Posted in Uncategorized on 24/02/2023| Leave a Comment »
Review added of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE * (*SORT OF). (FOLLOW LINK) We saw it at Chichester but it’s touring the country until June. The original production had five star reviews. I can’t think the touring one is any the less. Five female actors are the servants in the story, and dress up at speed to play the characters in the novel. We loved it. It’s bursting with energy. Do check your memory of the characters in Jane Austen’s original first though.
Posted in Uncategorized on 19/02/2023| Leave a Comment »
Salisbury Playhouse revives Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 play HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES (LINKED). This is a truly first rate production of one of Ayckbourn’s better plays, well worth the trip to Salisbury. If you’re nostalgic for, or just interested in the 1970s, go and see it.
Posted in Uncategorized on 16/02/2023| Leave a Comment »
Some thoughts on the 9 hours we spent in A & E in Poole yesterday (actually 12 hours at the hospital in total). FOLLOW THIS LINK. We’re all fine and home, grateful to wonderful medical staff, but some reflections on the working of the system and some thoughts on what the NHS needs to do, some of which are very simple and non-medical.
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/02/2023| Leave a Comment »
Poole was the fourth concert, twenty-eight more to go on Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” 50th Anniversary Tour (LINK TO MY REVIEW) . The hall was packed the sound was superb. There is a great selection of other Oldfield material in the first half, Tubular Bells complete in the second. It’s going all over Great Britain., It had a rapturous reception and rightly so.
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/02/2023| Leave a Comment »
On the AROUND and AROUND site, two new articles in the labels section. This is the start of a long series of articles on the Decca Group. First up is THE DECCA GROUP, followed by DECCA (linked) which is on the UK label. Hopefully both are also visual feasts on the UK’s second largest music group.
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/02/2023| Leave a Comment »
It’s got some excellent reviews. We didn’t like it, but judge for yourself. GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE review is here.
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