{"id":2430,"date":"2008-12-09T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2008\/12\/southbank\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T23:38:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:38:32","slug":"southbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/southbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Southbank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two a couple of great concerts in the Southbank Centre over the weekend.
\nOn Saturday it was John McCusker’s<\/a> Under One Sky. McCusker has put together a fascinating group of performers of Scottish and English origin who together make some wonderful music.
\nSo on stage, alongside McCusker we had Julie Fowlis (who I saw a few weeks ago<\/a>), John Tams (who’d brought a fan club), Roddy Woomble of Idlewild, and even Graham Coxon of the now reforming Blur (tickets onsale this week!).
\nEmma Reid, a half Swedish violinist was exceptional, as was Jim Causley. Indeed all the performers were, and although I did pick up the forthcoming Under One Sky CD<\/a> I evidently have much more to look into.
\nOn Monday it was a slight change of pace as I saw the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment<\/a> conducted by Sir Simon Rattle perform perform the first of two nights at the Royal Festival Hall playing Schumann’s symphonies.
\nIt was a terrific concert and it’s remarkable that you can get tickets for as little as £9.50. I still find it wonderful to go to a concert and see absolutely no sign of any speakers or microphones. By the way, during the interval I just fancied a glass of water so braced myself to fight to the bar to get a mineral water. But no! The RFH actually lays out dozens of plastic glasses of tap water for anyone who wants one. What a wonderful idea.
\nAnyway, this all makes me realise that I must visit the Southbank Centre a little more frequently (although I must also visit the much closer King’s Place<\/a> soon too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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