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Good noisy fun: black midi, at the Edinburgh International Festival, reviewed

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

Erland Cooper; Moses Boyd; black midi

Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh International Festival

This year we must love Edinburgh for her soul rather than her looks. The EIF should be commended for making the best of a tricky hand, but the lodgings for its music programme bring to mind a fallen society beauty forced from her New Town villa into a rented bedsit.

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