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Published: 2 August, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
St James’s Piccadilly is still putting on lunchtime recitals of classical music through the summer break – and some of them are well worth...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Jump jivers may want to pull on their dancing shoes at the Parliament Hill Bandstand on Sunday afternoon when some splendid swing music is being played...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Barely six months after an operation for thyroid cancer, Islington resident Toby Spence is picking up his singing career again.
The acclaimed tenor is...
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FRIDAY, August 3
KAV + The Lost Generation. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), £5
THE Novatones + Mellor + Shoreditch Surf Club + Little Shadows. Barfly (Chalk Farm tube), 7pm, £5...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Upstairs at the Gatehouse has edged its way on to my page this week with the tempting “How Not To Make It In Britpop” show (Aug 3-5) in which...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
The Specials’ songs have become unofficial anthems for the best of British music. And this two-CD album of the best tracks from their 2011 European...
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Big Kids – Mr Hudson and Rosie Oddie – are set to play at the Standon Calling festival this weekend
Published: 2 August, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Mr Hudson has taken the stage with some...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
LOOK up Perfume Genius on YouTube, play his albums, read the interviews in artsy magazines and the same themes emerge: serious, intense, beautiful music...
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FRIDAY JULY 27
Piano recital: Charis Cheung, St James’s Piccadilly, 1.10pm, free
Jason Singh: Human beat-boxer/vocal sculptor, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Remember Rama Lama Ding Dong? First sung and recorded by The Edsels way back in 1958, it’s being sung yet again by the American doo-wop group...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Legendary old-time folk and country musician Tom Paley is playing at the Green Note venue in Parkway, Camden Town, next Wednesday.
Now aged 83, he...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Three of the world’s most eminent jazz musicians are among latest bookings for this autumn’s 10-day London Jazz Festival likely to involve...
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FRIDAY, July 27
BILLY Vincent + Second Shepherds. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 9.30pm, £5
THE B of the Bang. The Wheelbarrow (Mornington Crescent tube), 9pm, free
DEBORAH Bond. Jazz Cafe...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Congratulations to The Fourfits on their success in the Live and Unsigned final at the 02 Arena. The four Camden sisters so impressed the discerning...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
My favourite fact about Childish Gambino – if true – is that he got his name through the Wu Tang Name Generator. Look it up online. Gambino,...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
THE PHARCYDE at Koko
by DAMIAN O'LOUGHLIN
WALKING into The Pharcyde at Koko slightly late (due to technical problems and an ill-timed quest to get into The Streets...
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FRIDAY JULY 20
Wigmore Hall 7pm, piano recital: HJ Lim from £12 10pm, piano recital: Gabriela Montera £12/ cons £10
Collectres: all-female arts collective perform experimental...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
The London debut of Korean piano virtuoso HJ Lim takes place at the Wigmore Hall tomorrow evening (Friday).
She’s something of a phenomenon having...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
Cape Town Opera’s production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is well worth catching at the London Coliseum before its run ends on Saturday.
It’s got...
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Lear’s ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ drawing
Published: 19 July, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
It’s one of the great “Why?”
questions of literature.
Why did the Owl and...
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FRIDAY, July 20
CAAN. The Wheelbarrow (Mornington Crescent tube), 9pm, free
ALONESTAR + Chico Perrico, Nicole Jane, Ryan Taylor, Mishael Lazarus. Roundhouse (Chalk Farm tube), 7pm, £12.50-...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Springsteen and McCartney, a first, a glorious moment the Boss has waited 50 years to create.
And what do we do?
We disrespect them by pulling the plug...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Here’s a little teaser of what we’ve been missing – The Other Tribe’s electro-pop single Skirts is a reminder of the summer we...
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Bruce ‘The Boss’ Springsteen performing at Hard Rock Calling
Published: 19 July, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB and TRISTAN HARPER
WHAT Hard Rock Calling does best is bring along consistently...
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Bret Keen
Published: 12 July, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
saxophonist/ composer Bret Keen is playing at Lauderdale House, Highgate next Thursday in the last gig of the Jazz in the House summer...