VENUE HOXTON HALL, LONDON
DATE 30/11/2023
Almost seven years since their final concert and the popularity and influence of heavy metal progenitors Black Sabbath show absolutely no signs of abating. Over in their home city, the Birmingham Royal Ballet have fashioned Black Sabbath – The Ballet, a theatrical event that sees contemporary dance applied to new orchestrations of familiar blasts from the rock canon. And down here in London, on this cold winter’s evening, there are those who challenge the orthodoxy of Black Sabbath’s history.
The screen behind the stage of this beautifully restored former music hall in the heart of London’s East End shows a short pre-gig film to claim that it was indeed Jazz Sabbath – the brainchild of jazz pianist Milton Keanes – who’d actually brought those…
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