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Published: 13 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THERE'S something for everyone in the abundance of interesting concerts and gigs over the next week. Tomorrow (Friday) at the Hinde Street Methodist...
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Published: 13 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
EXPECTATIONS are building up greatly in advance of next week’s premiere of English National Opera’s new production of Puccini’s...
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PUBLISHED: 13 May 2010
by HANNAH JENNINGS-PARRY
FRIDAY, MAY 14
PAMA INTERNATIONAL. Jazz Café (Camden Town Tube), 7pm, £12.50 adv
ALABAMA 3 + David Ford. HMV Forum (Kentish Town Tube),...
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Published: 13 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
FRIDAY MAY 14
Swing/mainstream: Phil Brown Swingtet, Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus, Soho, 020 8647 2114, 12.30pm, £5
Recital: international pianist...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
CASIO KIDS, then KATY B - JAZZ CAFE
A welcome change of pace, light in sound, happy electro, they attracted huge queues and quite rightly so. The kind of...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by ELLA DAWSON and ALLAN STAFFORD
CALVIN HARRIS - ROUNDHOUSE (Sat)
The charming Scot cheered up a rain-drenched audience with a strong, hour-long set of crowd-pleasers. Clearly...
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Published: 6 May 2010
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS - KOKO - (Sunday)
If a 1970s prog-rock band were demonically possessed by the spirit of Ashes to Ashes-era David Bowie, it would sound something like...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
PLAN B – ROUNDHOUSE
Plan B rocked the camp bouncer look. Switching from rudeboy rapper to shiny suited doorman, to cheesy house dancer to Marvin Gaye-...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP - RED BULL OUTDOOR STAGE
Only other band we saw twice. They command a loyal following, many thousands on twitter and many...
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Published: 6 May 2010
Friday, May 7
TRAIN. 02 Academy Islington (Angel Tube) 7pm, sold out.
Saturday, May 8
GABBY Young and Other Animals. Jazz Cafe (Camden Town Tube) 7pm, £10adv
THE Bluetones...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
AS Pete Doherty swayed in a Camden High Street alleyway and Amy Winehouse pulled pints in the Dublin Castle, it was difficult to picture the two in their...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
RIVERS of black eyeliner streamed down Camden High Street as buckets of torrential rain threatened to wash away thousands of Camden Crawlers this weekend....
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Published: 6 May 2010
FRIDAY MAY 7
Contemporary French jazz, Kings Place, 90 York Way, King’s Cross, 020 7520 1490, 7.30pm, £9.50 online saver-seat, www.kingsplace.co.uk (also Saturday)...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THE music festival season is upon us with a vengeance. As well as the big name festivals, though, there are some fantastic gems to be found among...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
EVEN as the audience took their seats for the performance, the recorded wail of a distant fire-engine filled the concert hall at the Kings Place arts centre...
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Published: 6 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THERE will be three opportunities for the army of Natalie Clein fans to hear the exciting Muswell Hill cellist playing over the next few weeks.
On Sunday she...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by MATHIEU MILBOURNE
FRIDAY, APRIL 30
Kevin Johansen & Liniers, Jazz Café (Camden Town Tube) 7pm, £15
Something Simple, Fur, Junk Funk Collective, Mrs...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
AFTER falling for Hurts’ atmospheric early tracks Wonderful Life and Blood, Tears and Gold, this switch to such an uptempo dance track for their...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
• SNOW, debt, the ash cloud and moody electronic music. All these are synonymous with Iceland, and next month (May 26/27) the “world’s...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
BOHEMIAN starlets Fearless Vampire Killers featured here some weeks ago. Now we’ve roped in their creative minds to help with our Camden Crawl...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
LIAM Fray’s got a plan. He’s only minutes away from playing Q The Music Club Live at Hard Rock Cafe London with his band The Courteeners, but...
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Published: 29 April 2010
FRIDAY APRIL 30
EXPERIMENT! mini-fest: London Sinfonietta explores experimentalist composers, Kings Place, York Way, King’s Cross, 020 7520 1490, 7.30pm, from...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
AFTER the London Marathon, we have Erik Satie’s piano marathon. The French composer’s extraordinary, notorious work Vexations is to be played...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by SARAH DAWES
BRAHM'S German Requiem is unusual because the composer chose not to use the words of the traditional Latin requiem full of the terrors of the Last Judgement...
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Published: 29 April 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
A CELEBRITY gala concert to raise funds for the “affordable” Conway Hall Sunday Concerts is to be held on Sunday May 9 at the hall in Red Lion...
