PREVIEW & PREDICTIONS: Eurovision Song Contest final 2017
We predicted nine of the 10 semi 1 qualifiers with only our favourite, Finland, being the one we got wrong.
- Read on for reasons including our predictions for Saturday’s 16 qualifiers so far
Author: mrmonstagigz
ALBUM REVIEW: Eventide by Lilac Lungs
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT: 12/5/17
TRACKLISTING: All I Have; Circle; Fallen For Your Face; Fine; Guard Dog; Next To Nothing; Uh Oh; Us Vs Ourselves; Welcome To The Fallout; Young Warrior
The best place to start describing the beauty of this debut album by Detroit indie band Lilac Lungs is probably with lead singer Emily Torres’ ethereal vocal.
- Read on for reasons including the video for single Next To Nothing
THEATRE REVIEW: Lettice and Lovage starring Felicity Kendal and Maureen Lipman
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Menier Chocolate Factory
WHEN: 5/5, press night 17/5, runs to 8/7
Author Sir Peter Shaffer wrote this three-act play for Dame Maggie Smith in 1987, when we first saw it, and it won her a Tony.
- Read on for reasons including which of its stars took two prompts on this second preview
GIG REVIEW: Ed Sheeran
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: The O2
WHEN: 2/5/17
SETLIST: Castle On The Hill; Eraser; The A Team; Don’t/New Man; Dive; Bloodstream; Happier; Galway Girl; How Would You Feel (Paen); I’m A Mess; Photograph; Perfect; Nancy Mulligan; Thinking Out Loud; Sing; Shape Of You; You Need Me, I Don’t Need You
How many of us can say that we’ve received a marriage proposal during an Ed Sheeran gig?
- Read on for reasons including our hopes for Ed’s Glastonbury headliner set
THEATRE REVIEW: Angels In America (Parts 1 and 2)
WORTH A LOOK?: *****/****
WHERE: National Theatre
WHEN?: 29/4/17, runs to 19/8
Today’s two-plays-in-a-day extravaganza will be much appreciated by those who enjoy bingeing on their favourite TV boxsets.
- Read on for reasons including why Andrew Garfield is the outstanding star of this
Madame Rubinstein starring Miriam Margolyes & Frances Barber
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Park Theatre
WHEN: 28/4, runs to 27/5
Helena Rubinstein emigrated from Poland to Australia in 1902, with no money and little English, formed one of the world’s first cosmetics companies and became one of its richest women.
- Read on for reasons including why this reminded us of an ageing French and Saunders
The Treatment starring Indira Varma & Julian Ovenden
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Almeida
WHEN: 27/4 to 10/6
How comfortable are we with the notion that no-one’s real life story is actually their own?
- Read on for reasons including which Game Of Thrones star has much fun in this
Sonnet Walk & Shakespeare Within The Abbey starring Mark Rylance
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN: 22/4/17
WHERE: East London/Westminster Abbey
We started Shakespeare’s birthday weekend with Live In This And Dwell In Lovers’ Eyes, a two-hour walk from Shoreditch to the Globe Theatre.
- Read on for reasons including details of Mark Rylance’s Westminster Abbey triumph
Q&A: Victoria with Jenna Coleman & Tom Hughes
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 8/4
He’s midway through shooting the second series and Tom Hughes has his head in his hands as key scenes from it are shared with this Q&A audience.
- Read on for reasons including details of the show’s second season
PREVIEW: 9 reasons why we can’t wait for May
- We go ape for the Eurovision Song Contest
The final of the 62nd contest takes place in Kiev, Ukraine, on 13/5 at 8pm on BBC1 and the pre-contest publicity has been dominated by the host country’s banning of Russia’s entry. Check out the search box for our predictions for this year which include the contest’s most surefire winner: Occidentali’s Karma by Francesco Gabbani (pictured above).
- Read on for reasons including Felicity Kendal, new band Lilac Lungs & a Game Of Thrones Q&A
