Michael Hann

Full of love: Butler, Blake and Grant, at the Union Chapel, reviewed

Plus: at the Moth Club, The Loft allowed a small number of middle-aged people to relive their youths

issue 11 March 2023
  • Comments

  • Butler, Blake and Grant

    Union Chapel, and touring until 11 March

  • The Loft

    Moth Club

Years ago, I asked Robert Plant what he felt about the world’s love of ‘Stairway to Heaven’. He said he no longer really knew what the song was about, and it didn’t mean an awful lot to him. But, he added, that didn’t really matter because the people who loved the song had given it their own meaning.

GIF Image

Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it

TRY A MONTH FREE
Our magazine articles are for subscribers only. Try a month of Britain’s best writing, absolutely free.

Read next

Trending

Isabel Hardman

Neither Starmer nor Badenoch got what they wanted from PMQs

Keir Starmer wanted to spend Prime Minister’s Questions talking about the UK’s trade deal with India, while Kemi Badenoch – and later SNP leader Stephen Flynn – wanted to attack the government’s energy and welfare policies. Neither side really succeeded in its aims: Starmer ended up shoehorning the trade deal into random answers, while Badenoch

Also in Arts Reviews

Also by Michael Hann

Latest

Comments

Join the debate, free for a month

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first month free.

Already a subscriber? Log in