Songs in the Key of London | Pop review

Barbican, LondonThis one-off show, co-curated by Squeeze founder Chris Difford, had a weighty title, as if it were attempting to provide a definitive overview of London's musical history to rival Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city. But London has never had one signature sound, and what we had here felt more like an old-school celebrity-studded knees-up.Phil Daniels compered from an armchair, and his gorblimey shtick found an echo in the Blockheads' Chaz Jankel and Derek Hussey's r...

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