Los Angeles
Fool’s Gold and Benin City, Camden Bar FlyTuesday, 27 April 2010![]() Fool’s Gold’s debut album brims over with the enthusiasm of a band who have discovered - primarily through African music - that there’s another way to play the electric guitar other than to just form workman-like bar-chords, stamp down hard on the... Read more... |
London Symphony Orchestra, Adams, Barbican HallFriday, 12 March 2010![]() Adams began with two Debussy preludes swept by a different kind of wind in Colin Matthews's ingenious, luminous orchestrations. Well, windswept was the idea, but there was no more elemental scouring here than by all accounts there had been in the... Read more... |
The Kreutzer SonataTuesday, 09 March 2010![]() For scalpel-sharp dissection of the most vapid parts of Hollywood/LA life, told with low-budget digital flexibility that itself critiques studio indulgences, British director Bernard Rose is your man. He hit the note most viscerally in Ivansxtc a... Read more... |
Music Go Music, Hoxton Bar & KitchenWednesday, 10 February 2010![]() The Hoxton area of Shoreditch is a strange place for gigs by bands with general appeal. Specialist acts bring specialist crowds who know what they're going to get, but any like Music Go Music – whose records show a huge pop sensibility – will... Read more... |
Rustie, Dâm Funk, LightboxFriday, 13 November 2009![]() Londoners, we know, can be spoilt. Certainly the crowd, predominantly of nerds in rare and expensive trainers, at the Lightbox last night didn't seem to be overly bubbling with enthusiasm despite an exciting lineup of talent and astonishing... Read more... |
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