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An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
Bruce Dessau's rating
Reader rating
High-brow flair: Von Frisch host Robin Ince
Do comedy and entomology mix? Saturday night’s show, part of the South Bank’s weekend celebrating all things insect-related, suggested that they are decidedly itchy bedfellows. If ever there was an evening for which the phrase “curate’s egg” was appropriate it was The Von Frisch Cabinet of Peculiarities.
Though “curate’s larva” would be more apt. Robin Ince hosted with his usual high-brow flair but the mix of performers never gelled. Norman Lovett rambled on about pulling legs off a daddy long legs and replacing them with wheels, Toby Hadoke delivered a geeky lecture on bugs in Dr Who, Harry Hill provided a filmette about bees set to the music of Jane Birkin. But Charles Darwin’s great-great granddaughter Ruth Padel read some barely relevant poetry and Jo Neary’s balletic clowning had little thematic connection.
Things picked up when musician Martin White and orchestra offered excerpts from his flea-based musical, climaxing with the declaration of “one nation on a dog” before Waen Shepherd closed things with his rock-opera Dawn of the Maggots.
Von Frisch was apparently the zoologist who discovered that bees dance. It would have taken a whole hive doing Flamenco to get this buzzing.
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