... REVIEWS have rough edges as seems to be made up of them — and his choice of songs decidedly and unapologetically sentimental, but his music moves on to a different plane when he takes up the uillean pipes, something he did not do often enough for me. ...

... Reviews Edir{burgh Folk Festival's opening “Fleadh™ weekend. > _ Making their Scottish debut at the Queen’s Hall on Friday, the Sligobased six-piece Dervish (not the whirling kind, but, yes, they certainly ‘can shig) lived up to their reputation with ...

... REVIEWS the ing Bach Cantata No 140, Wachet Auf. The singing was generally (although not entirely) technically sound and well-disciplined under conductor Timothy Byram-Wigfield, ‘while violinist Leonard Friedman, who led St Mary’s Cathedral Orchestra ...

... Review tion. Potter had told the story of a creepy young man called Martin who calls on the distraught Bates family, and offers to look after their seemingly vegetative daughter. Martin’s hidden agenda, it emerges, is literally diabolical. Potter’s w ...

... reviewers wherever it lies, certainly does not lie in the originality of the tales, so everyone will recall the moment when Dick Whittington, having been falsely accused of theft in his patrons’ shop, is obliged to leave London to trudge home, writes ...

... REVIEWS . tionately big {lupetsomlity — akin to that of the full moon astride the horizon. Such a magical twilight was provided in the Laigh Room of St Cecilia’s Hall by Dundeeborn guitarist Robert Phillips. Entitled Homage to Catalonia, the evening was ...

... Review concert in the main auditorium. What 15°less easy to explain is exactly what it is_in their music which retains that level of support vear after year. : - Wihat the band do is essentially to import the participatory. rough-andready: ethos of the ...

... REVIEW THE TINKER’S WEDDING/RIDERS TO THE SEA CITIZENS' THEATRE, GLASGOW of matrimony, her uncertain, feckless fiancé and his conniving, guileful mother as well as a drunken, avaricious priest who refuses to officiate until he is handsomely paid. The ...

... REVIEW Neil Cooper : CREEPING Bent Records has done its growing up in public, and this Planet Pop showcase saw the . * Glasgow label’s bands at the .- Ppeak of their powers. Policecat - are essentially Royal Bronco playing different instruments, . ...

... REVIEWS L’Elisir d’Amore Cottier Theatre, Gl Kenneth Walton OPERA on a Shoestring lives up to its name. For a coulilia.ny- on a low budget - rather like the penurious Nemorino, hero of Donizetti's L Elisir d’Amore which the group is presenting at Glasgow’s ...

... REVIEWS ROCK 60ft Dolls, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow e BRITAIN is full of bands who want to sound like their heroes and most of them get away with it. *. Some do it with panache (Blur, Supergrass), others with passion {Qasis). Relative newcomers, ...

... Reviews - role as the maniacal Mrs Husk; Jenny McCrindle is ‘incredibly agile as the;:ghysically .challenged Agnes, but it’s a triumph of ensemble work and behind the final glitz and schmaltz, watch you don’t cut yourself on the satire. ~ The filay tours ...