Once In A Lifetime
David Byrne at the O2 Reviewed by Angelica Campion Last week, after waiting for over 30 years, I went to see David Byrne perform at the O2 in Greenwich. Originally named the Millennium Dome and built to celebrate the third,…
Trampolene
PREVIEW: The Albion Monday 26th November Jack Jones Vocals/guitar Wayne Thomas bass/vocals Rob Steele Drums Jack Jones may be recognisable to fans of The Libertines as the Welsh poet who opened up their stadium shows with his dark, amusing poems, Ketamine…
Letters I Haven’t Written
Gwyneth Herbert at The Opus Theatre Hastings Director Susannah Tresilian Designer Tom Rogers Bass Sam Burgess Guitar Rob Luft Piano Tom Gibbs Drums and percussion Corrie Dick Video artist Will Duke Reviewed by Sarah Lloyd Gwyneth Herbert’s flawless performance…
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Concorde 2 – Brighton, 10th October 2018 Reviewed by Gavin Juniper Arriving in a damp, warm, late-afternoon Brighton in early autumn, I am thinking of climate change and how so much has changed along the south coast since I first…
A Dangerous Day Out
Angelica Campion Where do you take family visiting from Cape Town, South Africa, while simultaneously providing an action-packed day for your 14-year old’s birthday? Not to the Hastings Blue Reef Aquarium (which pales against the one in Cape Town, sorry).…
May Poll Dancing
The PM’s speech at Conservative Conference, Birmingham Reviewed by Colin Gibson Loathe as I am to admit it, sometimes only a worn-out cliché will do the trick. Yes, the first few minutes of Mrs. May’s appearance, (delayed half an hour…
Fish Fish Fish! Funking Fish!
Angelica Campion gets Pescatarian We have discovered the best restaurant in Hastings. It’s next door to the worst restaurant in Hastings (in my opinion)*. So, it’s important not to go in the wrong door by mistake. More of this later.…
The Composer and the Crane
Penny Loosemore at the International Composers Festival It’s not often a Japanese composer and a contemporary dance troupe wash up on English shores, but this weekend they did. As part of the International Composers Festival – three days celebrating the…
Does Rye Have The X Factor?
By Angelica Campion In the 1970s Rye, along with many other small towns, was not a creative place for teenagers to grow up in. There was no Kino cinema, virtually no live (modern) music, and no drama group that anyone…
Magic Bus/Los Twangueros
By Ade Peachment Previously Magic Bus played Hastings at the tartan clad Albion, where their Canterbury-esque whimsy, Gong inspired space-rock, Grateful Dead freak-out jams and jazz-tinged cosmic vibes went down a storm. Their triumphant return saw these sons of Totnes…