London’s stars give us a long environmental lecture, plus the best of April’s live music 3/5 Everyone from David Suchet to Brian May came to the Coliseum to make poetic speeches, sing Greta Thunberg lyrics and generally scare us all Misha Mullov-Abbado and Alice Zawadski back up Sam Lee at the London Coliseum Credit: Song for Nature Song for Nature ★★★★☆ In the vast space of an otherwise empty London Coliseum, Sir David Suchet took to the stage to announce “Our Royal Variety Performance for Her Majesty the Earth”, with a thespian reverence that suggested he wasn’t even joking. But then the Song for Nature concert was no laughing matter, attempting a difficult blend of bad news and highbrow artistic entertainment, mixing urgent calls for environmental activism in the face of climate disaster with the musical exaltation of the natural world. It was an experience akin to watching grim talking heads proclaim “we’re doomed, we’re doomed, we’re all doomed! – but, before we go, here’s a modern dance interpretation of the extinction of the skylark set to a choral rearrangement of an ancient Scottish folk song.”