RECENT REVIEWS AND IAIN ANDERSON INTERVIEW Friday January 21 2011, 12:00 AM
RECENT REVIEWS AND IAIN ANDERSON INTERVIEW

A couple of recent reviews of Michael's performance at Strathclyde Suite as part of 2011 Celtic Connections -

Michael Maclennan for STV -

"Hmm, it’s a tough one (as well as a tongue-twister): telling a tale about a masterful tale-teller. But just as Michael Marra has amassed a series of superb songs based around his friends, fellow musicians and fictional characters so rich they may as well have existed in real life, so it’s only right that his rather wonderful show last night at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall’s Strathclyde Suite is recorded in some sort of detail for posterity."

Full review at STV-tv Celtic Connections

 

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Photograph by Dave Taylor

 

Susan Mansfield for The Scotsman

"HAVE you noticed I'm not much of a purist?" says Michael Marra, two songs into a cracker of a concert. The Bard of Dundee has been playing fast and loose with musical genres for longer than most of us care to remember, and he was on fighting form for his Celtic Connections outing"

Full review in The Scotsman

 

Iain Anderson on BBC Radio Scotland

Michael dropped in past Iain Anderson's BBC Radio Scotland Show for a blether after his Strathclyde Suite Gig. "Posted Sober" had been selected as "The Archive Record of the Week". You can listen to the show using the BBC iplayer function for the next few days.