Southbank Centre, LondonNot for the first time, a cheap flight takes us from somewhere pedestrian to somewhere delightful. I found the first half of Fascinating Aïda's gig easy to admire but hard to love. The joke " mordant songs about modernity sung in old-school, West End Wendy-style " was too obvious, and too cheap, as if this female Flanders and Flanders and Swann trilling about "stiffies" and "John Thomases" …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:41AM on September 5, 2012