Category: Concert Reviews

December 9, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, December 5 Critics beware: skewer Elaine Paige at your peril, especially if you suffer from insomnia. Your sleeplessness may be haunted by the memory of Memory on endless repeat. Such cruel revenge! It was, therefore, a relief that this concert was a vast improvement over Paige’s 2012 performance…

December 1, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Venue 505, November 21  Flamenco is not just an art form, but an attitude. It seems to say to Death, “Not yet,” and magnifies the life force into as complete an expression of what it is to be human as may be found in any art. It can be as…

November 9, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

  The Basement, November 3 No one can ever accuse the Italians of making anaemic art. From Dante to Puccini they have never been frightened of passion and drama. If you don’t feel anything when you encounter Italian art, chances are you’re dead. Their best jazz maintains this ardour, epitomised…