Review of Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, Aldwych Theatre London, Saturday 5th July added.
Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn in photo.
Bring Up The Bodies review
06/07/2014 by Peter Viney
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The Crucible review
05/07/2014 by Peter Viney
Review of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Old Vic Theatre, London, 4th July 2014 is now up under “STAGE”.
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Suzanne Vega review
03/07/2014 by Peter Viney
Review of Suzanne Vega, 3rd July 2014 at Poole Lighthouse. Follow the link. Good support from Chris Simmons.
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The American Queen Ensemble review
24/06/2014 by Peter Viney
I decided to review the American Queen resident entertainers, because this sort of stuff doesn’t get reviewed and it deserves to. See link to American Queen Ensemble.
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Gospel, West Helena
23/06/2014 by Peter Viney
Review of the Gospel concert at the Greater First Baptist Church, West Helena, Arkansas. This was previously on The Band Guestbook, but is expanded and illustrated.
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The Grand Ole Opry review
22/06/2014 by Peter Viney
Review of The Grand Ole Oprey, Friday 20th June 2014, Nashville. added.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Anderson, Bryan White, Collin Raye, Grand Ole Oprey, Jean Shephard, Jeanie Sealey, Jesse McReynolds, Jim Ed Brown, Mo Pitney, Riders In The Sky, The Isaacs, The SteelDrivers, The Willis Clan | Leave a Comment »
Joyce Cobb review
15/06/2014 by Peter Viney
Third riverboat review added: Joyce Cobb, the “Queen of Beale Street” See link.
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The Platters review
15/06/2014 by Peter Viney
Review of The Platters, or possibly “The Platters” added at this link.
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Review of Preston Shannon
14/06/2014 by Peter Viney
Review of Preston Shannon, “live on the river” added. Link here.
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Culture Shock
05/06/2014 by Peter Viney
Short piece on Bourbon Street New Orleans added here:
or in the RANTS section.
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- Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)
- Fortunes of War
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- Furry Vengeance
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- Get Back (Part 1)
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- Get Back (Part 3)
- Giant
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- Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
- Munich – The Edge of War
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- Tangled!
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- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- The Ballad of Wallis Island
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- The Famous Five: Peril on The Night Train
- The Famous Five: The Curse of Kirrin Island
- The Father
- The Five-Year Engagement
- The French Dispatch
- The Frightened City
- The Girl On The Train
- The Girl Who Played With Fire
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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- The Great Gatsby
- The Greatest Showman
- The Help
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- The History Man
- The Imitation Game
- The Irishman
- The Iron Lady
- The Joy of Six
- The Jungle Book (2016)
- The King’s Man
- The Life of Pi
- The Look of Love
- The Lost Daughter
- The Man In The Hat
- The Midnight Sky
- The Outfit
- The Phantom of The Open
- The Power of The Dog
- The Prom
- The Railway Man
- The Salisbury Poisonings (TV series)
- The Secret Garden
- The Theory of Everything
- The Trial of The Chicago Seven
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
- tick, tick … BOOM!
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- To Olivia
- Triangle of Sadness
- Twisters
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- West Side Story (2021)
- What Maisie Knew
- Widows
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- Wild Target
- Wolf Hall TV Series
- World on Fire
- Yesterday
- Film – the 60s retrospectives
- A Hard Day’s Night
- A Taste of Honey (1961)
- Accident
- Alfie (1966)
- Barbarella (1968)
- Be My Guest
- Beat Girl
- Blow-up
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Bullitt (1968)
- Cat Ballou
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- Custer of The West
- Darling
- Deadfall (1968)
- Doctor Zhivago
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)
- Georgy Girl
- Girl On A Motorcycle
- Gonks Go Beat
- Harper (aka The Moving Target)
- Help!
- Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
- How I Won The War
- I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name
- If ….
- Just For You
- Little Fauss & Big Halsy
- Live It Up!
- Medium Cool
- Modesty Blaise (1966)
- Morgan – A Suitable Case For Treatment
- Nevada Smith
- O’ Lucky Man!
- Performance
- Petulia
- Play It Cool
- Poor Cow
- Privilege
- Six-Five Special
- Some People
- Sparrows Can’t Sing
- Summer Holiday
- Take A Girl Like You
- Ten Little Indians
- The Bofors Gun
- The Carpetbaggers
- The Chalk Garden (1964)
- The Chase (1966)
- The Devil Rides Out
- The Family Way
- The Fast Lady
- The Ipcress File
- The Knack … and how to get it
- The Magic Christian
- The Magus
- The Party (1968)
- The Party’s Over
- The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
- The Small World of Sammy Lee
- The Swimmer (1968)
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
- The Trap
- The White Bus
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce
- The Young Ones
- Theorem (Teorema)
- Tom Jones
- What A Crazy World
- Wonderful Life
- Work Is A Four Letter Word
- It was fifty years ago in May …
- John Wetton Tribute
- Much Ado About Nothing- Jamie Lloyd, 2025
- music
- 45 rpm records …
- Anglicana … and Americana
- Anti songs
- Broadside: Bellowhead
- Concerts
- 70th Party …
- ABBA Tribute / BSO
- Al Stewart
- Albert Lee
- Allen Toussaint
- American Queen Ensemble
- Andy Williams
- Animals & Friends / Steve Cropper
- Art Garfunkel
- Average White Band
- Bap Kennedy
- Bellowhead 2.2013
- Bellowhead 2014
- Bellowhead 2016
- Bellowhead 7.2013
- Bellowhead 7.2015
- Ben Portsmouth: This is Elvis
- Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2011
- Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2013
- Bob Dylan – 2022
- Bob Dylan – 2024
- Bob Dylan 2002
- Bob Dylan 2006
- Bob Dylan 2017
- Bonnie Raitt, Hyde Park 2018
- Brian Wilson
- BSO: Coming to America
- BSO: Seeta’s Rite
- BSO: Smooth Valentine Classics
- BSO: Triumphal Elgar
- Caitlin Rose
- Carole King – Hyde Park
- Chris Rea
- Chuck Prophet & Stephanie Finch
- Cliff Richard 2018
- Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Dave Kelly, Maggie Bell, BBQ
- Dexys
- Don Henley – Hyde Park
- Dr John
- Eleanor McEvoy
- Eliza Carthy
- Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden’s Wassail
- Emma Swift
- Emmylou Harris
- Fay Hield 2013
- Fay Hield 2014
- Fay Hield 2016
- Fleetwood Mac 2003
- FLIT
- Garth Hudson – an encounter
- Garth Hudson 1999
- Garth Hudson 2007
- Glen Campbell
- Glenn Tilbrook
- Gospel in West Helena
- Grupo Lokito
- Hal Wilner Leonard Cohen Project
- Hall & Oates
- Ian Felice 2018
- James Taylor 2014
- James Taylor, Hyde Park 2018
- Jimmy Cliff
- Joan Baez
- John Cale Paris 1919
- John Cale, Brighton 2011
- John Lydon
- John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life
- Johnny Flynn, Hyde Park 2018
- Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
- Jonathan Wilson
- Joni Mitchell’s Hejira and Mingus
- Joyce Cobb
- Judy Collins – 2020
- Judy Collins 2010
- Judy Collins 2013
- k.d. lang
- Kiefer Sutherland
- King Crimson – 2018
- KT Tunstall
- Legends: Joanna Lumley, Twiggy, Lulu
- Leonard Cohen Aug 2013
- Leonard Cohen July 2009
- Leonard Cohen Nov. 2008
- Leonard Cohen O2 2008
- Lisa O’Neill
- Loudon Wainwright III
- Louise Goffin – Hyde Park
- Lulu
- Margo Price
- Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
- Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
- Michael Kiwanuka – Hyde Park
- Michelle Shocked 2001
- Natalie Merchant 2016
- Natalie Merchant 2023
- NKOTB
- Norah Jones 2023
- P.P. Arnold 2019
- P.P.Arnold 2025
- Paul Simon & Sting 2015
- Paul Simon – Hyde Park 2018
- Paul Simon 2016
- Paul Simon Nov. 2006
- Paul Simon Oct. 2000
- Preston Shannon
- Raghu Dixit
- Raghu Dixit
- Ralph McTell 2016
- Richard Thompson 2017
- Rita Coolidge
- Rodriguez
- Roger Chapman
- Roger McGuinn
- Rufus Wainwright
- Sam Lee & Friends
- Sandy Denny Tribute
- Saving Grace
- Seth Lakeman 2014
- Shawn Colvin, Hyde Park Review
- Simi Stone
- Simon & Garfunkel 2004
- Simone Felice – Oct 2015
- Simone Felice 2011
- Simone Felice April 2012
- Simone Felice April 2014
- Simone Felice July 2013
- Simone Felice November 2014
- Simone Felice Sept 2012
- Simone Felice- Oct 2016
- Sly & The Family Stone
- Spiers & Boden 2026
- Spiers & Boden 5.13
- Spiers & Boden, 6.13
- Spiers and Boden 2014
- Spirit Family Reunion
- Steeleye Span
- Suzanne Vega
- Symphonic Pink Floyd
- Taj Mahal
- The Australian Pink Floyd
- The Band
- The Bleedin Noses
- The Bootleg Beatles 2018
- The Bootleg Beatles 2022
- The Cactus Blossoms
- The Civil Wars
- The Decemberists
- The Delines
- The Demon Barbers
- The Foundations
- The Full English
- The Grand Ole Opry
- The Imagined Village
- The Manfreds – 2016
- The Manfreds 2011
- The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold 2003
- The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money, Nov 2016
- The Mastersons, Hymn For Her
- The Mavericks
- The palmer james group
- The Platters
- The Searchers
- The Transports
- The Two of Us: Lennon & McCartney
- The Unthanks 03.11
- The Unthanks 04.2012
- The Unthanks 10.2012
- The Unthanks 12.11
- The Unthanks 2.2015
- The Unthanks 2019
- The Unthanks 2022
- The Unthanks 2024
- The Unthanks 5.2017
- The Waterboys
- The Zombies
- The Zombies – 2024
- Thea Gilmore
- Tom Jones
- Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch tour
- Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary
- Van Morrison
- Ward Thomas, 2025
- Ward Thomas, Hyde Park
- Zawinul Syndicate
- Zoot Money
- Gigs, venues and prices
- HMV. His Master’s Voice silenced?
- Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
- Music From Big Pink – 50th anniversary
- Names, Scribble & Numbers
- Nancy Sinatra
- Note of Hope (Woody Guthrie)
- Phil Everly RIP
- Rock pictures
- RoseAnn Fino
- Shadows In The Night
- Thank You For The Muzac
- The Band reviews & pictures
- The Beautiful Old
- The Potato Album
- The Village Green Preservation Society
- The Weight – covers
- Twelve Songs For Christmas 2013
- rants
- 100 Days Plus and Counting …
- Driving Me Mad …
- A Fishy Story
- A Legal Matter
- A life in cars …
- A life written in wine
- A Post-Brexit Vision
- Agatha Christie: Deduction in a dell’arte mask
- Allergies … and lawyers
- Baby Boomer v Wokeperson
- Barcodes
- Beaujolais Nouveau …
- Benign ghosts of Christmas Past
- Best of 2011
- Best of 2012
- Best of 2013
- Best of 2014
- Best of 2015 – music
- Best of 2015 – Theatre
- Best of 2016 – Music
- Best of 2016 – Theatre
- Best of 2017 – Music
- Best of 2017 – Screen
- Best of 2017- Theatre
- Best of 2018 – Music
- Best of 2018 – theatre
- Best of 2019 – Concerts
- Best of 2019 – Theatre
- Best of 2019- Music
- Best of 2020
- Best of 2020- Music
- Best of 2022 – Music
- Best of 2022- Theatre
- Best of 2023 – Theatre
- Best of 2024 – theatre
- Best of 2025 – Theatre
- Car park tickets
- Cars are cars
- Chorizo is Vile
- Christmas Markets
- Christmases long past …
- Civil Wars & Statues
- Climate Change: my rant
- Communication skills: Leaders TV debate 2015
- Crisis at the Cash Register
- Crisps: A history
- Culture Shock Bourbon Street
- Cycling in London (and elsewhere)
- Driver Awareness Courses
- Encounter: Saul Bellow
- Eurovision 2022
- Fawlty Towers and Tall Poppies
- Flags and anthems
- Football nicknames
- For Fox Sake!
- Free Broadband in Every Packet!
- Guilt and innocence
- Hail, hail, the first of May
- Howards End is a blur
- In the April Garden …
- In The Days of Covid-21
- In the May Garden
- Jangle Bells: shopping for Christmas
- Jumble Sales
- Land Of My Mother’s
- London-centric theatre
- Mail v Guardian
- Major Brylcreem or My adventures in the CCF
- Matinees
- Mutiny on the Bowling Alley
- Neither of Either
- Not an amazing grace
- On The Road: Information overkill
- Parent and child spaces
- Pee’d off
- Phones, concerts and copyright
- Planning
- Poppies
- Princely Names
- Quaint hotels
- Remember, remember …
- Secondhand Christmas
- Shrink wrapping albums
- Sloppy fiction?
- Someone will call you back …
- Sound … and Fury… at The Globe
- SS-GB – Mumbling soundtracks
- Suits
- Supermarket check-outs
- Surveys
- Tales of A & E
- Testing in schools
- The “Poldark” Effect
- The 1950s Children’s Park
- The 2019 watershed?
- The 70s were crap
- The Building Behind Me …
- The Cheerful e-bay seller
- The Curse of The Crawleys: Downton Abbey Series 10
- The decline and fall of the publishing lunch
- The Decline of Bournemouth
- The End of Deference …
- The Famous Five – by Paul F. Newman
- The four day week?
- The Great War
- The Hacking Cough
- The Long & The Short Of It
- The March of The Halloumi Fries
- The pink and the blue
- The Shakespeare Cod-Piece
- The Stitch Up
- Triple cooked what?
- Tulips April 2023
- View From The Queue
- Walk Don’t Run
- What happened to car CD players?
- What’s happened to air travel?
- stage
- ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Cheek by Jowl
- ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Wanamaker
- 1984 – stage version
- 2:22 – A Ghost Story
- 8 Hotels
- A Chorus of Disapproval
- A Damsel in Distress
- A Little Hotel On The Side
- A Mad World My Masters
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – BBC TV 2016
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Bridge 2019
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Everyman 2024
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Filter 2011
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2013
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2016
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2023
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Grandage 2013
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Propellor 2013
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2011
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2016
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2024
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Wanamaker 2025
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill 2018
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill Tour 2019
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Young Vic
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bath 2016
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe 2019
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Headlong
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Nights Dream – Handspring 2013
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited
- A Number
- A Streetcar Named Desire NT Live
- A Taste of Honey
- A Very Very Very Dark Matter
- A View From The Bridge – 2014
- A View From The Bridge – 2023
- A View From The Bridge – 2024
- A Woman of No Importance
- Abigail’s Party 2013
- Absolute Hell
- After the Dance – BBC, 1992
- Ah, Wilderness!
- Albion
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical
- All My Sons
- All New People
- All’s Well That Ends Well – RSC 2013
- All’s Well That Ends Well- 2018
- All’s Well That Ends Well- RSC 2022
- Amadeus – 2014
- Amadeus – NT 2017
- American Buffalo
- An Enemy of The People
- An Ideal Husband 2018
- An Ideal Husband- 2014
- Anna Karenina
- Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2013
- Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2017
- Antony and Cleopatra – Globe
- Antony and Cleopatra 2012
- Arcadia
- Arden of Faversham
- Around The World in 80 Days
- As You Like It – Bath 2025
- As You Like It – Globe 2015
- As You Like It – Globe 2018
- As You Like It – Globe 2023
- As You Like It – National 2015
- As You Like It – RSC 2019
- As You Like It – RSC 2023
- As You Like It – RSC 2024
- As You Like It RSC 2013
- Assassins
- Awful Auntie
- Bakkhai
- Balletboyz: The Talent
- Barber Shop Chronicles
- Bartholomew Fair
- Beauty & The Beast (Ballet Theatre UK)
- Before The Party
- Ben and Imo
- Birdsong (2024)
- Birthday
- Bitter Wheat
- Black Comedy
- Blithe Spirit – 2025
- Blithe Spirit – Bath 2010
- Blithe Spirit – Bath 2019
- Blood Wedding
- Blue Beard
- Blues For An Alabama Sky
- Boudica
- Bring Up The Bodies
- Broken
- California Connections:
- Candida
- Cardenio
- Carmen Disruption
- Caroline or Change
- Choir
- Come Into The Garden, Maud
- Comedy of Errors – Globe
- Comedy of Errors – Globe 2023
- Comedy of Errors – RSC, 2021
- Comedy of Errors NT 2012
- Comedy of Errors RSC ’12
- Communicating Doors
- Comus
- Copenhagen
- Coram Boy
- Coriolanus – NT Live
- Coriolanus – RSC
- Crazy For You
- Curiosity Shop
- Cymbeline – RSC 2016
- Cymbeline – RSC 2023
- Cymbeline – Wanamaker
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Dancing at Lughnasa – 2023
- Dancing At Lughnasa- 2015
- Dear Octopus
- Death Of A Salesman
- Deathtrap
- Dedication
- Deep Azure
- Design For Living
- Dido, Queen of Carthage
- Dinner With Saddam
- Doctor Faustus
- Don Carlos
- Don Juan in Soho
- Don Quixote
- Doubt – a parable
- Dr Semmelweis
- Dream
- Dunsinane
- Echo’s End
- Educating Rita
- Edward II – RSC 2025
- Edward II – Wanamaker, 2019
- Edward Scissorhands
- Electro Kif
- Endgame – Bath 2025
- Endgame / Rough for Theatre II
- English
- Eyam
- Fallen Angels
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Far
- Farewell Mister Haffman
- Farinelli and The King
- Fat Ham
- Fences
- First Light
- Flare Path
- Follies
- For Services Rendered
- Forests
- Fortune’s Fool
- Forty Years On
- Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use The F-Word.
- Fran Lebowitz
- Frankenstein – NT Encore
- French Without Tears
- French Without Tears (BBC)
- Funny Girl
- Future Conditional
- George’s Marvellous Medicine
- Girl From The North Country
- God of Carnage
- Grace Pervades
- Guys and Dolls
- Gypsy
- Hairspray, The Musical
- Half A Sixpence
- Hamilton
- Hamlet – Chichester 2025
- Hamlet – Cumberbatch
- Hamlet – Globe 2014
- Hamlet – Maxine Peake
- Hamlet – NT 2010
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