Emiel’s Guide to Classical Music (Episode 8)
Episode 8 - From North to South
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
Prior to writing this review, I stumbled upon a recent YouTube recording of Wild Beasts performing a mellow and slightly mocking rendition of Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball.
Not such Happy Days...
Disclaimer: do not book tickets for this as a February blues pick-me-up. The poster’s colourful, the title’s promising, but the only comedy you’ll get it the bleakest of tragicomedy.
The Blind Astronomer
Is science emotional? Clara Clark Nevola interviews theatre maker Tom Espiner about the play Going Dark to find out
The Critic Laughs
Richard Hamilton. Father of pop art, experimenter of consumer design, right? If that is all you associate with this icon of twentieth century British art, this massive retrospective at the Tate will change your mind.
Turandot: finished but flawed
Puccini’s Turandot was “the end of the great tradition” of Italian opera. Ever popular, it is the grandest of them all, and yet it is deeply problematic. Set in a mythical China, at its simplest the tale concerns a Prince, Calaf, who wins the heart of the Princess of China, Turandot.
Emiel’s Guide to Classical Music: Episode 7 - Josquin
Episode VII - Josquin
Review: Bohren & der Club of Gore
Riaz Agahi looks at the German band’s new effort - Piano Nights
ArtsFest is Coming, Look Busy!
Yes the biggest event of the union calendar has arrived. And I don’t mean the Big Elections. ArtsFest sees our scientists’ paradise turned over to our Artistic under culture for a week of something different.
Brum Photorealism
You’d be forgiven for thinking that London is the place to be for everything arts related...
Under The Vaults
Fred Fyles goes underground as part of the Waterloo Vaults Festival
V&A’s Boiler Room
The Friday Lates are, much as the name suggests, a series of exhibitions that take place on a Friday night, specifically the last Friday of each month.