“Now they can’t put me in the same class as these other guys.”But Sid Shaw reckons that Lee is painting too gloomy a picture “There are a lot of good Elvises out there,” he insists. “Brian Lee does a good 1970s act, but Johnny Earle does a better 1950s one.” Meanwhile, Tom Storey, who rates [...]

There are so many it has become an infestation which is impossible to keep out. Now there are hundreds, even thousands, of theatrical events but the fact is that you cannot be sure everything will be good.”There has also been a terrible increase in the number of stand-up comics. Yesterday, Richard Demarco, one of the [...]

A Blue Note Latin hard-hopper 30 years ago, Henderson lay fallow in the fusion years of the Seventies to re-emerge as the most important sax-man of his generation with The State of the Tenor albums in 1985. This performance with his poll-winning Brazilian Double Rainbow Quartet was, therefore, the Brecon equivalent of an audience with [...]

“But you don’t need to spell everything out, you don’t need to give out traffic tickets for every last beat. He comes down to earth just once to lead an informal conducting class. No audience, no fuss, just a motley student band, the first movement of Mahler’s 10th, and three would-be maestri. The lessons of [...]

The 14 performers ape the dances of the East and the mesmeric chains of movement are bathed in Michael Chybowski’s lighting that makes the dancers seem like luminous figures dancing in darkness. World Power is accompanied by a Lou Harrison composition played by the South Bank Gamelan Players. The ability to select surprising but utterly [...]

I’m in awe of their minds and stricken by their difference, their beauty, their soft, fabulous foreign bodies – though as objects of contemplation, not engagement. Maria doesn’t want to hear my question about whether that’s sexist or not. Tell Pablo some men don’t make passes at girls with…” “You don’t wear glasses…” “With vaginas. [...]