AL Murray gets straight into it: careering on stage out of nowhere, wildly sloshing his pint over the front row and bellowing incomprehensible greetings to the huddled crowd.
Ritualistic folk music from rural Java, experimental heavy metal and avant garde contemporary dance came incongruously together in the UK premier of Attractor.
NOFIT STATE have earned their place as the UK’s leading circus companies, and bring characteristic high production values and flamboyant flourish to the opening night of Brighton Festival.
If a tree falls in a forest and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? So goes the popular philosophical thought experiment – and you could well flip it round when considering Wolfgang Voigt’s long-running art-sound project GAS.
YOU couldn’t accuse Bombay Bicycle Club of flying under the radar – from the tender age of 15, the precocious indie band have been headlining festival main-stages and scoring number one albums.
In keeping with the occultish look of Sunn O))) there are plenty of legends surrounding the band, one punter cheerfully telling a friend they've been known to make audience members collapse and be physically sick. This sounds suspiciously apocryphal, until they begin to churn up a mire of low-end turmoil, when it becomes increasingly plausible.
THE Jacksons paid a tear-jerking tribute to late brother Michael as the R&B dynasty closed the show at Love Supreme jazz festival on Saturday night.
It’s at times of tinder-dry global tension that art and culture can sometimes offer if not sober-headed insight than creative relief.
EMERGING from the shadow of a father hailed as one of Africa’s greatest and most influential musicians must be a daunting prospect, but it’s a step Vieux Farka Toure has decisively taken with the release of this year’s album, Samba.
