Wearing sombre navy jumper and dark slacks this is the more real Hartnett

Wearing sombre navy jumper and dark slacks, this is the more real Hartnett; he’s not the square-jawed military man of Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down nor the horror himbo from Halloween: H20 and The Faculty. Then, he sauntered across the screen in swoon-inducing slow motion. Indeed, it’s possible to feel a touch cynical about the advertising/endorsement potential that seems built into such a song.But Gonzalez is the real thing, and his mixing of wistful folk and West Coast singer-songwriter ambience with a Scandinavian coolness is singularly absorbing.. When Josh Hartnett walks into the room, you expect him to make an entrance like Trip Fontaine, the high-school heart-throb he played in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. Kylie’s hit “Hand on Your Heart” is a highlight, followed by a great version of the Massive Attack song “Teardrops” “Sensing Owls” sounds another potential hit.

The first half-dozen numbers – from the chiming chord-work of the opening “Deadweight on Velveteen” to the mid-tempo “All You Deliver”, with its circling, mesmerising bass figures – are performed solo, though you’d reckon there was another man hidden away in there, plucking at the strings alongside him.Half-way through, he’s joined by a light dusting of percussion, handclaps and harmony vocals from two band-members, but the ambience changes little. Ensemble was not the tightest, but sheer exuberance and dottiness carried all – a score that happily can stand alone.
Less happily standing alone was the Stravinsky. The inconsequential scenario is by Cocteau, Picasso designed the set and costumes, while Satie piled in using sirens, a typewriter, gunshots and a “bottleophone” (10 brown bottles were splendidly mounted at the back of the stage). Parade dates from 1917, when it was first performed by the Diaghilev company in Paris to (yet) another Parisian scandal. Programming is a delicate art and in this programme three works were natural “enders”. Fortunately, the Satie and the Stravinsky could frame Ad?s Chamber Symphony, and the second half worked well with Turnage followed by MacMillan’s intense and violent The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.

But that was before Turnage’s Hidden Love Song, an LPO, South Bank Centre, Risor Festival of Chamber Music and Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie commission, had turned up. As billed, Erik Satie’s Parade and Igor Stravinsky’s Jeu de Cartes were supposed to bookend the programme, with Thomas Ad? Mark-Anthony Turnage and James MacMillan providing the filling. How refreshing, not five days after the 250th birthday of “the master”, to have a Mozart-free zone – indeed, a Shostakovich-free zone, too. The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s quirky programme – with the welcome fingerprints of its guest conductor, Marin Alsop, all over it – comprised a couple of 20th-century ballet scores, framing a trio of British compositions by young composers. BEGGARS GROUP

Martin Mills. The youngster was to lose his father to a heart attack when he was just three years old.

Dad played guitar and harmonica with Bob Pritchard and The Echoes, the band even getting to support The Rolling Stones and John Lee Hooker. The group never quite made it, though, and Bob later opted to start a clothing fashion label, Mono.”What was really sad”, says his son, “is that my mum didn’t have much money when dad died, and she had to sell some of his amazing record collection. He had about 10,000, so there was some great stuff left over, some of it on really cool labels like Chess. I learnt a lot from listening to those records.”Is Pritchard honouring his father’s memory by following him into music? “Yeah, I think so.

Obviously, I was really young when I lost him, but I’m sure he’s had a big influence on me, even just genetically. I’ve definitely got his love of rhythm and blues, plus when I was about two, he filmed me singing ‘Yellow Submarine’ by The Beatles Stuff like that matters to me. I’ve still got the film.”After Pritchard moved to Clapham with his family, he suffered further emotional upheaval when his mother’s long-term boyfriend also died. Understandably, this loss of a second male role-model compounded his upset, but a spell at the boarding school Bedales – its famous former pupils include Minnie Driver and Daniel Day-Lewis – helped him deal with pent-up anger.”At first I felt like I didn’t fit in there”, he says. “I’d had a reasonably privileged background, but one of my friends, Alice – well, her dad owned Selfridges, and another friend’s mum was the journalist Polly Toynbee. I’d throw shouting fits in class and I nearly got expelled for arguing with a teacher who confiscated my mate’s phone In the end they taught me to respect other people, though.