You, dear reader, are given the chance to vote in 16 categories from late November this year to tell us your favourite theatre, music, TV, film and podcast of 2023.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
TRACKLIST: The Ballad; St Charles Square; Barbaric; Russian Strings; The Everglades (For Leonard); The Narcissist; Goodbye Albert; Far Away Island; Avalon; The Heights
Blur played 2 rapturously received Wembley Stadium shows this month (where they are pictured above) but we haven’t seen them live since their Parklife heyday at the end of the last century.
Do you remember the first time? Glastonbury Festival was due to celebrate its 50th birthday this month and to celebrate we’re casting our mind back to the highlights of the five years we’ve attended.
WORTH A LOOK?: **1/2
WHERE: National Theatre
WHEN: 30/1, running to 30/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVhWUlJKxog
A teenage audience member’s face turns sour as she is covered in liquid by a baby doll which appears to be throwing up over the front row at this musical co-written by Blur’s Damon Albarn.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Queen’s Theatre
WHEN: 6/1, runs to 10/16
Billed on its official website as the ‘world’s longest running musical’, is Les Misérables sprinting ahead, keeping pace or losing puff?
