Archives for Reviews - Page 8
Gwyneth Herbert, Jim Stoten and Phil Kay
At the Albion. Reviewed by Fiona McGarry The talented jazz singer, musician and composer Gwyneth Herbert has been, in her own words, in a ‘cocoon’ over the last few months.…
PREVIEW: The Last Thursday Film Club
At The Printworks Hastings’ premier venue is proud to host London’s longest running short film screening club, which is to launch a monthly short film night. The Exploding Cinema emerged…
Drawing Life
The row of artists intently study the models before them – a pair of dancers frozen in a Tango move – then begin to sketch. These are no ordinary artists,…
The Geminus
(Dir: Ross Dinwiddy) Rialto Theatre, Brighton 21st-25th May Reviewed by Susan McFie As part of the Brighton Fringe, Blue Devil Productions returns to a venue they know well with their exciting new…
The Japanese Connection
By Naoko Abe (Chatto & Windus 2019, £ Amazon) Reviewed by Kent Barker I’m not overly fond of flowering cherry trees. I mean, why cultivate something purely for its garish blossom…
PREVIEW: World-Class Festival Of Theatre Arrives
Stables Theatre 1st-7th July Hastings Theatre Festival which launches Monday 1 July, brings the talents of national and international performance to The Stables Theatre for the first time ever, cementing…
Home
TV series-Channel 4 Katy, her son John and her boyfriend Peter have just returned from a disappointing trip abroad. As they arrive back in Dorking, their mutual recriminations are cut…
Shadowlands
William Nicholson (Director: Jenny Lloyd-Lyons) The Stables, Hastings Clive Staples Lewis, perhaps best known as C S Lewis the author of the successful Narnia series of children’s books, was also…
White Liars and Black Comedy
By Peter Shaffer. Directed by Leigh Shine. The Stables 5th-13th April. Review By Simone Witney White LiarsThere was nothing amateurish about the production of White Liars by Peter Shaffer at…
A Wave Of Dreams
Arts Lab launch Reviewed by Judy Parkinson Imagine a laboratory and you might conjure up white-coated boffins evaporating something chemical over Bunsen burners or squinting into microscopes peering at millions…
Jane The Virgin
Netflix (5 seasons)Reviewed by Alan Bolwell The television serial format, telenovela, is the Latino equivalent of soap-opera; with more passion, more drama, doppelgangers, long-lost twin siblings, lovers, rivals, mortal enemies,…
Dub Generals Sweet Up The Dance
By Anna ArnoneNote (01/07/19): an incorrect version of this article was previously published in print and online. HIP apologises for the unauthorised and unattributed changes to Anna's original. Sound System…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
All Systems Go!
Preview: St Leonards International Film Festival 2019 Dedicated to celebrating and promoting celluloid-based filmmaking and encouraging the contemporary production of films using such technologies, St. Leonards International Film Festival (SLIFF)…
5174 Miles for a Bowl of Soup
Angelica Campion’s mystical broth quest Twenty years ago, I had a bowl of tomato and coriander soup in a hotel restaurant in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, South India. It’s my number one…
We Wish You a Smeary Christmas
By Angelica Campion There was a report out this week about self-service touchscreens in McDonald’s. They tested eight different outlets and apparently all were contaminated with faecal coliform bacteria. Wouldn’t…
NECESSARY ANIMALS
Album reviewed by Gareth Stevens I have to confess that Alt Psych is one of the few musical genres I have little experience or knowledge of. I took this assignment…
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
White Rock Theatre Hastings Reviewed by Russell Cruse Having announced that this was their Christmas show, and with fairy lights strung around a couple of mic stands, The Ukulele Orchestra…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kino Keynotes
Bavard Bar review This month’s Bavard Bar at the Kino Teatr was a winner, diving headfirst into neuroscience, politics and paranormal theories without ever letting the pace drop. Rod Webb’s…
International Composers Festival
(Artistic dir: Polo Piatti) Preview By Julian Norridge In six concerts over three music-filled days, from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd September, the International Composers Festival 2018 will feature live performances…