Arts REVIEW: Comedy of Errors The Globe at Midnight (or at any point of an evening) is a great place to visit and start your night time adventures in London and being smack in the middle of the South Bank, you can always go clubbing afterwards if you really, really have to. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Otello at ENO This was a stark and emotionally harrowing production and one of the most thrilling and upsetting Otellos I’ve seen, but the utterly monstrous and slithering compellingness of Summers’ Iago is it’s real triumph. Perhpas this was Alders point all along, to redirect us into the dark heart of this Oper By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts Book Review: Out of Uniform It’s not all shiny buttons and crisp ironed uniforms; there are some unexpected twists in the odd story, a cautionary tale about playing with fire and one or two romantic dénouements too. But all the men featured are big, buff and well turned out; the basic rugged Hero type. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: This Book Is Gay It’s an honest book from someone who’s been there and like most of us eventually learned to love himself, celebrate his life and identify all the softly spoken, whispered crap we are fed as younger LGBT people and THROW IT OUT By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Kate Bush Like The Sun Coming Out: my evening with Kate Bush, by Craig Hanlon-Smith. Such was the volcanic response from the audience at the Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday night, at the end of the first week of Kate Bush’s residency there, that her (assumed) comments of gratitude in between songs during the o By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dance: Casting Traces It was a subtly disturbing piece, full of reflection and meta reflection, us watching – being watching – watching ourselves watching while being watched, in the end it spiralled into softness, a mirror in a mirror, and I allowed the dancers the music and the ever moving set to just be and get on wit By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW:Will Grayson, Will Grayson: John Green and David Levithan This is a surprise and a well written one too, there’s so few decent books featuring a young gay character that the book should be welcomed just on that basis, the fact that’s it’s a beautifully written, enjoyable and moving story too, just makes it a great read. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Until the Sun Rises The collection covers a range of scenarios across the vamparic tradition and the plotting keeps pace with the action, of all types, allowing each story to reach a heaving erotic crescendo and satisfying the readers urgent need for horror too. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Matt Alber, Latest Bar Matt Alber at Latest Bar Brighton on July 31 in association with Authentic Productions. Sometimes all you need to hear is one bar before a singer gets to you. I had never heard of Matt Alber before I saw his concert posted by a member of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus and was not sure […] By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Looking Glass: Paul Diello Brighton-based singer/songwriter Paul Diello performed a rousing set at Brighton Pride in time for the release of his second album, Looking Glass. The collection kicks off with the ‘80s-tinged single, ‘(I Am A) Voodoo Doll’, a creeping, almost hypnotic, track surely suitable for a late-night shimmy By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Tavener at Royal Albert Hall Nick Boston reviews BBC Prom 25: Monday, August 4 2014, 9.15pm at The Royal Albert Hall Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Heath Quartet, The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor) Sir John Tavener (1944-2013): Ikon of Light (first performance at the Proms) Requiem Fragments (BBC commission, world pre By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts Review: Drag King Richard III Drag King Richard the Third is well worth catching, it’s a thoughtful and powerful piece of directly challenging modern drama while allowing the humanity of its subject matter to sit next to us, turn to face us and speak directly to our own experiences of life By Eric Page • 3 min read
