Fascinating Aïda – review

Southbank Centre, LondonNot for the first time, a cheap flight takes us from somewhere pedestrian to somewhere delightful. I found the first half of Fascinating Aïda's gig easy to admire but hard to love. The joke – mordant songs about modernity sung in old-school, West End Wendy-style – was too obvious, and too cheap, as if this female Flanders and Flanders and Swann trilling about "stiffies" and "John Thomases" were inherently outrageous. Then they sang their Ryanair-bashing internet hit ...

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