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We’ve got the beat on Seattle bands at mid-year.
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 24, 2007
A slow build has been occurring over the past few years with talents like Damien Jurado Neko Case (since moved to Chicago) Laura Veirs (now a Portlander) Jesse Sykes and a few others gaining critical notice across the country. Now some young acts have gone the next step with commercial success. And there’s another wave behind them as Seattle’s music scene continues to expand and contort like some mad scientist’s experiment. Death Cab has been quiet this year after a star-making 2006. Here are a few local acts that have “gone national” in 2007 — and some others that.

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Theatre: The Lord of the Rings Theatre Royal Drury Lane London WC2…
The bserver – Jun 24, 2007
Some of them are impressive. There’s a graceful shadowy troupe of Black Riders – half-horse half-men who swish loftily along skirted as in a medieval joust and there’s a terrific house-size spider. Black-leather rcs scuttle beetle-like down the aisles on metal sticks like scarab Richard IIIs; long-faced and long-winded ents (a lot of the creatures here sound as if they should be suffixes) loom above the action on stilts. All these beings come on get applauded and then push off: sometimes they’ll have had a bit of a spat first but not one of them moves events along with any urgency. If you don’t know your orc from your Evenstar you’re going to be mildly bewildered. Although every now and then someone lumpishly relates a bit of back-story it’s never clear how one thing leads to another let alone why anyone should mind. Frantic movement doesn’t equal excitement: the stage of The Lord of the Rings is hardly ever still – elves and hobbits and dwarfs and wizards and rangers of the north are always bobbing up and down or spinning around – but as so often a revolving stage looks less as if it’s reflecting action more as if it’s desperately chasing a thrill… Michael Therriault gives a really striking performance – the knockout number of the show writhing around as the tormented villain Gollum as if he were a reptile trying to shed a loathsome skin. But no individual can float the show. The music – by AR Rahman and the Finnish group Varttina with Christopher Nightingale – might have done so if it had been given a chance. The score doesn’t provide a big takeaway tune but it’s got texture – with its convincing folk melodies and plangent pipes.