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Published: 29 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Irish fiddler Karen Ryan is launching her first album The Coast Road at The Forge, Camden Town, on Saturday evening.
The launch venue is appropriate as...
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Published: 29 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Bizet’s Carmen, possibly the world’s most popular opera, is being relocated from Seville in the early 19th century to the north London of...
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FRIDAY, March 30
ROSANNE Cash. Union Chapel (Highbury & Islington tube), 7pm, £17.50 adv
THE Twang. 02 Academy Islington (Angel tube), 6.30pm, £15
SAFE Hands. The Wheelbarrow (...
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Published: 29 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
A distinctly retro column this week but not necessarily in the vintage way. Every year we focus on Wireless and Hard Rock Calling taking over Hyde Park,...
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Published: 29 March, 2012
by ROISN GADELRAB
In the spirit of reminiscence in this week’s column, here’s a duo I hadn’t expected to see reform.
Brandy & Monica last...
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Published: 29 March, 2012
by JAMES CHURCH
PAUL Weller chose the Roundhouse for a five-night residency to showcase his new album Sonik Kicks – an experimental piece of work with a dizzying...
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Published: 29 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
WHEN the Live and Unsigned music talent competition came to Camden earlier this year, such was the appeal that more than 800 musicians turned up to try...
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FRIDAY MARCH 23
Kings Place
Hall one: Imogen Cooper plays Schubert, 7.30pm
Hall two: Norway’s top Hardanger fiddle player Annbjorg Lien, 8pm
each online £9.50
Cellist/composer: Peter...
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Published: 22 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Admirers of highly-regarded composer Hugh Wood, a long-time Kentish Town resident, will be turning out in force tomorrow (Friday) to hear the London...
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Published: 22 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Fifty years ago, Berlioz’s magnificent Grande Messe des Morts was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Colin Davis at...
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Published: 22 March, 2012
by SARAH DAWES
The Royal Free Music Society and the Hampstead Sinfonietta did themselves proud under Benjamin Wolf’s baton at St Mark’s Church, Primrose Hill,...
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FRIDAY March 23
POP Will Eat Itself. Electric Ballroom (Camden Town tube), 6.30pm, £18
THE Shins. HMV Forum (Kentish Town tube), 7pm, sold out
SATURDAY March 24
FINLEY Quaye. Jazz...
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Published: 22 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
NOVEL GIG OF THE WEEK: Sunderland band The Futureheads are among the line-up for this year’s Camden Crawl.
But before they play Camden’s...
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Published: 22 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
A fine piece of work from resident genius Graham Coxon whose 8th solo album A + E is out on April 2.
Playing all instruments himself, Coxon has created...
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Published: 22 March, 2012
by Jonathan Simpson
London’s finest Irish talent celebrated St Patrick’s Day on Saturday with an eclectic mix of singers and new bands such as The Hot Sprockets...
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Published: 22 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
I OWE Paul Simon. During those miserable teenage months cramming for school exams, he and Art Garfunkel were the sunshine B-side antidote to Leonard...
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Published: 15 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Caan Capan is deeply entangled in the branches of Camden’s musical family tree.
The former member of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool grew up in Tufnell...
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FRIDAY MARCH 16
Kings Place
Hall one: Brahms & Schumann/The Sixteen, 7.30pm
Hall two: folk night Martin Cathy, 8pm
each £9.50 online
Gypsy jazz/ska/Latin: Charlotte Glasson, National...
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Published: 15 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Nu-jazz multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson and her band are playing the early evening free gig at the National Portrait Gallery tomorrow (Friday)....
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Published: 15 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Three of north London’s finest choirs – North Camden Choir, Camden Choir and Camden Chamber Choir – are in action on Saturday evening...
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Published: 15 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
The excellent London Handel Festival is getting under way with a four-week programme of recitals, concerts and opera performances put together by...
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FRIDAY, March 16
INSPIRAL Carpets. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 7pm, £19.50
THE Cuban Brothers full live band show. Jazz Cafe (Camden Town tube), 7pm, £13.50 adv
THE Presidents of...
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Published: 15 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
We were there that memorable Camden Crawl night in 2006 when Supergrass played The Dublin Castle.
I’ll only ever remember Caught By The Fuzz...
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Published: 15 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
In the spirit of this generation of young male singers with vulnerable vibrato vocals (see Bombay Bicycle Club/Mumford & Sons), let us introduce...
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Published: 15 March, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
Singer Syleena Johnson may not be immediately familiar these days by name, but to anyone who was into R’n’B in the mid-2000s, her voice...