This is the first is a new series of ‘What I’ve been listening to…’ columns. CultureKicks also has a ‘What I’ve been reading…’ column by Emily Rhodes, a ‘What I’ve been watching…’ column by Peter Hoskin, and a ‘What I’ve been looking at…’ one by Claudia Massie. As I ticked [...]
‘Bah’. If I had to condense the many varied and conflicting sentiments that appear alongside the #bbcqt hashtag into a single word, that would be it – ‘Bah’. In fact, looking at the feed at this precise moment in time*, Bah seems very much to be the order of the [...]
This is the first is a new series of ‘What I’ve been looking at…’ columns by Claudia Massie. CultureKicks also has a ‘What I’ve been reading…’ column by Emily Rhodes, a ‘What I’ve been watching…’ column by Peter Hoskin, and will soon add a ‘What I’ve been listening to…’ one [...]
If you sit in the window of the Caffe Nero on Cranbourn Street, near Leicester Square Tube station, and look across the heads of the passing tourists, you will see rising out of the ox-blood tiles above the Wok to Walk Chinese takeaway opposite a relief carving of a set of [...]
What is a classical music critic doing at The Knife? We’re not supposed to frequent the coolest gigs in town. We’re supposed to sit in the capital’s concert halls, tut-tutting if a pianist is too glitzy, shaking our heads if a new opera is too wordy. We’re certainly not meant [...]
