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Tag Archives: Royal Albert Hall

Zooming windows

Interview with members of the George Formby Society, as they attempt to break an online ukulele-playing record. — For The Critic

Strength and honour

A love letter to 20 years of watching Gladiator. — For The Critic

Did The English Patient send me to Afghanistan?

Two nights from now, by way of (ahem) a birthday present, I will be attending a live-orchestra screening of The English Patient at the Albert Hall. I had invited an old friend, a raven-haired young lady (named in Debrett’s) of impossibly romantic tendency, who first exposed me to the film in, I’d say, about 1998 […]

Gospel, according to Spaceman

Review of Spiritualized at the Albert Hall. — For theartsdesk