REVIEW: GIMCRACKERY (Live at Zedel) ★★
‘Gimcrackery’ definition: ‘cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.’ The performance is advertised as ‘A vaudevillian display of daring curiosity’. Words such as ‘MYSTERY!’ and ‘EXTRAVAGANZA!’ lured me into thinking I was about to see something rather unforgettable. It was, however, rather anti-climactic. We were introduced to the alternative personality of Driscoll Bleak, ‘part Victorian […]