The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

  We should actively celebrate the Christian basis of Christmas, and not allow politically correct Grinches to marginalise Christianity an...

(from Private Eye) Show of Hands 29 Nov 2010 Colston Hall "At every trough you stop to feed..." sings Steve Knightley. "W...

Fish Custard is now available in cartons.... The Viewer's Tale volume 2  Andrew Rilstone's collected reviews and digressions ab...

The timing of the wedding has yet to be fixed. In a bizarre twist, it falls on the same date as Adolf Hitler's macabre marriage to Eva B...

"This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths—just because ...

"I’ll be a story in your head, but that’s okay, because we’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you...

A man thinks that Thing-A is Very Bad. He also thinks that Thing-B is Very Bad. He has to admit, however, that Thing-B makes Thing-A Slightl...

My taste is apparently sufficiently mainstream that it overlaps substantially with the judges of the Radio 2 folk awards.  That makes me fee...

Bellowhead Bristol Old Vic 10 November Bellowhead are quite good and a bit over the top, in the same way that the Pope is quite religi...

first published Sep 6th 1997 Oh, what a circus.... Both nuns and mothers worship images But those the candle lights are not as those ...

Please note. You should have said "The whole country apart from Andrew wishes them every happiness." Or, in your language "Th...

Tom Paxton St George's Hall, Bristol 8 Nov 2010 Confession time. Although I am reliably informed that Tom Paxton is a living legend...

Martin Simpson 7 Nov Colston Hall, Bristol And then there are evenings which you can't even try to review: evenings when the singer ...

Waterson : Carthy Chapel Arts, Bath Nov 4th Norma Waterson looks like your granny. Eliza Carthy looks pregnant. Sitting at the back of the ...

Show of Hands Wells Cathedral Oct 23 Regular readers may recall that I can't quite make up my mind about Show of Hands. Having now seen...