Sunday 29 April 2012

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.


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


Monday 23 April 2012

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

Thursday 12 April 2012

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.