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What? No Marianne?
June 08, 2004

Exactly... We went to see Black Rider on Monday only to find that Marianne Faithfull was otherwise "indisposed"... Not to worry though, her stand in was a star. In fact a great cast all round. Sam described the whole thing as Tim Burton does Cabaret. Which I think, pretty much sums it up. Although your normal theatre goer would probably disagree. I don't know much about Robert Wilson, apart from his collaborations with Tom Waits, who I doubt I will ever get to see live. So this may be the closest I get.

I've never been a great fan of William Burroughs but his text for this is oddly funny considering the subject matter and his history with firearms! Musically, the band pulled off a fantastic interpretation of the album and there were some extraordinary vocal performances. I was a bit wary of the fact that the performance was to be two hours long. The album [not the easiest listen in the world] was only 45-50 minutes... or whatever vinyl albums used to be? I'm sure it was only a single album... or was it? Anyway. The two hours flew.

We saw Chris at the weekend too... And off we went to Edward Hopper at the Tate. Expected to like this more than I did. Apart from the obvious works the rest look like painting by numbers pictures. Or as Chris said, "something your auntie would knock out" [or words to that effect!].
Many reviews I read didn't like the works with people in them. They were Hoppers' only saving grace in my eye. He was certainly a "scene" painter of some skill but I wouldn't say he was a Realist at all.

If you are thinking of going wait till the frenzy has died down. You'll spend ages trying to get a decent look at anything you like and spend ages looking at something you don't! Nice to see Chris though.

Categories: Music, Art, London

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