"They have a combined age of 273, but the four Stones remain an extraordinary live proposition," John Aizlewood wrote in the Evening Standard.
"Jagger, camp and louche, was a preening but energetic peacock; Richards was as cool as a man sporting a red hairband and turquoise jacket could possibly be; Ronnie Wood was a chirpy mascot and that ocean of serenity Charlie Watts showed the tiniest of drumkits can make the biggest noise," he said.
Olympic Honour - Danny Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony has been honoured at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The Oscar-winning director and his team got huge cheers when they picked up the Beyond Theatre award from gold medal-winning Team GB cyclist Victoria Pendleton.
"We hoped to prove that culture runs through all of us and binds us all together," Boyle said. The awards, hosted by James Corden, were held at the Savoy Hotel on Sunday. Picking up his award, Boyle urged the audience to lobby for the inclusion of arts subjects in the English Baccalaureate. Other winners took the opportunity to speak out against theatre funding cuts.
Festivals 2013 - The Stone Roses are to headline next year's Isle Of Wight Festival. Organisers say the band's performance on Friday 14 June will be their only UK festival appearance in 2013. Festival promoter John Giddings said: "When you talk about the soundtrack of our lives, The Stone Roses are embedded in it. I am so proud to get them to our island - they will kick the weekend off with a bang."
Farewell - Chris Stamp, one of the original managers of The Who, has died of cancer at the age of 70. Band member Roger Daltrey paid tribute to him on stage in Detroit on Saturday. He described Stamp as a man "without whom we wouldn't be the band we were", according to Billboardmagazine.
Stamp co-founded the group's Track Records label. He co-managed The Who with Kit Lambert and also helped to launch the career of Jimi Hendrix. Daltrey told the audience at Joe Louis arena that Stamp "flew into the universe on a pair of rainbow wings". Stamp died on Saturday at Mount Sinai hospital in New York.
(Jim Evans)
