Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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A night that puts a spring in your step
MIK SABIERS sees the former Eurythmics front man’s set bring the house down prompting a euphoric response from the audience
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Meltdown Festival
Eurythmics Songbook
Royal Festival Hall
★★★★
CURATING Meltdown as a celebration of song and songwriters, Chic legend Nile Rodgers tasked David A Stewart of Eurythmics with pulling together not just an all star band but a selection of great singers to perform the synthpop duo’s many hits.
Featuring Emilie Sande, Iris Gold, Beverley Knight, Folami and Kimberly Davis from Chic, and more on stage, Stewart ably met that call.
With a canon second to none — Eurythmics sold some 75 million records — track after track is greeted with not just a warm welcome but like an old, revitalised friend.
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