REVIEW – SLEEP PARTY PEOPLE, PINKUNOIZU, PHONE JOAN, SIRI NILSEN, PAPERFANGS, BURNING HEARTS, PRETTY LIGHTNING, JOOSE KESKITALO AND KOLMAS MAAILMANPALO, KARHUMAURI

And more: The Rumour Said Fire, Who Made Who, Spleen United, El Doom & the Born Electric, mattisogjonas, Necessary, David Myhr, Wolfbrigade, Faarao Pirttikangas.

Review here: The Arts Desk Just in From Scandinavia: Nordic Music Round-Up 4

Here are the previous ones: 3, 2, 1.

Some more on Fonal, and Helmi Levyt too.

REVIEW – ABBA: THE VISITORS DELUXE EDITION

The lack of coherence makes sense  now, in the light of what’s go on subsequently.

Review here: The Arts Desk  Abba The Visitors Deluxe Edition

This is in pristine quality on the DVD in the package, but it’s still interesting viewing.

TV/FILM REVIEWS - TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS, BRAQUO, SWEET HOME ALABAMA THE SOUTHERN ROCK SAGA

Tuesday, After Christmas: The Arts Desk Tuesday, After Christmas

Braquo, interview with writer  Abdel Raouf Dafri: The Arts Desk Braquo

Sweet Home Alabama the Southern Rock Saga: The Arts Desk Sweet Home Alabama the Southern Rock Saga

MOJO MAY 2012 REVIEWS - MOONFACE WITH SIINAI HEARTBREAKING BRAVERY, FRANKIE ROSE INTERSTELLAR, LOTUS PLAZA SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE

 

(mostly) Finland, Brooklyn and Georgia.

REVIEW - BARBARA CARLOTTI: L’AMOUR, L’ARGENT, LE VENT

Where she is in this is very hard to tell. It is great, but the volume of cooks makes it impossible to tell.

Review here: Rockfort Barbara Carlotti: L’Amour, L’Argent, Le Vent

This goes some way towards an answer.

REVIEW - PATRICK WATSON: ADVENTURES IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD

A stop-gap?

Review here: The Arts Desk Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard

REVIEW – POLIÇA: GIVE YOU THE GHOST

Very suprised by this.

Review here: The Arts Desk Poliça Give You the Ghost

REVIEW - THE O’JAYS: WE'LL NEVER FORGET YOU - THE IMPERIAL YEARS 1963-66

Some great, prevously semi-lost, stuff on this.

Review here: The Arts Desk The O’Jays We'll Never Forget You - The Imperial Years 1963-66

REVIEW - SOAP & SKIN, SCALA, LONDON

There’s got to be a way of sorting out the intrusive computer stuff and integrating it with the live show. Standing in front of a laptop just does not do it. During Fall Foliage she missed a beat while stabbing at the computer.

Review here: The Arts Desk Soap & Skin Scala

Here’s a taste of what the second encore would have been, had there been one.

REVIEW: EASTERN BLOC FUNK EXPERIENCE

Review here : The Arts Desk Eastern Bloc Funk Experience