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Twitter screening of SnowtownWednesday, 21 March 2012Snowtown, the intense Australian dramatisation of the story of suburban serial killer John Bunting, is released on DVD this week. To coincide, the film’s director Justin Kurzel is in London undertaking what’s described as a “tweet-a-long screening”... Read more... |
Irek Mukhamedov dances again in LondonTuesday, 20 March 2012Former Royal Ballet leading star and Bolshoi hero Irek Mukhamedov is coming out of retirement to perform in Peter Schaufuss's Tchaikovsky Trilogy at the London Coliseum 23-28 July. He will be playing the roles of Rothbart in Swan Lake, the Queen’s... Read more... |
Alison Steadman in Michael Frayn comedyMonday, 19 March 2012Alison Steadman stars in the Rose Theatre, Kingston's new production of Michael Frayn's 1993 comedy Here 19 April-12 May. Zawe Ashton (from Channel 4's Fresh Meat) and Alex Beckett (of BBC Four's Olympics comedy Twenty Twelve) play a young couple... Read more... |
ENB star launches new ballet companyMonday, 19 March 2012English National Ballet's virtuoso Cuban star Yat-Sen Chang is launching a new company to train young dancers in his directorial debut. Called Espinosa Dance Project, the company aims to school young dancers in three-month blocks with a performance... Read more... |
South Asian festival at SouthbankMonday, 19 March 2012Southbank Centre’s third annual Alchemy festival returns 12-22 April with a mix of music, dance, literature, film, fashion and design reflecting the economic and cultural landscape of the Indian subcontinent. The centre's Thames-side venues and... Read more... |
Finnish oddball circus tours in JuneMonday, 19 March 2012Finland’s Race Horse Company returns to the UK with a circus spectacular Petit Mal, a success on its first visit here two years ago. The tour starts at Stratford Circus, London on 1 & 2 June, then visits Oxford's Playhouse and Poole Lighthouse,... Read more... |
Justin Broadrick previews JK Flesh albumMonday, 19 March 2012The veteran noise artist Justin Broadrick - whose previous projects include Godflesh, Head of David, Napalm Death, Jesu, Greymachine, Palesketcher and Techno Animal, the latter in collaboration with Kevin Martin - has unveiled the new track "... Read more... |
Cockney Rejects film comingMonday, 19 March 2012The team behind Oil City Confidential, Julien Temple's award-winning documentary about Dr Feelgood, has made East End Babylon, the story of London punks The Cockney Rejects. Directed by Richard England, who exec-produced Oil City Confidential, the... Read more... |
50 years of the Rolling StonesSunday, 18 March 2012Activities surrounding the Golden Jubilee of the Rolling Stones will include an officially sanctioned new book of "photographs and ephemera", The Rolling Stones: 50, to be published by Thames & Hudson on 12 July 2012. That date is the 50th... Read more... |
Complete Humphrey Jennings on DVDSaturday, 17 March 2012The British Film Institute is to issue the second of in its three-volume series of the complete films of the documentarist Humphrey Jennings on 23 April. This very British of film makers is best known for Fires Were Started, his only full-length... Read more... |
The Searchers: Box Set AnnouncedFriday, 16 March 2012Influential Merseybeat band The Searchers are being given the box set treatment for the first time. Their jangly guitar and folk harmonies were a major component of The Byrds’s sound. Sweets, Spice, Sugar, Pins and Needles: A Compendium of Harmony... Read more... |
BluesFest 2012 announces stellar line-upFriday, 16 March 2012After last year's inaugural Festival, BluesFest 2011 returns to the UK this summer for a 10 day celebration of incredible music. The 2012 festival will increase in size and scale with BluesFest Manchester introduced to complement its southern... Read more... |
