Festival or Famine
With the news of Marianne Faithful pulling out from performing in The Black Rider at the Sydney Festival this year, aren’t we glad we opted instead to go see the Leonard Cohen tribute? Yes, but then, we probably were, anyway. Meanwhile, we also hope Ms. Faithful will recover well. Her career’s rise and fall and rise again and again has offered great entertainment at its peaks, and I hear her new album is her best work since Broken English, which is a tempting prospect.