Harry's Place Arts

I don’t know if there are any closet bedroom producers among Harry’s Place readership – but if there are, or if you know anyone who likes to twiddle knobs, musically speaking, this is an opportunity not to be missed. Tony Allen has been called ”perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived” by Brian Eno for [...]

Hello dear Harry’s Place Arts reader.  As you will have noticed, there have been no reviews by me the last two months.  This has not been a capitulation to the enormity of the task, merely a re-grouping while I was enjoying adventures in the housing market.  These now completed, I shall soon be returning to [...]

The North Sea Radio Orchestra at the Roundhouse last year In the past couple of days, I’ve booked tickets for the following: two different shows by the North Sea Radio Orchestra, one supporting the excellent Ted Barnes at the Purcell Room on the 27th SEPTEMBER [EDIT - apologies for putting wrong date previously] (with a [...]

Most CDs sent out to music journalists, I suspect, don’t get listened to.  For me, given that several arrive every day, it can get almost impossible to keep track; I naturally home in on names I recognise, and others fall to the bottom of a “slush pile”.  Commissioning decisions then tend to get made on [...]