Diamanda Galas, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (GB) - Jan 2, 1989

Extraordinary performance by Diamanda Galas - voice, piano, electronics - entitled Masque of the Red Death, referring to the current plague of AIDS. The individual parts were: Song to the Dead, Amanes, The Resistance, This Is the Law of the Plague, Deliver Me from Mine Enemies, Free among the Dead (Psalm88/Lamentations), Sono L'Antichristo, You Must Be Certain of the Devil, Let's Not Chat about Despair, Double-Barrel Prayer, Let My People Go, Artemis. Galas, dressed in black, deployed an amazing voice in terms of range, tone and technique. Very loud. Unique. Reviewed by Russell Lack in Wire 61, March 1989.