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Archive for June, 2008

City of London Festival

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

City of London Festival

The Last Mughal

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple

Edwin Lutyens By His Daughter

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Edwin Lutyens by Mary Lutyens

Dangalnama

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Dangalnama at the Theatre Royal, Stratford

Natacha Atlas at the Pigalle Club

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Natacha Atlas enters the stage in the cosy surroundings of the Pigalle Club very discretely. Some seated diners are still finishing off their lemon tart with ice cream on top. Only after the first number does the crowd’s almost delirious affection for her become apparent. Extended applause, whoops and a few continental ‘La, la, Natacha!’s.

Running through new material, much of which is introduced by her ‘musical director’, it’s apparent that she has gone back to a more stripped down, traditional set. Sorrowful, almost gypsy-esque, and peppered with acoustic guitars, accordion and violin, the sound is also rich and measured. Althogh heavily syncopated, it never breaks free into true eastern rumbustiousness. At one point they do an incredible, restrained cover of Black Is The Colour (Of My True Love’s Hair), an old Appalachian folk song from the early 20th century.

In the second half, after a break “to take more drugs”, they return to older material. Atlas seems more confident during this part ofthe show. Her voice swoops and trills, a magnificent instrument. At the end she even does a bit if belly dancing to the crazed accompaniment of rattling bongos.

Why hasn’t Nelson Mandela spoken out against Robert Mugabe?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Typically contentious article concerning Nelson Mandela’s silence over Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe. In it he says Mandela is “…making himself complicit in the pillage and murder of an entire nation.”

A Modern Indian Woman’s Struggle with Arranged-Marriage

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Lots about Anita Jain’s epic struggle to get married…

The marrying kind
A modern Indian woman’s struggle
An open letter to Anita Jain

Hamish Hamilton’s new magazinbe

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Hamish Hamilton’s new literary magazine Five Dials, named after a lost part of London which was once “a den of iniquity, a haven for criminals, a slummy, ragged bit of the city cleaved away to make room for a broadening of Charing Cross.”

Jesus’ Reign Is Coming

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Flickr spam! I got spammed by this bible-bashing weirdo.

Natacha Atlas

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Natacha Atlas at the Pigalle Club