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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,
John Aizlewood's rating
Reader rating
Yusuf shows the fire still burns
After Baaba Maal’s intoxicating, inventive set, the Senegalese superstar was joined by the Island label’s biggest-selling act U2, for a spine-tingling version of their standard, One, which morphed jauntily into Bob Marley’s One Love. Maal exited and U2 launched into a splendidly ramshackle version of 2004’s Vertigo. It was hard to tell whether the crowd were more astonished or delighted.
Although Bono stayed to introduce Yusuf, there was little chance that the former (and still possibly current — even Bono hedged his bets) Cat Stevens would be overshadowed by the world’s biggest band.
Instead, the man now resembling a slimline Bill Oddie did what he was doing until he retired for 25 years in 1979 and sang his vaguely spiritual, slightly wet but always masterful songs in his strangely affecting voice. He was so taken with the adulation that he forgot himself and declared to the audience “you’re the best”, before pointing his finger skywards, chuckling, “no, he’s the best”.
If Wild World suffered from a clumsy rearrangement and there was no room for Matthew And Son, Ruins retained its shimmering beauty, the new Welcome Home showed the creative fire still burns and anyone who didn’t fall for Father To Son all over again has a harder heart than mine.
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