Reviews

EP launches tend to be low key, personal affairs.  Typically, they attract people who already know the style of…

Joanna Carrick’s adaptation of Treasure Island at The Avenue Theatre, Ipswich has an interesting opening - the…

Beauty and The Beast Cambridge Junction NIE and Tobacco Factory A trip to Cambridge Junction for their annual…

Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Royal at Bury St Edmunds Until 15th January Beastly Bury St Edmunds’ Old Abbey…

As individual musicians, I have known Lucy Sampson and Jon Hart for some years.   Each are talented songwriters and…

Mercury Theatre, Colchester 3rd December 2016 Among all the seasonal shows, the character of Dick Whittington is…

I must admit to being a bit of a jazz virgin and didn’t know what I was letting myself in for when given the…

Love ‘em or loath ‘em, the region’s theatres are about to fill with wall to wall double entendres and screams of…

Billy Bragg & Joe Henry The Apex, Bury St Edmunds 15th November 2016 Another Bragg show, we know the…

Romeo and Juliet Ballet Theatre UK 22nd November Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds Clever choreography sees the…

Sue Bergin Event Coordinator at Beccles Public Hall A Very Special Evening Remembering Leonard Cohen. The…

Some people seem to come alive when they sing, Corinne Bailey Rae is one of those people.  This diminutive woman…

'Tis the last production of 2016 before 3 months of Panto takes over The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, and the…

Oysterband 5th November 2016 The John Peel Centre, Stowmarket I have no wish to sound self-indulgent but it…

It has been over eight years since I last saw KT Tunstall live.  Back then, a miserable day weather-wise, lightened…

Sister Act has been touring the UK for the past few months, and it's finally landed in Ipswich for the week at the…

Afro Celt Sound System @ The Apex Bury St Edmunds, 26th October 2016 How many bands start their first tour after…

Sweeney Todd Mercury Theatre, Colchester This has to be one of my favourite stage musicals; a real winner by…

Mercury Theatre Colchester 27th Oct 2016 Few can be unaware of the legendary figure of Sweeney Todd, the Demon…

MAGICAL MOZART by CANDLELIGHT NEW WOLSEY THEATRE, 24TH OCTOBER 2016 Two anniversaries this year along with the…

Show Of Hands @ The Corn Exchange Cambridge, 4 November 2016 This may be a pointless task, for who hasn’t heard of…

DNA The New Wolsey Young Company. New Wolsey Studio - 20th October 2016 Theatre isn’t really something that I go…

Ushers The Musical - An Amateur Production from The Gallery Players. After an extremely stressful journey to the…

Twin Atlantic are currently on their autumn UK 2016 tour playing their latest album G.L.A. This is their 4th studio…

Night Must Fall, at The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich.  Our walk into the auditorium was accompanied by the…

The Original Theatre Company and Sailsbury Playhouse return to the New Wolsey Theatre, with their Production of…

Sex – that most natural of acts between consenting adults has been surrounded since time immemorial by shame, guilt…

Bars and Melody (also known as BAM) are a singing/rapping duo consisting of rapper Leondre Deviries (“Bars”) and…

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds Tue 4th October to Sat 8th Oct The scene is set the minute you walk into the…

Derek Nash and the Chris Ingham Trio with the Royal Hospital School Big Band at Holbrook, Ipswich on Friday 30 Sep…

The Footloose UK tour has been heading across the country throughout the year, and it has finally reached the…

The Apex, Bury St Edmunds Thursday 22nd September '16 Huge excitement, first time seeing Mr Parker, a big cheese…

We knew the story; have seen the film; know the historical statement, but The New Wolsey in Ipswich do musical…

Closing the fabulous Newmarket Nights 2016 season, were X Factor winners and twice Brit Award nominated Little Mix…

Just where do I begin to begin, I’ve not been to this Shindig before which, probably, shows a great lack of…

Day one and I’m wondering why I haven’t been here before. This idyllic little wonderland is the most perfectly…

Jess Glynne, is one of the hottest property’s in the UK right now. Visually striking, vocally outstanding, since…

I’ve lived in Cambridge for over 30 years but this was my first time at the Cambridge Folk Festival and I was keen…

Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows is now 108 years old.  No less a person than A.A. Milne adapted it for the…

As many a sternum nearly exited a body, Mark Ronson, without any announcement, kicked off his Newmarket Nights DJ…