18/04/2022 by Peter Viney
After two years off stage, at last The Unthanks are back LINK TO MY REVIEW OF POOLE. The eighth time I’ve seen them, and probably the best too. This is a long tour, stretching till August. It will probably come near enough to most people. I will be amazed if this is not the best concert with the best sound I’ll see this year.
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16/04/2022 by Peter Viney
Review of The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse at Chichester Festival Theatre. It’s based on her best-selling Gothic novel, and adapted for the stage by the author. I found several faults, unusually for Chichester, but there are enough staging ideas for it to worth seeing.
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13/04/2022 by Peter Viney
Directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. DEATH ON THE NILE (link to review) is streaming on Disney Plus and on DVD / Blu Ray from next week. The cast includes Tom Bateman, Sex Education’s Emma Mackay, Wonder Woman Gal Gadot, Arnie Hammer, French and Saunders. It’s the second big budget Poirot film from Branagh, with more on the pipeline. It’s enjoyable and entertaining … and you don’t find out who done it in the review.
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11/04/2022 by Peter Viney
Cartoonists is a new sub-page under the Art of LP at AROUND AND AROUND. It’s focussed around the Private Eye / Punch cartoonists, working for BBC Records on the Goon Show series initially. Some great sleeve illustration by Honeysett (below), Bill Tidy,. Ed McLachlan, David Langdon, Hunt Emerson, David Machell.
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05/04/2022 by Peter Viney
Wednesday Morning 3 a.m. – Simon and Garfunkel. 1964. The Reviled series at AROUND AND AROUND. Their first album wasn’t so much reviled as ignored. It wasn’t even released as an LP in the UK until four years later, though there had been an EP with just the four best tracks. The critics then and later were fond of calling their harmonies ‘syrupy’ and ‘sugary.’ I think the critics got it wrong. Much better than the critics said.
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03/04/2022 by Peter Viney
The act you’ve known for all these years, by which I mean The Bootleg Beatles, now in their 41st year … the review added of THE BOOTLEG BEATLES at Bournemouth (linked). With comments on The Beatles in general. They’re more than a tribute band.They are a band you need to see.
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02/04/2022 by Peter Viney
Review added of HOUSE OF GUCCI (linked). Now on DVD and streaming. It’s a long film about the machinations in the Italian fashion house which ended in murder. Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani (a real person) and it is a stunning and compelling performance. Add Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Jared Leto. Much more entrancing than I expected it to be.
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27/03/2022 by Peter Viney
Review of SAME TIME NEXT YEAR by Bernard Slade, in the London Classic Theatre touring production. The tour approaches its end … just Eastbourne and Newcastle-Under-Lyme to go, but the play is intrinsically interesting enough to be worth reading about. I also think it flies the flag high for the quality of touring theatre in the provinces (in spite of the company’s London name). Kieran Buckeridge and Sarah Kempton play the couple who after a passionate secret one-night stand, decide to meet in the same hotel on the same day every year.
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23/03/2022 by Peter Viney
The latest streamed film review is THE KING’S MAN, (linked) the prequel to the comedy spy films. Though it’s somewhat daft, you do get Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Gemma Arbuthnot, Tom Hollander and several famous actors in cameos. The review is laden with plot spoilers, hopefully amusing, and maybe we’ve watched it so you won’t have to. Though it is free. It’s about World War One, but not one for serious historians.
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22/03/2022 by Peter Viney
A major addition to AROUND AND AROUND. Topic Records are Britain’s oldest independent label, now in its 83rd year. It’s also higher profile with folk revival records than it’s ever been. It’s a long and fascinating tale through political songs, archival folk of the British Isles, then the major British folk singers. Plus Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Now the premier folk label of all. A great label with also some iconic artwork.
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