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Pictured Above: Labour’s Neil Kinnock in 1992
Published: 19 April, 2012
by DAN CARRIER
They had chosen – according to Tory MP Alan B’stard, aka the actor Rik Mayall – for a...
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FRIDAY APRIL 20
Leah Kardos, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free
Opera Shots: new operas by Graham Fitkin & Neil Hannon, Linbury Theatre, Royal...
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Published: 19 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Another of John Landor’s splendid Mini-Maestro Family Concerts is being performed by the London Musical Arts Orchestra at St Martin-in-the-Fields...
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Published: 19 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from the Netherlands is playing three concerts at the Barbican over the next four weeks, each with a different...
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Pictured: A scene from Carmen at the King's Head Theatre
Published: 19 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Relocating the action to north London worked well in the OperaUpClose productions of...
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FRIDAY, April 20
GAZ Coombes + Veins. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 9.30pm, £5
HOWLIN’ Circus + Poppy and the Opiates + Bareknuckle Sisters + Sophie Blackburn. The Good Ship (Kilburn...
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Published: 19 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
BRAZIL'S annual Back2Black Festival is decamping to London for the first time as part of the London 2012 Festival. Featuring Macy Gray and Roots...
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Published: 19 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Sometimes you just need a little calm to descend and quell the surrounding chaos.
From the very first note Lianne La Havas’s deceptively...
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Clock Opera: Guy Connelly, Andy West, Dan Armstrong and Che Albrighton
Published: 19 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
"SOMETIMES with our music you end up talking about the process a lot....
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FRIDAY APRIL 13
Soprano recital: Eleanor Briggs, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1pm, free
Folk songs of love and the sea: Firefly, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055,...
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Published: 12 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
The 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster is being marked at the Barbican on Sunday evening by a performance of The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin...
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Pictured is Wolfgang Rihm
Published: 12 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
NEXT week, English National Opera is launching its first co-production with Hampstead Theatre, staging the UK premiere of...
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FRIDAY, April 13
BEN E King. Jazz Cafe (Camden Town tube), 7pm, £30 adv
CHARLI XCX + BIGKid. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 9.30pm, £5
D:REAM + Nintendisco + BTTF DJs. The Garage (...
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Published: 12 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
It’s here – the help we’ve been waiting for – the Camden Crawl album 2012 #2 is now available free to download.
The compilation...
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Published: 12 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Rita Ora looks like a megastar and has the voice to back it up.
With shades of Gwen Stefani and the stage presence of Rihanna (a big claim but one I...
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Pictured Above: Rihanna
Published: 12 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
This year’s Wireless Festival will exhaust even the most well-trained raver with big hits coming from all angles from a...
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Published: 5 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
As kids we took so much meaning from the movie Stand By Me with wise young River Phoenix, mouthy Corey Feldman, spindly Will Wheaton, and puppy-fat-...
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FRIDAY, April 6
BLEECH + Man Without Country. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 9.30pm, £5
VAGABONDZ ft Prince Fatty Soundsystem + King Cannibal & Special Guest MC + Blak Twang + London...
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Published: 5 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
There’s something potentially epic about Theme Park’s single Two Hours.
With a promising intro, which builds in the same way as The Airborne...
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Published: 5 April, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
TWENTY-TWELVE is looking good for Graham Coxon.
His eighth solo album has been released to an overwhelmingly positive reception and he’s due to...
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Published: 5 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
The Tempest flute trio has been taking the flute world by storm in recent years, playing all sorts of music ranging from traditional classical, early and...
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FRIDAY APRIL 6
Easter jazz-fest: singers Deborah Brown + Guilleremo Rozenthuler, Kings Place, 8pm, online £9.50
Mosaic Chamber Choir, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2,...
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Published: 5 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Jazz diva extraordinaire Deborah Brown is opening the Global Music Foundation’s Easter Jazz Festival tomorrow (Friday), at the Kings Place arts...
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Published: 5 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
He’d worked with Miles Davis and Bud Powell before he turned 20.
And, with Coleman Hawkins as his idol and Thelonious Monk as his mentor, Theodore...
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FRIDAY MARCH 30
Kings Place: Hall one: New Zealand String Quartet, 7.30pm; Hall two: Melancholic singer/ songwriter Jack Cheshire, each £9.50 online
Guitar recital: Carl Herring, National...