Category: Music

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Review: Richard Beadle – Songs , St James Studio

  “With grace and poise, not hate and noise” Nestled in the basement of the newly-built St…

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Review: Janie Dee – Satin Doll, The Crazy Coqs

“Happiness comes in on tiptoe…” Fresh from the huge success that was Hello, Dolly! at the Curve…

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Review: The IDolls, Matcham Room at the Hippodrome Casino

“Drama and talent and sex – combined” Since they were cast together as the divas in the…

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Review: Lea Delaria – Live at the Hippodrome

“I’m Lea De-fucking-Laria and I’m gonna fucking let you know about it” We’re lucky enough to live…

Posted in Albums Alexander S Bermange Music

Album Review: Act One – Songs from the musicals of Alexander S Bermange

  “Every moment’s one to treasure” Composers who put together albums of their songs, especially if they…

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Album Review: Julian Ovenden – If You Stay

  “We will hear the song no-one’s ever heard” Fans of Julian Ovenden have had rather a…

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Album Review: Melanie C – Stages

  “Tell me it’s not true, say you didn’t mean it” With her 2010 performance as Blood…

Posted in Albums Music

EP Review: Madalena Alberto – Heart Condition

  “He does’t have to be a prince to give me butterflies” Though she has performed in…

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Review: The Golden Age of Broadway, Royal Festival Hall

“But now and then he’ll do something wonderful” Despite, or maybe because of, its richly diverse programming,…