The key track gives the album its title. “Where the Fades Meet” opens with swelling strings, which are swiftly underpinned by ...

Parts of the Beethoven struck with full, electric force, but perhaps the most successful overall performance - apart from Selaocoe's encore - was of Bach's G minor Fantasia and Fugue arranged by ...

Social engineering gets a bad press. The whiff of creating a eugenics-inspired master race by other means clings to it, so ...

Having a go at Howard Devoto’s post-Buzzcocks band wasn’t new. In NME, Tony Parsons considered their February 1979 single “Rhythm of Cruelty” thus: “Howard the Schmuck writes pretty little melodies, ...

The title “Tone Phase 1 for 2 Guitars & 4 Oscillators” is a giveaway, clearly indicating what’s going to be heard once the LP ...

Dismemberment is a key motif in the writer-director Simon Stone’s The Oresteia. It reflects the treatment of two of the piece ...

A voice at the start of dancer Aakash Odedra’s performance speaks out of the darkness about the Sufi myth behind what we are ...

Pyschedelic music has always encouraged intergenerational influence. Thus West Midlander Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember, in his ...

Reviewing The Clash’s 27 October 1976 appearance at Birmingham’s Barbarella’s, UK music weekly Sounds detected a particular, ...

It is never a great sign when a local authority is forced to comment on a music festival. The opening night of the In The ...

Aaron Copland’s gleaming, monumental Fanfare for the Common Man was written to mark the USA’s entry into World War II. Those ...

A febrile energy powers Timothy Sheader’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which arrives in the West End with an edgy ...