Category Archives: live review

Live review: Slip/VIRTUALLYREALITY @ The Soup Kitchen

Posted on 02*07*19 by

I’m trying to publish a bunch of half-finished reviews before summer begins in earnest, so here’s a long-delayed report from a really excellent evening of experimental music back in April at Manchester’s Soup Kitchen: the first VIRTUALLYREALITY event of 2019. … Continue reading →

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Live review: Kourtney Kardashian @ HOME

Posted on 01*05*19 by

Back in March, I saw Sleepwalk Collective’s Kourtney Kardashian at HOME, Manchester. This was part of an ‘accidental trilogy’ of pieces by the Spanish-British company, named after the Kardashian sisters, with each show employing a particular performance genre to approach themes … Continue reading →

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Live review: Distorted Constellations @ Caustic Coastal

Posted on 20*03*19 by

Between 17th and 26th January, performance artist/musician Nwando Ebizie presented a series of events in and around her Distorted Constellations exhibition, at Caustic Coastal in Salford. Co-commissioned by Eclipse and HOME (as part of the 2019 Push Festival), the event series ranged … Continue reading →

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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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