Live Reviews
From pubs to festivals to arenas, out and about with tQ
Live Reviews
DNA Can Dance: Wayne McGregor Reviewed & Interviewed
Wayne McGregor has created a dance work based on his own DNA, with music by JLin. In this interview, shortly after the premiere of Autobiography, McGregor talks to Suze Olbrich about codes, stories, spaces, and the nature of live-ness.
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The Possibility Of A Forest: Unsound 2017
At one of the world’s greatest festivals - Unsound in Krakow - John Doran can’t see the wood for the trees. Luckily Arturas Bumšteinas’ baroque weather machinery, the writing of Mark Fisher, GAS, Zimpel/Ziolek, a guide to the primeval forest of Europe and the unexpected arrival of some eco-protestors are all on hand to help him
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Europe, Endless? On Watching Kraftwerk Live, A Year After Brexit
Almost exactly a year after the UK voted to leave the EU Luke Turner finds the experience of watching Kraftwerk play live has acquired an unexpected melancholy aspect. Do we Brits no longer deserve their European futurism?
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Warped Bliss: The Quietus At Field Day 2017
Heralding the start of the UK's 2017 festival season - and what a promising start it was too with the sun shining for most of the day - Thomas Hobbs, Patrick Clarke, Aurora Mitchell, Tara Joshi, Anna Wood and Christian Eede report back on what this year's edition of the festival had to offer. (Photographs by Valerio Berdini unless stated)
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DJ Windows 98 Live: Arcade Fire’s Win Butler & Haiti
Arcade Fire's Win Butler promised Reflektor would sound like a mix of "Studio 54 and Haitian Vodou," prompting calls of cultural appropriation. Now, he co-owns a Haitian restaurant and fuses American pop and Haitian konpa as DJ Windows 98. Haitian music nerd David Henderson traces Butler's Haiti obsession back to its source
