Brighton Festival
Casus Circus Driftwood, Brighton Festival review - eye-boggling gymnastic theatreTuesday, 16 May 2017
There is a sequence in theatrical circus troupe Casus’ new production, Driftwood, where three of the five members sit, each between the legs of another, in a row, facing the front of the stage. They look as if they’re about to do the rowing dance... Read more... |
The Unfilmables, Brighton Festival review - lost classics get soundtracks they deserveTuesday, 16 May 2017
The main room of the Duke of York’s is humming. Brighton’s cinema-goers and music-lovers have turned out in their droves to catch Wrangler (an electronic outfit made up of Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder, Tuung’s Phil Winter, and producer Benge... Read more... |
High Focus Records showcase, Brighton Festival review - smart hip hop, dodgy soundSaturday, 13 May 2017
The two main commands coming from the stage at this evening's Brighton Festival event are “Everybody jump, jump” and “Put your hands in the air and go side-to-side”. The crowd are mostly under 30 and emanate dancing energy from the moment the doors... Read more... |
Kate Tempest with Orchestrate, Brighton Festival review - heartfelt poetic dynamiteFriday, 12 May 2017
The capacity crowd at the Brighton Dome occasionally bursts into noisy life, whooping, whistling, roaring with indignation as poet and Brighton Festival 2017 Guest Director Kate Tempest performs her album of last autumn, Let Them Eat Chaos. During... Read more... |
Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore, Brighton Festival review - impeccably crafted sillinessTuesday, 09 May 2017
There are two types of family-friendly entertainment; the kind you’d happily watch a bit of whether you have small children in tow or not (The Simpsons, The Clangers, Laurel & Hardy, etc), and those where you grit your teeth, hold your nose, and... Read more... |
Five Short Blasts, Brighton Festival review - atmospheric boat trip is set adriftTuesday, 09 May 2017
Few Brightonians now set off in boats from what was formerly the fishing village of Brighthelmstone. Not many of us even get as far as the Pier. Brighton Festival director Kate Tempest’s mission to reach the city’s far-flung corners was therefore... Read more... |
Hot 8 Brass Band, Brighton Festival review - rapturously received New Orleans party musicTuesday, 09 May 2017
New Orleans musicians are diplomats as well these days. The Crescent City’s greatest son, Louis Armstrong, once made a live album, Ambassador Satch, in which, backed by the State Department, he toured post-war Europe as the finest the USA had to... Read more... |
Under The Skin, Brighton Festival review - slow-burning sci-fi gem with live Mica Levi soundtrackMonday, 08 May 2017
There is a moment in Under The Skin when it’s finally revealed what happens to the men Scarlett Johannsson’s deadpan alien has been seducing and bringing back to her various crash pads. In the strange gloop-scape these unfortunate individuals find... Read more... |
Chineke! Orchestra, Brighton Festival / Saleem Ashkar, Wigmore HallMonday, 08 May 2017
Anyone who missed the opening Southbank concerts of the Chinike! Orchestra, figurehead of a foundation which aims to give much-needed help to young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians, could and now can (on YouTube) catch snippets of... Read more... |
For The Birds, Brighton Festival review - 'night walk into exquisite sensory thrills'Sunday, 07 May 2017
For The Birds is art as event, described in the Brighton Festival programme as “an immersive night-time adventure into a wild avian landscape”. It takes place throughout the Festival and, judging from its opening weekend, looks likely to prove very... Read more... |
Folk Singer Shirley Collins' Pick of Brighton Festival 2017Thursday, 27 April 2017
Shirley Collins was one of the Sixties British folk music revival’s central figures. Having built a reputation as a highly rated innovator and interpreter during the course of the decade (initially with her lover/partner, American folklorist Alan... Read more... |
10 Questions for Photographer Eddie OtchereFriday, 21 April 2017
Eddie Otchere is best known for the plethora of photographs he’s taken of artists from hip hop’s golden age, circa the late-Eighties/early-Nineties. He’s shot everyone from icons such as Jay-Z and Biggie Smalls, to the late Aaliyah to a startling... Read more... |
