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Published: 7 April, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR A RICH masala of sitar, tabla and vocal concerts and workshops has been assembled for the annual Darbar Festival of Indian music at Kings Place over the...
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Published: 7 April, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB SOMETIMES I forget how lucky we are, living on the music-rich soil of Camden, Islington and Westminster – but then a week like this comes along and I...
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FRIDAY, April 8 THE Vaccines. Electric Ballroom (Camden Town tube), 7pm, £12.50 PHAROAHE Monch + Spin Doctor. Scala (King’s Cross tube), 7pm, £20 adv KURRAN & The Wolfnotes +...
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Published: 31 March, 201 FRIDAY APRIL 1 Kings Place: Hall one – Transtango mini-fest: Transamba 7.30pm Hall two – folk night: Flamenco Express 8pm Each online £9.50 Julian Marc...
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Published: 31 March, 2011 TWO new short operas by an intriguing group of composers and writers are being performed in the short OperaShots series at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden,...
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Published: 31 March, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR KOREAN-born composer Unsuk Chin is the focus of a “total immersion” day at the Barbican on Saturday April 9, with events and concerts...
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Published: 31 March, 2011 by TONY MARSHALL LEGENDARY US tenor sax player Steve Grossman is over here again to play with Damon Brown, confirming the Camden Town trumpet player’s...
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Published: 31 March, 2011 FRIDAY, April 1 PAUL Heaton. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 7pm, £17.50 PARADISE Lost. HMV Forum (Kentish Town tube), 7pm, £22.50 TONY Black and the Collectors...
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Published: 31 March, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB THE Vaccines’ drummer Pete Robertson had plenty to say when I spoke to him last week – not least high praise for the guys behind The Flowerpot...
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Published: 31 March, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB FOLLOWERS of New York quartet Asobi Seksu will know their fourth album is already drawing favourable attention. But for those not yet familiar with the...
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Published: 31 March, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB A YEAR ago Pete Robertson was doing the rounds as a session drummer, convinced his childhood rock musician dreams had reached their pinnacle. Then along...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR THINK all baroque music sounds the same? The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will be out to change your perceptions through a five-day Baroque...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB CRAWLWATCH week No 8453. So The Lemonheads have just been added to the line-up. Remember them? If not, here’s a crash course. Frontman Evan Dando...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB FRANCIS Neve mourns the end of a relationship against stark lo-fi instrumentals while guest vocalist Lucy Randell calmly revels in the chorus to remind...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 by ALLAN LEDWARD AMONG the finest exponents of the indie organ, the celestial Charlatans dispensed with their signature sound in what would have been a natural...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB I'M like the Elton John of iTunes. I live in a fairly modest house, don’t have a car, don’t holiday in Barbados, but I spend a ridiculous...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 FRIDAY MARCH 25 Voices Now festival: Roundhouse, Main space: 7pm – Latvian Radio Choir/ BBC Singers, from £5. Studio theatre: 10.30am/ 9.30pm – The...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR GEORGIE Fame and the Blue Flames are back again at Ronnie Scott’s in Frith Street, Soho, nearly five decades after the band was launched in 1962 at...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR THE hottest tickets in town in summer 2012 won’t be for the Olympics, they’ll be for concerts conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. His recent...
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Published: 24 March, 2011 FRIDAY, March 25 JOHAN Ten Houten + Kubla Khan + Kill It Kid + Dixon Brothers. Proud Camden (Chalk Farm tube), 7.30pm, £8 before 9pm/£10 after, £5 with...
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Published: 17 March 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR GONE are the Karnak temple columns, gone the gorgeous garb of courtiers, priests and priestesses, the hieroglyphs, pyramids, elephants, Pharaoh wearing a...
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Published: 17 March 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR IT'S always difficult for amateur choirs to decide whether to roll out the hardy perennials or go for something more unusual. Choir members like to sing...
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Published: 17 March 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB NOT too long ago a group of wise old music moguls gathered in Dingwalls for the annual “pick me!” fest that is the Camden Crawl band...
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Published: 17 March 2011 WE'VE got a Camden Crawl scoop for you this week – and it’s an extra motivation to enter our competition for a pair of weekend tickets to the best festival in...
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Published: 17 March 2011 FRIDAY MARCH 18 London Handel Festival: Duo Dorado violin/ harpsichord recital, St George’s, Hanover Square, W1, 1pm, £8 Young Irish soprano Daire Halpin sings...
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