Monday 6 February 2012

I nipped into town to hear Fiona Rutherford’s New Voices commission for Celtic Connections yesterday: some of it was very beautiful and some of it was very interesting, which is what you want from a commission really. Making any sort of musical impact in the Strathclyde Suite is quite a task, as it has all the atmosphere of a down-at-heel Travelodge (and the PA seemed unnecessarily hissy to me). And it was really good to hear an eight-piece band who were all women without anyone making a big deal about it. Oh, I just did, bugger.