The Masonic Lodge At Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, May 27
THE final night of Joanna Newsom’s seven-date stand at Hollywood Forever Cemetery brings out an impressively starry guest list. John C Reilly, Beck and Courtney Barnett all mingle by the merch stand, but that’s really nothing: Cecil B DeMille, Judy Garland and Johnny Ramone are still outside.
This storied graveyard’s Masonic Lodge, built in 1927, provides a fittingly theatrical setting for Newsom’s rebirth, four years on from her last headline shows. We enter past cages where iridescent peacocks, free to roam the grounds during the day, dote over baby chicks. Inside, antique chandeliers illuminate the restored wooden
