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Published: 3 June 2010
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
DELAYS. Monto Water Rats (King’s Cross Tube) 7pm, £12.50
FUTURE Of The Left + Ice Sea Dead People + Hold Your Horse Is. The Lexington (King’s...
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Published: 3 June 2010
FRIDAY JUNE 4
Alberto Popolla/Noel Taylor Group, Ray’s Jazz, Foyles Café, 020 7437 5660, 113 Charing Cross Road, WC2, 6pm, free
Original compositions: Yazz...
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Published: 27 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
I HOLD my hands up. I only bothered to listen to this because I like the band name – but I’m glad I did. Gypsy and the Cat’s upcoming...
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Published: 27 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
WHAT'S happening to our rock idols? They’re getting respectable in their old age. My spies spotted an early morning jogger legging it through Hampstead...
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Published: 27 May 2010
by ALLAN LEDWARD
THIS wasn’t the chemical reaction the returning Brothers were hoping for.
The Roundhouse’s neighbours would have been expecting a few disturbances...
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Published: 27 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
THERE'S the one who can sprint really fast, the playboy, and the man with the irresistible voice.
Angha sound more like a slick team of crimefighters than...
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Published: 27 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
TOP-knotch musicians will be playing against the backdrop of classic silent films over the next two days at Kings Place in King’s Cross.
The...
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Published: 27 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
GOSPEL Oak bassist Cai Marle-Garcia is to run a weekly jazz jam session every Sunday afternoon at Map Café, the bijou jazz haunt in Grafton Road,...
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Published: 27 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
IT'S the outstanding orchestral playing that crowns it. English National Opera’s new Tosca is turned into a stunning production by terrific playing...
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Published: 27 May 2010
FRIDAY, May 28
BOOKER T. Jazz Cafe (Camden Town Tube) 7pm, £25 adv
THE Rocket Summer + special guests. Electric Ballroom (Camden Town Tube) 6.45pm, £12.50
BABY...
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Published: 27 May 2010
FRIDAY MAY 28
Spring voices: rising singing stars accompanied by Simon Lepper, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free
Red...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
THE festival season is upon us. And what outdoor bash would be complete without the latest Faithless anthem. Sadly, their first single in four years is not...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
EVER walked by Stables Market and thought: “I want to capture that sound forever?” Well, the guys who own the market have roped in ex-Sugababe...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
AS if Camden didn’t have enough “places to be”, Blues Kitchen is stepping up with a bill of extravagant, underground nights. Take the bank...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by DAN CARRIER
IT was called US Patent Number 1,956,350 – and it changed the sound of soul music forever.
That was the code given to Lauren Hammond when he turned up with...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THERE are so many fine gigs coming up that jazz enthusiasts will have some difficulty in making their selection. For instance, which to choose this evening...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
IT was the hunt for a “plus one” that alerted me to the potential difficulties faced by the 02 Arena’s first-ever opera – Bizet...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
LIFE in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Second World War is to be remembered in a remarkable weekend programme of concerts, talks,...
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Published: 20 May 2010
by HANNAH JENNINGS-PARRY
FRIDAY, MAY 21
MIKE Snow + special guests. HMV Forum (Kentish Town Tube) 7pm, £14.50
BILLY Childish & the musicians of the British Empire....
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Published: 20 May 2010
FRIDAY MAY 21
Chopin cello pieces: Robin Michael, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free
Jazz voice & piano mini-fest: Lea...
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Published: 13 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
A NEW monthly jazz supper venue is to make its debut later this month at the Radisson Edwardian hotel in Bloomsbury and the supper/club format turn into a...
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Published: 13 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
MUSICIANS love their causes don’t they? And when it comes to politics, some of our most outspoken ones just have to interfere. Yet I can’t help...
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Published: 13 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
THEY'VE not released an album yet but this Dublin five-piece could just have struck the right chord with this single. From the first note it builds into a...
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Published: 13 May 2010
by HANNAH JENNINGS-PARRY
CHEMICAL Brothers fans with tickets to the band’s four-night Roundhouse residency will be the first to catch a live glimpse of their new...
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Published: 13 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
TIME was, Ozzy Osbourne was primarily associated with Black Sabbath, alter-ego The Prince of Darkness and his on and offstage antics.
But in these days of...