Vieux Farka Touré, Komedia, Brighton, February 15
The desert blues master Ali Farka Touré advised his son Vieux to become a soldier so he wouldn’t have to face the horrors of the music biz.
The desert blues master Ali Farka Touré advised his son Vieux to become a soldier so he wouldn’t have to face the horrors of the music biz.
Laurie Anderson is a magician with words and music, a tale-spinner who plays electric violin and tells stories peppered with digressions that seem inconsequential but are not.
Experimental sounds were coming from the speakers. Like you’d accidentally plugged a food mixer into the hi-fi. Then the lights dimmed and on stage came John Cale, bona fide legend and co-leader until 1968 of the Velvet Underground.
Rule number one in polite conversation is never to say anything interesting, which might have been the way of this concert by the five immaculate Berlin Philharmonic wind players had they not invited György Ligeti into the room, in the form of his Six Bagatelles.
OK, rock fans, how about an evening of classical Arab music? No, can’t see many takers out there. Not even enough to fill the back bar at Komedia.
Godfrey Reggio’s film Koyaanisqatsi, a Hopi word meaning life out of balance, was released in 1982. Wow, what a long time ago!
Marcus Mumford looked like a man who’d accidentally stumbled upon music’s holy grail. Appearing amazed he and his band had sold out the Corn Exchange, he gazed the length of the hall and said: “I can see people right to the end! There are an awful lot of people here.”
When Bush and Blair launched the war on Iraq, grey-headed baby boomers lamented the lack of protest in modern rock.
Shed a tear, people, Brighton’s best live band played its last gigs at the weekend. And, if you missed the back-to-back shows at the Komedia, shed a bucket, because they played probably their finest sets ever.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And thankfully neither Andy Sheppard nor Dave Holland did.
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