This is a place to collate my classical and popular music reviews and coverage. You can also check out my reviews of a variety of films and concerts on video over at Letterboxd.
2026
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird (film, music video)
Broken English – Marianne Faithfull (film)
MILES. (Southwark Playhouse)
BBC Proms: Miles Davis Centenary (Royal Albert Hall)
BBC Proms: Bond and Beyond (Royal Albert Hall)
Sam Ryder and Jesus Christ Superstar (London Palladium)
2025
Winchell the Musical (album)
Henry Patterson – Broadway Maybe (album)
Marisha Wallace – Live in London (album)
2024
Schwartz Songs (album)
The Stationmaster – a musical drama (album)
501 essential albums of the 80s (book)
2023
Ryan Terrigno – Alive & Well (album)
Matthew Harvey – Whatever Happens Next (album)
Interstate Island – Brave New World (album)
Rachel Tucker – You’re already home … (album)
Ride – the Musical (album)
Univore – Turquoise Hands (album)
Bonnie and Clyde – West End recording (album)
JCS: A Resurrection / She Is Risen (albums)
Edinburgh Fringe: Gethsemane (AI digital theatre)
Dio: Dreamers Never Die (film)
Billy Idol: State Line (film)
Nicky Hopkins: The Session Man (film)
2022
Frank’s Closet (archive recording)
King Crimson: In The Court of the Crimson King (film)
2021
Danielle Steers – The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be (album)
The Callaway Sisters: Side With Side (digital theatre)
I Could Use A Drink (digital theatre)
2020
Cassidy Janson – Beautiful and Beyond (London Coliseum, Balcony Bar)
Siobhan Dillon – One Voice (album)
Jason Kravits – Off The Top (Crazy Coqs) *
Celebrating the musical on screen
2019
Samantha Barks – Night Cap (Turbine Theatre)
Kelli O’Hara (Cadogan Hall)
Caissie Levy (Cadogan Hall)
Woman to Woman (Cadogan Hall)
Liza Pulman Sings Streisand (Cadogan Hall) *
Trial by Jury and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
Legends Live (SSE Arena, Wembley)
Chita Rivera (Cadogan Hall)
Friday Night is Music Night (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
2018
The Human League (Eventim Apollo)
The Human League (Kew the Music)
Suzanne Vega (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
2017
Rainbow (O2 Arena)
Window to the soul: singers I would recommend you try
2016
Katherine Jenkins (Barbican Centre)
The Human League (Royal Festival Hall)
Opera North’s Ring Cycle (Royal Festival Hall)
The Magic Flute and Budapest Festival Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall)
a-ha (O2 Arena)
Oliviers in Concert (Royal Festival Hall)
Deep Purple Studio Albums Revisited part 1 | part 2
2015
Andre Rieu (SSE Arena, Wembley)
Randy Newman (Royal Festival Hall)
Radio Stanshall (Bloomsbury Theatre)
Staatkapelle Berlin/Barenboim (Royal Festival Hall)
Royal Opera Live: Die fliegende Hollander
Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle (Royal Festival Hall)
Twisting the Dial and BBC Concert Orchestra (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
Friday Night is Music Night (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
2014
Pelléas et Mélisande (Southbank Centre)
Joan Baez (Royal Festival Hall)
Chrissie Hynde (Royal Festival Hall)
Christy Moore (Royal Festival Hall)
Pull Out The Stops: Organ Gala Concert (Royal Festival Hall)
Heaven 17 (Birmingham Town Hall)
2013
Petula Clark (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
Leonard Cohen (O2 Arena)
Divas in London: Dear World and Liza Minnelli
An evening with Rolf Harris (Royal Festival Hall)
2012
Glamorous Night: a celebration of Ivor Novello (Royal Albert Hall)
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim (Royal Albert Hall)
First Night of the Proms (Royal Albert Hall)
Brynfest (Royal Festival Hall)
Simón BolÃvar Symphony Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall)
The Manfreds (Millfield Arts Centre)
The Yeoman of the Guard and Philharmonia Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall)
Solid Silver 60s (Swan Theatre, High Wycombe)
The Dream of Gerontius and Southbank Sinfonia (Royal Festival Hall)
Katherine Jenkins (HMV Apollo, Hammersmith)