Soul Food
Andrew Myers checks out music for dining in the Hastings Jazz Organization @ NUR - MillerHutch @Lewes Depot In this era of stadium gigs, multi-millionaire stars and global streaming, it’s easy to forget that for many working musicians, life revolves…
Stairway To Heaven
Simone Witney reviews Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang Dir: Kevin Macdonald (2016) I’m told that the best way to appreciate a foreign country is to live like the inhabitants. So, on a recent trip to the US, I…
Bette Davis On The Edge
Written & performed by Christine St JohnKino-Teatr, St Leonards 23rd February 2019 Review by Martin Allen The programme sets the scene: As the curtain rises, it is in the morning on October 31st 1962 and we are in a VIP suite…
Price On Application
, The Green, St. Leonards February 21st – March 2nd Merlin Betts reviews an interactive theatrical performance by Man in the Moon Theatre, dramatised and adapted for running at this specific venue by Lisa Harmer-Pope and directed by Leigh Shine Price…
Jazz – Cubed!
Rod Youngs – Power of ThreeJazz Hastings Tuesday 12th Feb 2019Review by Andrew Myers Longstanding collaborators Rod Youngs, Denys Baptiste and Larry Bartley may be familiar to some Hastings listeners from their appearance at the Emergence Festival in September 2018, when…
There’s Some That Sit and Some That Stand
Merlin Betts reviews Oi! For England’s Green and Pleasant Land, Robin Hayter’s documentary on youth subcultures, political unrest and the play he once performed in L to R, Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Peter Løvstrøm, Paul MoriartyPICTURE: Nicola Joy On Thursday…
Beatles On The Roof
Review by Ray McChrystal It may have been twenty years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, but it was fifty years ago, on 30th January 1969, that the Beatles played their last gig on the roof…
More Stimulating than Stimmung
Simone Witney previews Price on Application, written by Lisa Harmer-Pope and directed by Leigh Shine Stimmung is a German word meaning the atmosphere of home. It was used by Mario Praz in his standard work History of Interior Decoration to…
RUN – Kevin Armstrong
Wishing Tree Records 2018 CD reviewed by Patrick Carabine Kevin Armstrong is Iggy Pop’s regular guitarist. He has collaborated with Bowie and Morrissey, worked with a host of others including Paul McCartney, Roy Orbison, Sinéad O’Connor, Prefab Sprout and Brian Eno.…
Mary Shelley (2018)
Director: Haifaa al-Mansour. Kino-teatr 17th JanuaryReviewed by Simone Witney This film is the result of a collaboration between the screen writer, Emma Jenson and Haifaa al Mansour, the first female film director to come from Saudi Arabia. Haifaa was the eighth…