Michael Hann

‘Psychedelic folk that twists and leaps’: Beth Gibbons, at the Barbican, reviewed

Plus: the Zombies storm the Barbican and the guitar genius that is St Vincent captures the Royal Albert Hall

Beth Gibbons performs at London’s Barbican Centre. Credit: Burak Cingi/Redferns) 
issue 15 June 2024

A decade ago, a group of people who owned small music venues came to the conclusion that the kinds of places they ran were teetering on the brink of a catastrophic extinction event. And so they formed the Music Venue Trust, which has spent ten years kicking cans and shouting the odds about the need to preserve these places, about how they are the production lines from which the festival headliners of tomorrow come.

A brilliant guitarist, a fascinating songwriter, St Vincent cycles sleekly through styles with utter assurance

Quite right.

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