MIAF: Songs of Exile

Alison's Festival Diary #2Songs of Exile, Diamanda Galas; Hamer Hall, Victorian Arts Centre. There's no question that Diamanda Galas is demanding. She demands your attention from the moment she walks on to the stage and paces, without pause or preamble, towards the piano. She demands that you listen and that you think. Most of all, she demands that you feel.But the feeling she summons is no