Our NMP..UK events in review
The Guardian’s music correspondent Kate Molleson travels the UK to bring you reviews of all our NMP…UK events
“…they bounce and shoogle to the kora’s gentle beat…” Adventures in Music produced by Danielle Rose with Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery |
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“…a huge, whimsical contraption that looks something between industrial steampunk and kindergarten playtime…” Sarah Kengington’s Windpipes at Edinburgh Art Festival, produced by Suzy Glass |
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“…for the audience the brazen cross-fertilisation is inescapable…” Music Language Redux at Dundee Contemporary Arts centre, produced Fielding Hope |
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“…a small throng of moshers breaks out at the front of the crowd; the courtyard atmosphere lifts from quiet enchantment to rock festival main-stage…” An Evening of Enlightenment at BEAM, produced by Noah Burton |
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“…there’s an easy continuity about the evening: each singer introduces the next until a fleet of eight musicians is ranged across the stage…” The Voice Squad & Friends at the MAC, Belfast, produced by Eamon Murray |
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“…samples of sirens and shattering glass spoke shot through the musical fabric; there was real viciousness in the relentless, hard-driven rhythms…” Bunker, part of Out of Place at Arnolfini, produced by Jon Stevens |
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“…a huge cheer went up after the triumphant final chord, which rang out for what seemed like minutes..” Lachrymose at Turner Contemporary, produced by Tania Holland Williams |
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“…the questions it prompted from the audience after the screening were impressively broad, candid and inquisitive…” Terre Thaemlitz’s Soulnessless: Cantos I-IV at Sheffield Showroom and Workstation, produced by Alex Keegan |
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“…already we’ve seen some of the MIMA Live audience coming back to check out exhibits…” MIMA Live #5, produced by Jordan Bell |
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“…the audience half sat, half stood in rapt attention…” From Now On at Chapter, Cardiff, produced by Mark Daman Thomas | |
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“…the near-capacity audience in Durham seemed thrilled with the premiere…“It’s like Las Vegas come to Durham,” Wilkinson joked, to hearty whoops from the crowd.” British Sea Power: Sea of Brass at Durham Brass Festival produced by Kate Walters |