Category Archives: live review

Live review: London Contemporary Music Festival 2018 @ Ambika P3

Posted on 20*01*19 by

Back in December—and for the first time in several years—I was lucky enough to be in London at a time that coincided with the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF). The festival’s 2018 edition was subtitled ‘Sounds of the Thick Present’ … Continue reading →

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Live review: Everything that happened and would happen @ Mayfield

Posted on 17*12*18 by

Some thoughts on Heiner Goebbels’s Everything that happened and would happen, which I saw in Manchester back in October. The piece was co-commissioned by 14–18 NOW and Artangel, as well as New York’s Park Avenue Armory and the Ruhrtriennale, and … Continue reading →

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Live review: Placebo @ The Lowry

Posted on 21*10*18 by

Clod Ensemble are an interdisciplinary performance company whose recent work has been shaped by a particular interest in human biology and medicine. Their new production, Placebo, appears to follow this trend, both exploring the medical concept of the placebo effect and employing … Continue reading →

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Live review: BLACK @ Jabberwocky Market

Posted on 12*10*18 by

Last week I caught 20 Stories High‘s BLACK at Darlington’s Covered Market, presented as part of the Jabberwocky Market festival. A Liverpool-based company that collaborates frequently with ‘young people from excluded communities’, 20 Stories High have referred to some of their … Continue reading →

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Live review: An assembly @ Anthony Burgess Foundation

Posted on 02*10*18 by

Programme: Louis d’Heudieres — Laughter Studies 6b (2017) Rowland Hill — Tha-at’s right (2018) Charlie Usher — An assembly (2018) The experimental music group An assembly kicked off their Autumn tour last night at Manchester’s International Anthony Burgess Foundation, with a three-piece programme including two … Continue reading →

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Live Review: Lady Vendredi’s Urban Rites: Battle Cry! @ The Apiary

Posted on 22*09*15 by

This is a long overdue review for a piece I saw in June at Hackney’s Apiary Studios: MAS Productions’ Lady Vendredi’s Urban Rites: Battle Cry! The results of a week-long, intensive workshop in ‘Secular Ecstatic Art’, this was a chaotic and riotous … Continue reading →

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Live Review: Between Worlds @ The Barbican

Posted on 22*04*15 by

I need to have some serious problems with a work in order to bother writing a bad review these days. It has to really rile me on an ideological level. I’ve actually seen quite a few operas so far this year that have … Continue reading →

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