Arcade Fire – Reflektor. Released late last year this double album is a gem – a throwback to in time to concept albums and a desire to emulate ‘rock-art’ rather than ‘sound-bite rock’. The production is multi-layered – a tangled weave of intense sounds and harmonies that clash and resonant and then capture your imagination […]

I had not seen the band with Boxford roots in perhaps 18 months and sadly disappointed with this gig in Hadleigh. Some of their older songs stood out as something refreshingly different like Midnight Writer & Dance With Me but this new set I found disengaging with too much banter and consequent delay between songs. No […]

This fabulous film (1991) based on a Roddy Doyle novel and directed to wide acclaim by Alan Parker returns for the first time as a musical to the West End and what a knock out production it is. The backdrop is Dublin and the story line is simply to return American soul to the Irish […]

Fawkes & Forté went to see the Purple remnants at the Roundhouse. Not disappointed as they served up some timeless classics Space Truckin, Lazy & Smoke on the Water. But, what I had really wanted to hear was Child in Time, sadly Ian Gillian was unable to oblige, no doubt the high notes would have […]

A Slow Burn Before Setting Alight The gig kicked off with crucial numbers from THE ALBUM – Rumours – selling globally 45 million copies! Leaving Queen and Meat Loaf in their wake. Classics started the evening – Second Hand News, followed by The Chain, but then the tempo dropped  – too much time between songs, bare […]

That Wasn’t Me… Q – So, where can you experience an out of body event – the Harwich Electric Palace – the first cinema to open its doors in the UK at the end of the art nouveau period. A –  Thomas Dolby and his attachment from boyhood to Orfordness Lighthouse, a fixation that has prompted a […]