I’m just back from the Union Theatre’s new production of tick tick… BOOM! and I have to say, I am buzzing somewhat. The basic premise of the show is that Jon is an aspiring musical theatre composer who is getting nowhere fast, feeling a little trapped by the mundane machine of life and who suddenly […]
(500) Days of Summer
I’ve just got around to watching (500) Days of Summer and, I have to say, it was every bit as marvellous as I was expecting it to be. For an Independent film, this really has done magnificently, and perhaps shows that you don’t need big corporate Hollywood movie bucks when it comes to making a […]
REVIEW: HAIR (West End, London)
Be warned dear reader, and be prepared to stand back, for I have just got back from watching the press night for the latest musical to throw open its doors in the West End, and all I have to say is WOW! WOW! WOW! I had been looking forward to seeing this production for nearly […]
GIG REVIEW: Paloma Faith, SBE (29 Mar 2010)
Tonight I was lucky enough to get to see Paloma Faith at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London – and WOW, she blew me away! Unusually, this was a gig that we’d actually paid to go see (Christmas present from Greg :)), and so I’d been tremendously excited for months about it, to the point […]
Michael Crichton: The Great Train Robbery
I’ve recently been reading Michael Crichton’s historical novel The Great Train Robbery [Random House, 1975]. “In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Rich, handsome and ingenious, Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly […]
Gari Wellingham 