Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Voice and guitar virtuosity from Roberts and Lakeman
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
Cecil Sharp House, London/Touring
OUT and about to promote their must-hear new album Personae, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman win the audience over as much with their candour as the engrossing music they offer up.
Theirs is an intimate set, allowing close-up appreciation of Roberts’s extraordinary vocal range and interpretative skill and Lakeman’s startling guitar mastery.
We're all captivated by the tragic melancholy of 52 Hertz, a song about a Pacific Ocean whale who mysteriously transmitted his calls on a frequency inaudible to other whales — who use a different wavelength — and consequently became the loneliest whale on Earth. Marine biologists believe he was born deaf.
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