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The Who play Quadrophenia for Teenage Cancer TrustFriday, 05 February 2010
Tickets go on sale today for this year's Teenage Cancer Trust benefit concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in March. The Who's Roger Daltrey, a patron of the Trust, has been the driving force behind the concerts since they began in 2000. Having failed... Read more... |
Gorillaz go ThunderbirdsThursday, 04 February 2010The animated band Gorillaz have revealed their new HQ in the South Pacific - a floating island atop a pile of trash at Point Nemo, the furthest place, they inform us, from land on Earth. It's all very, very Tracey Island from Thunderbirds. See the... Read more... |
So farewell to the FoundryThursday, 04 February 2010
My abiding memory of The Foundry is being held aloft by my throat by the landlord, Falklands veteran and notorious band manager Alan "Gimpo" Goodrick, as he accused me of stealing a Shirley Bassey album. I had been DJing for a book reading by Mark "... Read more... |
Jewish Book WeekThursday, 04 February 2010It's not every literary festival which unites around a single idea. Jewish Book Week is an exception. Not that every one of the 130 speakers who appear on the podium at the Royal National Hotel between 27 February and 7 March will necessarily be... Read more... |
Poles 'ape-shit' over Chopin filmThursday, 04 February 2010According to award-winning film-maker Tony Palmer, the London Polish Daily newspaper has gone "ape-shit" over the re-release of his dramatised Chopin film, The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka, accusing it of maligning the good name of Chopin/Poland/... Read more... |
Raspberry ripples and Oscar odditiesThursday, 04 February 2010Although the UK Film Council lost no time in firing out the usual self-congratulatory press release, it has been a thin year for British nominees at this year's Oscars. And, as Kim Newman, my colleague from the London Film Critics' Circle, points... Read more... |
Original Cultures London announcedThursday, 04 February 2010Original Cultures is an artistic collective with bases in the UK, Italy and Japan, dedicated to audiovisual collaborations inspired by street art, graffiti, hip hop and electronic music. It is staging its first London event over the course of a week... Read more... |
Jerusalem: next stop Broadway - but when?Wednesday, 03 February 2010Jerusalem was bound for Broadway from virtually the moment the raves poured in for Jez Butterworth's career-best play and leading man Mark Rylance's career-defining star performance. So why isn't Ian Rickson's glorious production ... Read more... |
V&A concedes a few final extra viewing daysWednesday, 03 February 2010The V&A has made a small concession to the musical outcry over its plan to substitute musical instruments with fashion galleries - an outcry you read first on theartsdesk. It is opening the instruments gallery for extra days before the closure... Read more... |
Guardian critic gets class consciousWednesday, 03 February 2010The Guardian's theatre blog has been buzzing with responses to critic Lyn Gardner's post asking why so many of the great and the good in the theatre world are Oxbridge grads? When I last looked, there were more than 120 responses to what at first... Read more... |
Jim Moray - new album free through SonglinesWednesday, 03 February 2010On April 30 2010 award-winning folk artist Jim Moray will pre-release his new album exclusively through the June issue of Songlines magazine.Never a musician to stick to the prescribed routes, Moray’s world-exclusive partnership with Songlines... Read more... |
Zweig classic back on screenWednesday, 03 February 2010The huge upsurge in interest in the Austrian author Stefan Zweig continues at the BFI Southbank when Letter from an Unknown Woman is revived next week. Shot by Max Ophüls in 1948, it beautifully captures the spirit of Zweig’s post-Hapsburg, pre-... Read more... |
