Antony and the Johnsons - one of today's great live acts?
In our Uncut show this Friday we've got two new songs from the remarkable Antony Hegarty and three of the Johnsons (Julia, Max and Rob). They perform Epilepsy is Dancing and Another World, from the album The Crying Light. I saw Antony and the Johnsons onstage at LSO St Luke's when they recorded a session for BBC Four back in 2005 and they were electrifying live.
Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons performs with the Oregon Symphony at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Have you seen them on stage? If so then let us know what you thought of them live. If not, there are UK tour dates coming up in May and June, or just enjoy them performing live in the Culture Show studio on Friday.
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A fat boy with tragic hair and sweaty pallour quavering through a meandering dirge, employing a laughably amateurish throat vibrato you might expect from an enfeebled crone croaking her last.
Some string players, (in black mourning the death of pitch perfect singing?) sat stunned into silence by the ineptitude of what they were accompanying, perhaps wondering if occasionally playing some long quiet notes was worth the expense and inconvenience of showing up. The audience's reaction was muted, hardly surprising. I've heard cheerier death rattles.
At least I missed the bumptious buffoon Kermode.
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If you don't like Antony's style of music seeing him live isn't going to convert you. I find his vibrato beautiful - it's rather mean to go on so much about his looks. He's a musician not a glossy clothes horse.
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