Reading Time: 2 minutesCelebrating 60 years of Pet Sounds, the concert
began with the album performed in full in the first half, before moving on to a selection of the
band’s best-known hits in the second half, along with a few lesser-known songs for the die-
hard fans.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA meditation on growing up with moments that feel kidnapped from real life.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn entertaining, but fatal blow to the musical theatre scene.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGS X2 at Ronnie Scott’s, the show born of a collaboration between cellist Gabriella Swallow and clarinettist Giacomo Smith, is a seamless melding of classical and jazz that shows how much both genres can learn from the other. The rest of the ensemble consisted of the acclaimed jazz musicians Joe Webb (piano) and Will Sach (bass).
Reading Time: 3 minutesA gently absurd ecofable where out-of-work scarecrows run a DIY radio station post-apocalypse.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Guildhall School of Music presents a performance that is truly site-specific, with 5 unique pieces well deserving of their grand and illustrious setting, and yet like nothing the space has seen before. The organ project is a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesJefta Van Dinther presents a dystopian breakdown of industry and capitalism in this ensemble led project. Brooding and highly captivating, the piece will make you question your own place within the ever moving world. The stage is…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMemory arrives in boxes, in fragments, in the cadences of people no longer here. NIUSIA, Beth Paterson's solo show about her late grandmother, a Polish Holocaust survivor, takes this literally.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEntertainment labelled a “cult classic” often earns that status for good reason, and Northern Stage and Derby Theatre’s fresh actor-musician revival of Little Shop of Horrors proves exactly why. Plenty of letters could be removed from the production’s tagline, because this revival is simply “class”.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving known little of Cowdenbeath FC before the play, I will certainly be keeping an eye on The Blue Brazil from here on in, and cheering them and the tight community that surrounds them in the future.