‘sheer musicality’ Jasdeep Singh Degun, RNCM, Manchester
Summer is a quiet time in the OperaWatch offices here at Northern Soul Towers. Much twiddling of...
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Music Review: Original Artists Edition, RNCM, Manchester
Streaming has worked a peculiar effect on pop music, eliding distinctions of time and genre so...
Read MoreReview: Seth Lakeman, RNCM, Manchester
If, like me, you have been to a seated music gig in a posh venue, there is a fight between your heart and your head. Your head says, sit politely please. Yes, you may chair dance and clap along but heaven forbid you get up. When...
Read MoreReview: Set the Boy Free by Johnny Marr, Manchester Literature Festival
There’s a bit of armchair psychology which often gets trotted out on the subject of great musicians. They’re not good with words, it says. Instead they learn to communicate through their chosen instrument, and...
Read MoreReview: Metropolis, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Any revival of a classic film or play begs the question, ‘is it relevant to today?’. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis concerns an urban society riven by class in which battling members of a ruling elite deceive the...
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