Tom Baily
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Album: McFly - Power to Play
When McFly returned to our loudspeakers in the summer of 2020 with Young Dumb Thrills, the record marked their first in a decade. The...
Bezuidenhout, The English Concert, St Martin-in-the-Fields r...
An evening of Mozart favourites in a landmark church on a sunny evening: that might suggest a perfect recipe for gently soporific tourist...
Patriots, Noël Coward Theatre review - crash-bang brilliant...
With apocalyptic floods pouring through the Kakhovka dam, and millions of Ukrainians displaced or bereaved, it doesn’t feel decent to be laughing...
First Person: composer Kate Whitley on a new work for the Bo...
We at the Multi-Story Orchestra have been writing a new piece of music about social media. In one of the writing sessions I remember one of our...
Le Tigre, Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow review - letting out...
There was a youthful tinge to the jubilant chorus of “here we, here we, here we f****** go” that greeted Le Tigre arriving on stage. The band may...
Yours Unfaithfully, Jermyn Street Theatre review - resonant...
Miles Malleson, known as an inter-war character actor who popped up in numerous small roles on stage and screen, was also a...
Album: Christine and the Queens - PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOV...
Tony Kushner’s early 1990s play Angels in America is an...
Handel for the King, Le Concert Spirituel, Niquet, Wigmore H...
Union Jacks could be stowed away, and EU ones figuratively, furtively flourished: this was a concert of celebratory music for a Hanoverian king by...
The Shape of Things, Park Theatre review - the shape of what...
It’s been more than 20 years since the premiere of The Shape of Things, Neil LaBute’s prickly drama about couples and friends and the...
Album: Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure
There’s been a good deal of discussion on “the socials” about how much Janelle Monáe’s sexy image is a new thing or a big deal.
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