The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE
by Neil McCormick
After five years apart, the anthemic pop-rock band from Sussex return with their fifth album, Cause and Effect, a collection of grown-up songs about divorce and defeat that balances remorse with soaring choruses.
Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 (keanemusic.com) tonight and tomorrow, and touring
The former Ikette with a raw, soulful voice was a fixture of Swinging London. Arnold sang with the Rolling Stones and Small Faces, finding chart success with her covers of Angel of the Morning and
KEANE
P P ARNOLD
The First Cut Is the Deepest. Her latest solo album, The New Adventures Of… PP Arnold, evokes her classic Sixties style. Her live band is led by Steve Cradock of Ocean Colour Scene.
The Crypt, Middlesbrough (pparnold.com), Weds and touring
One of the charismatic stars of Netflix crime drama Top Boy gets back to the day job. In a fantastic year for UK rap, grime veteran Kane Robinson reached a new level on his inspirational, state-of-the-nation album Hoodies All Summer.
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow (kanomusic.com), Weds and touring
An “alternative history of modern art”, exploring the influence of cabarets, cafés and nightclubs on the avantgarde. Expect ToulouseLautrec, Weimar Berlin and a full-scale recreation of Vienna’s Cabaret Fledermaus.
Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2 (020 7638 4141), Fri-Jan 19
More than three decades of work by the celebrated American sculptor by Dominic Cavendish associated with abstract expressionism, curated by his daughters and presented in the beautiful, bucolic surroundings of this powerhouse gallery’s West Country outpost.
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton (01749 814060), today-Jan 5
KANO
INTO THE NIGHT
DAVID SMITH: FIELD WORK
TURNER PRIZE 2019
The annual prize for British contemporary art returns with a diverse, if not especially provocative, shortlist, including the much-hyped, Colombianborn abstract painter Oscar Murillo – surely, the man to beat this year.
Turner Contemporary, Margate (01843 233000), today-Jan 12
by Tristram Fane Saunders
The TV Burp host gives a leg-up to new talent with this admirable variety night. The next line-up includes Bec Hill, Suzi Ruffell, Jerk star Tim Renkow and Edinburgh Comedy Awardwinner Jordan Brookes. Moth Club, London E9 (knock2bag.co.uk), Mon
Off Limits, the brave new hour from Jonny Pelham, is about how he was abused as a child. Against all odds, the likeable young Bradford comic still makes it funny. Soho Theatre, London W1 (020 7478 0100), Thursnext Sat
The cast of the much-loved BBC Scotland sitcom about Glaswegian pensioners reunite for one last, doddery bow on home turf.
Hydro, Glasgow (0141 248 3000), until Oct 14
HARRY HILL’S CLUBNITE
JONNY PELHAM
STILL GAME: THE FINAL FAREWELL
by Mark Monahan
Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 three-acter – which tells of a courtesan tragically unable to choose between love and lucre – is a strong candidate for the title of the late choreographer’s greatest ballet, which by definition makes it one of the greatest ballets ever, full-stop.
Royal Opera House, London WC2 (020 7304 4000), Weds, Thurs and in rep until Nov 6
Britain’s oldest – but arguably most experimental – dance company goes on the road with a (very) mixed bill. The “trendy” new piece, Rouge by Marion Motin, is desperate; Wayne McGregor’s 2002 workout PreSentient pretty good; Hofesh Shechter’s In Your Rooms (2007) an absolute bombshell of brilliance. Theatre Royal, Norwich (rambert.org.uk), Weds, Thurs and touring by Tim Robey and Robbie Collin
A game of grisly hide and seek is part of a rich family’s occult tradition in this tautly entertaining horror comedy, starring Samara Weaving as the nervous bride who has no idea what she’s marrying into. Once the fateful card has been drawn she’s at their mercy and the film ramps up the Grand Guignol with hilarious outré relish, while gleefully lifting the lid on privilege.
18 cert, 95 min
Dramatisations of real-world
atrocities are nothing new, but it’s hard not to bridle at the sheer glibness of Anthony Maras’s siege thriller, which restages the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks as Die Hard via Condé Nast Traveller. Dev Patel leads the cast.
15 cert,
123 min
ROYAL BALLET: MANON
RAMBERT
READY OR NOT
HOTEL MUMBAI
THE GOLDFINCH
All the prestige polish in the world can’t animate Donna Tartt’s story about a painting – Carel Fabritius’s chained bird – purloined in the aftermath of a terrorist explosion. It’s the year’s most stiflingly inert literary adaptation, thwarting all the efforts of John Crowley (Brooklyn) and an ineffectual cast, led by Ansel Elgort and Oakes Fegley, with support from Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson and Jeffrey Wright.
15 cert, 149 min
academic interest to discover (from an early medley mix included under original title The Long One) that those lyrics were added as an afterthought. But such revelations risk erasing a bit of mystery and magic.
Back in 1969, Abbey Road was acclaimed as a perfect work of art. What this painstakingly assembled 50th anniversary release demonstrates is that you can’t improve on perfection.
Kanye West
Jesus Is King (Good)
Dermot Kennedy Without Fear (Riggins Recording)
Tegan and Sara
Hey, I’m Just Like You (Sire)
Beth Hart
War in My Mind (Mascot)