAndTheRest 🛸🫠theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
'The role of the curator is surely to respect the past, not to reinvent it to suit their own agenda' - A masterful review from Sarah Kent on #Expressionists Tate, packed with history and detail... And what on earth was @OlafurEliasson doing relighting a #Kandinsky ?
★★★★ Jean-Guihen Queyras @Philharmonia Masaaki Suzuki Southbank Centre - #Japan 's #Bach maestro flourishes in fresh fields, says Boyd Tonkin, as he explores #Beethoven #Schumann and #Dvořák with genial elegance and precision theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★ Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) twostrangersmusical Criterion Theatre - A Brit & a New Yorker struggle to find common ground in a lively new British #musical that gets the tenets of the genre just right - ‘rueful and funny’, says Jane Edwardes theartsdesk.com/theatre/two-st…
The Warsaw Middlesbrough 14th September 1977 / Joy Division Manchester 28th September 1979 LP is a thrilling live document of one of Britain’s greatest bands (Joy Division, Joy Division Central). A mandatory purchase. I’ve looked at it today for @theartdesk: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…
Singing as smooth as the top of a kitten's head. A Dream is all we Know is the new The Lemon Twigs LP. Out on Captured Tracks through Prescription PR. I’ve looked at it today for @theartdesk: theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
★★★★Rueful and funny musical gets West End upgrade: a Brit and a New Yorker struggle to find common ground in lively new British musical #TwoStrangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) Criterion Theatre Jane Edwardes reviews theartsdesk.com/theatre/two-st…
★★★★ Sex, relationships and death: comedy star #FernBrady 's #autisticbikiniqueen Netflix is a strong outing with some very smart lines says Veronica Lee theartsdesk.com/comedy/fern-br…
★★★ When self-assurance trumps unashamedly showcasing influences: #TheLemonTwigs new #album A Dream Is All We Know reviewed by Kieron Tyler theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
★★★★ Outside looking and listening in, always with fascination: #Götterdämmerung , London Philharmonic Orchestra , Jurowski, RFH Southbank Centre David Nice reviews a 'magnificently sung and subtly acted performance' theartsdesk.com/opera/g%C3%B6t…
Italian cinema's vigorous grand old man discusses #Kidnapped , conversion, anarchy and faith in cinema: Marco Bellocchio talks to Nick Hasted theartsdesk.com/film/theartsde…