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16/05/2007

NOT Music for Grown-Ups

* Classical Brit Awards on TV last Sunday: a celebration of the dumbing down of a great musical tradition. Anna Netrebko… Katherine Jenkins… Awful. I lasted a whole five minutes.

* Van Morrison at London’s Roundhouse, according to Pete Paphides in The Times – “parodically grumpy old man… uninterested and uncommunicative… gang of middle-aged session musicians… hotel-lobby R & B arrangements… listless professionalism…” I know what he means: a former serial Vangig attender (c65 shows) myself, I quit for those reasons five years ago.

* Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary issue: great design and illuminating Dylan interview apart, a mish-mash of superannuated celebs bullsh*tting for America, the politics of the liberal playground, and the silly underlying philosophy that music changes the world. Kiss mine.

Gerry Smith

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