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Published: 19 August, 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
SOMERSET House is joining the opera fashionistas this weekend, screening three Glyndebourne Opera productions over three days. There’s no fixed...
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Published: 19 August, 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THE last cream tea concert of the season at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Monday will involve a delightful cello recital given by Rowena Calvert, one of...
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Published: 19 August, 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
IF ever there was a night for curling up in pyjamas and pretending the world doesn’t exist, it was Saturday evening.
Kenwood House was enveloped in...
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Published: 19 August, 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
EVEN after planting a bunch of ethical gremlin traps, one has still managed to evade us. The wonderful Record of the Week last week was by GABBY Young...
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Published: 19 August 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
A BIT of plinky synth, ailing indie boy vocals and some beats here and there – this seems to be the formula for what the cool kids are listening to...
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Published: 19 August, 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
IT looks like the dream student living room – couches and lamps, arcade machines with Space Invaders, table football, and a bar on one wall.
But...
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Published: 19 August, 2010
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20
Outdoor opera screening: Billy Budd, Somerset House, Strand, WC2. 0844 847 22317, 7.15pm, from £7.50
Swinging emotional tenor saxist:...
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Published: 19 August, 2010
FRIDAY, August 20
SAINT Jude + Casino + Tracie Hunter Band + Horsemen Shakes and the Draymen. Scala (King’s Cross Tube), 7pm, £10 adv
JOANA and the Wolf +...
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13
Gripping opera: Ben Britten’s Rape of Lucretia. Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola St, E8. 020 7503 1646 (also Saturday)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14
Bruno d’Ambra Trio. Palm Court, The...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
AN opera about dementia? Not opera buffa, that’s for sure. But new work The Lion’s Face by Elena Langer does succeed in shining a...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
NOW that he’s retired as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, saxophonist Art Themen is enjoying his seventies playing as much jazz as possible.
That...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
MURDER, incest, rape, love and fidelity – it’s all in the fourth Grimeborn Festival of opera and music that’s now in full swing at the...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
• P!NK had two on her Carnival tour, while a troupe of them followed Gwen Stefani’s every step, before she transformed them into a range of...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
NOW that Florence has gone mainstream, there’s a gap in the market for a quirky redhead with a powerhouse voice. Gabby Young’s an imaginative...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
YOU know her face (or maybe not, if you’re over 18). She’s the one who turned from the innocent little J to the bad girl queen of mean in...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13
GRAMMATICS + With That Knife + Mistakes in Animation. The Lexington (Angel Tube), 8pm, £5
MAT Horne (DJ Set). The Old Queen’s Head...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
I KNOW Taylor Momsen’s moody teenage act fronting The Pretty Reckless is a bit much for some, but I’m hoping to judge for myself when she...
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Published: 05 August 2010
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
British Jazz Fest: Laurence Cottle Big Band/Jessica Lauren Four. Ronnie Scott’s. 6pm, from £20
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7
Swinging jazz: John Watson...
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Published: 05 August 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THE British Jazz Festival is moving into its second week at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho with some fine musicians playing at the club.
Appearing...
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Published: 05 August 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
CLASSICAL music is being played at the Kenwood Picnic Concerts this Saturday evening.
Forty years ago, when I was a regular Kenwood concert-goer, the...
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Published: 05 August 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
FOR opera singer Toby Spence – one of the world’s leading lyric tenors – it will be but a short trip from his home in Islington to the...
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Published: 05 August 2010
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
BEATBULLYS + DJ Mikey. Four farewell party. Koko (Mornington Crescent Tube), 9.30pm, £5
PEOPLE in Planes + Undivided + IKO. Relentless Garage (...
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Published: 05 August 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
I PITY the DJ who played at my friend’s wedding last weekend. He had carefully planned out every single track. But a wedding DJ can never please...
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Published: 05 August 2010
by STEVE BARNETT
EVEN at a free music festival, the golden rule is to entertain the audience. Some bands do it by engaging the crowds straight away with banter, but when...
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Published: 05 August 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
SEARCH for French house DJ Kavinsky online and you’ll find thousands of results – but interviews with the elusive artist are rare.
Not that...
