By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
“Space Cowboy” has been orbiting the internet locally this week, a teaser for the Friday headliner at next year’s extended South Coast August Bank Holiday weekend metropolitan festival.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHEN?: Saturday 12 November, tour runs until 24 November 2022
SETLIST: It Gets Dark; Burning Bridges; Risk Of Getting Hurt; Sucker Punch; Mine Right Now; Thank Me Later; Dancer; Head On Fire; Dynamite; Bad Life; Mistake Like You; A Driver Saved My Life; Everybody Says They’re Fine; High Five; Plot Twist; Don’t Kill My Vibe; Strangers; Grow; Don’t Feel Like Crying; Mirror; High Note
‘I’m not even from the UK but you guys have made me so welcome,’ says 26-year-old Norwegian Sigrid Solbakk Raabe as she realises a childhood dream to play Wembley Arena.
Quinto (The Boys In The Band) is probably best known for his role as Spock in the rebooted Star Trek franchise and here plays Gore Vidal in the Young Vic production of this James (Ink, Almeida) Graham play opposite David Harewood as William F Buckley about the 1968 ATV TV debates. Runs at the Noel Coward Theatre 14 November through 18 February 2023. Tickets
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
This was the 1st Glastonbury Festival since 2019, the 1st 1 since it turned 50 years old in 2020 – and it didn’t disappoint.
Her Thank You Tour is currently making its way around the UK with a setlist including I’m Coming Out, Baby Love, Stop! In The Name Of Love, You Can’t Hurry Love, Chain Reaction, Upside Down and Why Do Fools Fall In Love? This is promising to be a legends slot to remember for many years to come.
We saw lead Okereke in both The Boy Friend (Menier) and Spring Awakening (Almeida) and so know how deserved this casting is. We last saw Martine McCutcheon’s triumphant take on this Lerner and Loewe classic in 2001 and it returns to the West End at the Coliseum 7 May through 27 August 2022. Tickets 1st preview review
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Sigrid’s sophomore album How To Let Go is released 6 May 2022 and this new single contains the defiantly optimistic lyric: ‘It Gets Dark so I can see the stars.’
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
RELEASED: 28 May 2021
We last saw Sigrid live at a sold-out Eventim Apollo headliner show in November 2019 and 18 months later she releases her 1st new material since Home To You made The Aeronauts soundtrack.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
OUT: now
We’ve only seen Norwegian electro pop star Annie live once we think, supporting St Etienne in October 2009 at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
monstagigz readers have been voting throughout December for their favourite pop, theatre, TV and film of 2019 from our shortlists. Read on for details of our monstas winners …
2019’s Best Performance Of A Song
