I would (almost) crawl over broken glass to see any production by Lichfield Youth Musical Theatre – but I never thought I would have to go as far as, well, Walsall.
With elements of folk, rock, and virtuoso violin playing that took as much from Middle Eastern music as they did from traditional fiddle playing, the bands Merry Hell and Folklaw had a lot in common when they appeared at Lichfield Guildhall.
Although when thinking of rock gigs the Guildhall may not seem like the most obvious of venues, the multi-generational audience and the sound quality of the band all added to a great night of entertainment.
There’s nothing like a whodunnit, and in some ways that was spot on here because right up until the very end we were kept guessing as to what actually had been done, by whom, why, and even exactly who to.
Detective Inspector John Rebus is a Betamax man in a VHS world. He rails against the closure of the pub and the opening of fancy restaurants, the growth of streaming, and the death of vinyl, the growth in mobile phones and the death of the land line.
