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Concert Review: Cheer up with Cher on her Here We Go Again Tour
With the ticket price of live music events becoming ever more expensive and the options of places to see the more prominent names performing, requiring more travel, you have to redefine your attitude when it comes to going to a gig. Rather than make it the sole purpose of your trip away, if you combine […]
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Sex-Dwarf Supreme! Marc Almond and Immodesty Blaize, Hammersmith Odeon
Fraulein Sasha de Suinn reviews Marc Almond & Immodesty Blaize, Hammersmith Odeon. 5 Stars! What separates scene-stealing queens from dumb, bonehead heterosexuals, so cluelessly chav-tastic that Katie Price is their Marlene Dietrich? In one word, panache, darlings! Equipped since birth with the most super-sensitive instinct known to humanity for detecting the extraordinary, outré, kitsch and baroquely […]
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CONCERT REVIEW | Ute Lemper’s Rendezvous With Marlene
‘Falling in Love Again…’ an entranced Sasha de Suinn reviews Ute Lemper’s sold-out cabaret show Rendezvous with Marlene @the Arcola Theatre, Hackney.
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REVIEW: Audra McDonald at the Leicester Square Theatre
★★★★★ | Audra McDonald Megastar of Broadway, film and television Audra McDonald can barely pop out for a carton of milk in New York without winning another Tony Award. It’s not hard to see why she’s a record breaking award winner and it’s a privilege to see and hear her up close in the Leicester Square […]
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GIG REVIEW: John Cale – Ecletic Ecstasies, The Roundhouse
★★★★★ John Cale | Gay icon Andy Warhol was a furious, non-stop workaholic. Perpetually partying, even more fiercely than the similarly manic-for-inspiration Alexander McQueen, Warhol had one, pathological pet hate – laziness. Famously, he called Lou Reed – the amphetamine cranked, 24-7 sensation junkie – ‘a rat’, the most poisonous put-down poor tongue-tied Andy could […]
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Marianne Faithfull at Camden Roundhouse The Grand Dame of Exquisite
Marianne Faithfull @ Camden Roundhouse. 5 Stars! The Grand Dame of Exquisite Excess! ★★★★★
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Cassandra Wilson As Billie Holiday Will Leave You Breathless
Is the pop-music business truly gay-friendly? Does it support, or viciously distort, perceptions of clearly gay pop? Both, actually. For every Bowie, Boy George and Marc Almond, there are others encouraged to view public disclosure as career suicide. It’s not surprising. If undeniably high-profile, pop’s also a hugely juvenile art-form, subsisting on one novelty sugar-rush […]
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Anna Calvi at Meltdown: Hellfire Passion in Pantyhose
Rock guitarist Anna Calvi is living feminist wildfire. Her 2011, game-changer debut album instantly castrated sacred notions of male guitar god supremacy, and tonight, her beautiful heresy’s fiercer still. Is she straight? Bi? Undecided? Who cares? Isn’t mystery and mystique the most panting aphrodisiac ever? And in a web-scape awash with Miley Cyrus booty, frankly, […]
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REVIEW | Holly Penfield Sings Judy Garland
★★★★★ | Holly Penfield Sings Judy Garland Holly Penfield Sings Judy Garland Live At The Talk Of The Town 5 Stars! Legendary Lightning Strikes Again! Do tribute shows suck? Only if they’re X-factor auto-tune abortions, or clueless samplings of a legendary legacy. But this, my dears, is neither; Holly Penfield sings Judy Garland is grit, […]
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GIG REVIEW | Alison Moyet – The Minutes Tour
★★★★★ Alison Moyet – The Minutes Tour From her early days as one half of Yazoo to her multi-million selling solo career, the last 30 years has seen Alison Moyet remain one of the most talented singers around. Her sultry voice has seen her take the guise of an electronica sensation, a husky jazz singer, […]
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GIG REVIEW: Joan Armatrading
Ah Joan. Last night, I was lucky enough to see Joan Armatrading LIVE in Canterbury.