The Trocks, as they’re affectionately known to their hordes of devotees, travel the world constantly only showing up in Britain every three or four years so there’s a high demand for tickets when they do make one of their rare appearances in Birmingham.
Just occasionally you see something that’s packed so full of good stuff you know you’ll be thinking about it for years. This is absolutely the case with Big Script’s latest offering
With a good time rock and roll sound, exemplary musicianship, and a broad-minded attitude, the six-piece Stomp and Holler played their last gig to an appreciative audience when they appeared at the Guildhall.
By a weird fluke of programming this week seems to be David Tristram week at the Garrick.
A near sell-out audience turned out to see the final two concerts during a hectic and musically diverse L2F 2015 Festival.
Billed as the 50th Anniversary tour it was hardly surprising everyone in the audience was getting on a bit – the last episode of Round The Horne was broadcast in 1968. It caught the mood as the baby boomers’ post-war world cracked open before their avid eyes.
Technically the Gala Premiere of Doreen – the Movie doesn’t need a review, if its point is publicity for the purpose of selling tickets. Because Doreen (in private life known as Gill Jordan) doesn’t need publicity.
Lichfield’s third L2F festival of folk was started by two well known local groups – and also featured a headliner that had travelled much further.
I couldn’t make the first night of this dramatisation of Meera Syal’s much-loved autobiographical novel about growing up in a 1970s Black Country village, but I caught the last night and can truly say that it’s a feel-good hit.
After We Danced was very well received during its run at Edinburgh Festival, so it was not a surprise to see a healthy audience during its first show at the Old Joint Stock Theatre.
A show at the Lichfield Garrick this week dished up a fair feast of entertainment for the packed audiences.
With a sound that straddled the cultural gap between Folk and IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), the trio of The Little Unsaid played songs from their wide repertoire of original music when they appeared at Lichfield Guildhall.
