The Independent London Newspaper
4th February 2012
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Burlesque opera comes to Highgate late next week when the Merry Opera Company’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata opens at fringe music...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Anyone with even the vaguest knowledge of Camden music will be well aware of Tribes. They once stopped traffic by playing a rooftop on the High Street...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR David McVicar’s 2008 English National Opera production of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier is back at the Coliseum providing a glorious...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR LEGENDARY jazz trumpeter/composer Kenny Wheeler (pictured) has given his archive of original music to the Royal Academy of Music so that it can be...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR The Nash Ensemble is presenting a “Brahms plus” programme each Thursday lunchtime this month at LSO St Luke’s in Old Street. Next...
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 Mahler in Miniature: Academy Chamber Ensemble conducted by Trevor Pinnock, Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, NW1, 020 7873 7373, 1.05pm, free Piano...
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FRIDAY, February 3 BELLERUCHE + Rodney P + Anchorsong Jazz Cafe (Camden Town tube), 7pm, £10 THIS Boy Wonders. 02 Academy Islington (Angel tube), 6.30pm, £7 PLANES + L’TNT DJs +...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB The next few days are MASSIVE – there’s so much live music around I could fill a whole newspaper with listings. In the absence of such...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 A reasonable effort from Spector, the kind of song played in indie clubs for a few months, everyone will jump up and down to the chorus and it may just then fade into...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Leading alto saxophonist Christian Brewer is to head a regular monthly workshop on Sunday afternoons at Map Café, Kentish Town, barely a stone...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB So Death in Vegas are opening the Camden Crawl at Koko, Akala’s Hip Hop Shakespeare Co are signed up and the daytime programme revealed. Clear...
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FRIDAY, January 27 LEE Scratch Perry (also Saturday). Jazz Cafe (Camden Town tube), 7pm, £20 adv JUBILEE ft Billy Vincent + Eyes on Film. Barfly (Chalk Farm tube), 7.30pm, £5 adv...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB It didn’t take long to realise this had to be ROTW. Technically brilliant, complex, intelligent and every bit the pocket symphony Clock Opera...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Talib Kweli had one name on his lips when he spoke to Grooves last year – Jean Grae. Dubbed by Talib as “one of the last true MCs”...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB WHEN former 3 Colours Red guitarist Chris McCormack decided to do something special for his brother Danny’s 40th, he inadvertently sparked a...
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FRIDAY JANUARY 27 Trumpeter Simon Desbruslais, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free Jazz: Soweto Kinch & guests, Kings Place, 8pm, online £...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR The first performance of an Anglo/American country/folk duo involving Kathryn Roberts and Caroline Herring is taking place at Cecil Sharp House on...
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FRIDAY, January 20 LEDISI, Scala (King’s Cross tube), 7.30pm, £18.50 adv MAMA’S Gun, Jazz Cafe (Camden Town tube), 7pm, £10 adv SATURDAY, January 21 GILLES...
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Published: 19 Jamuary, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB After spending many nights at Islington Town Hall covering council meetings it’s difficult to imagine it as a destination venue. However, the...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB The Muppets have been reworking classics (see bizarro barbershop version of Smells Like Teen Spirit and a clucked cover of Forget You), and team...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB It’s often said that the greatest moments of creativity arise out of hard times. And the members of hip-hop group Dekay & the D’Mans...
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FRIDAY JANUARY 20 Chamber pop: Catherine AD, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free SATURDAY JANUARY 21 Don Giovanni: revival of Francesca Zambello...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR The Forge venue in Delancey Street, Camden Town, has fast earned a reputation for its stylish surrounds and fantastic acoustics and a programming...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by TOM FOOT A celebration of sibling harmony will be on show above the Magdala Pub in South End Green next month. Author Edmund Bealby-Wright is launching his award-...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by SARAH DAWES I wonder if today’s children are told about Joseph Haydn, the naughty choirboy, who cut off the pigtail of the boy in front of him at choir...
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