Also at the Phoenix until Tuesday is Tony Gatliff's wonderful documentary, Latcho Drom, which will be a must for anyone who enjoyed his earlier study of Romany music, Gadjo Dilo, writes David Parkinson.

Following the travelling peoples from their homelands in northern India across Africa and Mitteleuropa to Spain, this abstract odyssey is more a celebration of human indomitability and cultural vivacity than a protest against centuries of prejudice and injustice.

What is so fascinating about this graceful musical tribute, is not just how the lyrics become increasingly bitter in countries where the persecution of the Romanies has been most vicious, but also how the music has both influenced and embraced the indigenous folk sound. Using song and dance as testimony, this is oral history of an immediate and emotive kind.