REVIEW: Tether @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesA wonderful show that blends ceilidh dancing with the coming together of Scottish and South Korean cultures.
Category Music
REVIEW: SpitNights – Poetry Meets Improv Jazz @ The Space Symposium Hall
Reading Time: 2 minutesSetting to improvised music the words of a wonderful lineup of poets, SpitNights are on a mission to increase poetry’s audience and have become the fastest growing poetry event in the UK.
REVIEW: Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley
Reading Time: 2 minutesFour Mondays running now, Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's has now become a standing appointment for me. Classical Mondays sits a little oddly against the club's usual late-night jazz pulse but never fails to shine.
Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley have been playing together since 2017, almost a decade of creating an authentic and smooth dynamic. They opened with Mozart's Horn Quintet in E-flat, reworked for their line-up which almost became a quiet tribute, as we learnt Mozart himself once lodged across Firth Street during his London years.
REVIEW: Fempaths: Transistor Radio Hour @ Underbelly Bristo Square
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe initial element which struck me about Mari Moriarty’s live radio hour Fempaths was the care taken to ensure this performance is as accessible as possible.
REVIEW: Liberace and Liza @ Underbelly Bristo Square – Ermintrude
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat happens when two of entertainment's biggest icons are thrown together for a concert that never actually existed? The answer is 60 minutes of glorious musical mayhem.
REVIEW: Mahler’s First By Heart
Reading Time: 3 minutesMahler’s therapy session, staged first and then played flawlessly from memory A cuckoo call, and a timpanist who fluffed his cue in front of several thousand people – Aurora Orchestra’s Mahler’s First By Heart had all the…
REVIEW: Imogen Whitehead and Patrick Milne
Reading Time: 2 minutesOld friends, new tricks, and the flugelhorn as the unbilled third lead. Friends who have known each other from school make the best duos; Whitehead and Milne prove it within seconds of Gershwin’s Three Preludes. A cheeky…
REVIEW: BBC Proms 21st July
Reading Time: 3 minutesAll of the pieces were performed by the BBC Philharmonic, directed by the Finnish violinist and Chief Conductor John Storgårds.
REVIEW: Cellophonics: Wood on the Tracks
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unconventional string quartet, four cellos deep, going from Purcell to jazz without breaking a sweat! Upstairs at Ronnie’s is lit with warm sodium light and rows of chairs face the same direction, close enough to see…
REVIEW: For You Blue: Celebrating The Beatles Greatest Hits 1967–1970
Reading Time: 3 minutes"For You Blue: Celebrating The Beatles Greatest Hits 1967–1970" at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall was a lively, affectionate evening celebratng one of the greatest songbooks in popular music.