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‘South Pacific’ at the Barbican
A slick production littered with talented actor-singers and fronted by sassy Samantha Womack and Paulo Szot
Tomorrow, In a Year
Labelling it as a ‘Darwin electro-opera’ didn’t do justice to the sheer number of genres that were so perfectly harmonised
Rodriguez Big Chill Warm Up at the Barbican
The Barbican Centre looks to me like a vision of a future that never came to be. Yet it stands. Sixto Rodriguez, our 70 year-old Detroit blues legend this evening, is a vision of a present that so nearly never came to pass. Yet he stands.
Je T’aime: Jane Birkin at the Barbican
When Jane Birkin lopes onstage at the Barbican to thunderous applause, it’s hard to believe she was once the curvaceous, doe-eyed bombshell who spent much of the swinging Sixties and Seventies at Serge Gainsbourg’s side, causing scandal aplenty whilst wearing hardly any clothes, with the sound of her orgasmic groans on Je T’aime being banned [...]
Richard Thompson Live at the Barbican
Playboy magazine could never have seen it coming. It was 1999 when Los Angeles’ most hallowed of cultural monthly publications sought the recommendations of renowned musicians in order to compile the definitive list of the ‘10 greatest songs of the millennium’. Of all the contributors and all the contributions to this supreme register of musical [...]
Searcys at the Barbican
Back in 2003 the Barbican was awarded with the unenviable title of London’s Ugliest Building, and as the concrete monstrosity looms out of the darkness on a teeth-chatteringly cold December evening, it’s not hard to see why (The Queen, however, does not share this view. Apparently she pronounced it ‘one of the wonders of the [...]
Drifting and Tilting at the Barbican
So there it was, the long awaited, latest offering from the illusive Scott Walker. Although not performing, he was present, and the whole concept was essentially his brainchild: an evening of music and dance, which saw a number of excellent singers perform some of his most recent, and to be honest, less accessible works.
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