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John Butcher & Mark Sanders – Daylight - May 2012 May 27th, 2012
Once, John Butcher pitched saxophone improvisations into the unknown acoustics of highland caves and offshore oil tanks. Here he engages with the percussionist Mark Sanders, a human arguably more inspiring, it appears, than a vast empty space. Most popular music takes place en plein soleil. Butcher maintains that Ropelight, the thirty minute live recording that…
The Imagined Village – Bending The Dark - May 2012 May 14th, 2012
Simon Emmerson’s Imagined Village seek a rapprochement between the English folk tradition and post-colonial world music. Their third album finds sitars and tablas alongside the pedigree vocals of Jackie Oates and an especially majestic Eliza Carthy, and Get Kalsi and The Guvna mix devotional sincerity with an arch meditational lounge muzak. Perhaps Bending The Dark’s…
Stewart Lee at the Octagon Theatre, Yeovil - May 2012 Yeovil People - By IconoGlast - May 9th, 2012
As an antithesis to modern comedy where we are force fed floppy haired fops (who charge £31 quid just to watch their work in progress shows); manic young upstarts called Russell (who can be seen endlessly regurgitating their material in snippets on Mock the Week); and those whose aim is simply to shock (otherwise known…