Michael Stephen Clark
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Wyn, Dwyer, McAteer, RSNO & Choirs, Diakun, Usher Hall,...
Carmina Burana isn’t a masterpiece: it’s primarily a bit of fun; fun to listen to, fun to play, really fun to sing.
Few and far...
Kenny Barron Trio, Ronnie Scott's review - a master of...
Kenny Barron, revered as the best jazz pianist around, is a perfect gentleman and a master of “cool” – a quality once described in great depth by...
Gerhardt, BBC Philharmonic, Chauhan, Bridgewater Hall, Manch...
Anna Clyne’s This Moment had its UK ...
Album: Body Count - Merciless
Rapper, actor and occasional media celebrity, Ice-T’s heavy metal band, Body Count have been around since the early ‘90s and have turned out some...
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat review - jazz-themed docume...
The British writer and Africa specialist Michela Wrong recently wrote a whistle-stop summary of the upheavals that afflicted Congo in the early...
Gladiator II review - can lightning strike twice?
It has been nearly 25 years since Russell Crowe enjoyed his Oscar-winning finest hour as Maximus in Ridley Scott’s thunderous epic, Gladiator...
Music Reissues Weekly: Magazine - Real Life, Secondhand Dayl...
“Let's walk down memory lane the Magazine way. Let's regurgitate fifth-rate Low [the David Bowie album] period pieces. Let's plonk plonk...
Bob Dylan, Royal Albert Hall review - cracked ritual from ro...
Will Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour ever come to an end? Two years on from the last UK tour, he’s returned, with substantially the same band, once...
The Elixir of Love, English National Opera review - a tale o...
Sparkling Italian comic opera might have been just the tonic at this time. Trouble is, the bar was set so high recently by Wexford Festival Opera’...