Last night a whirlwind of unhinged Canadian folk-pop swept the hot, cramped room at the back of Hoxton Bar and Kitchen. Despite being at one of London’s least endearing small venues, front-man Joel Gibb was apparently glad to have UK provincial dates behind him, and …
We’re more than a little excited to hear that Toronto’s finest indie export The Hidden Cameras are playing at St. Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch on Thursday, 18th March. As practitioners of what front-man Joel Gibb once called as “gay church folk music” it seems very apt …
Trot over to the charmingly fag-stained Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on Thursday 11th February for the next exciting edition of ‘Ward & White’s Karaoke Circus’. The setup is simple: various professionally funny folk (and a few unintentionally funny members of the public) get up …
Until the end of January there’s still time to treat yourself to a feast of classic Cole Porter tunes including ‘Let’s Misbehave’ and ‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?’ Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate in their impressive revival of High Society. The musical started out …
If there is one thing you don’t expect from a Luke Haines gig, it’s jokes. Last night’s sold out gig at The Luminaire in Kilburn found old misery-guts in an unexpectedly jovial mood playing songs from his splendidly caustic new album ’21st Century Man’. The …
If like us you’ve been enjoying the recent resurgence of all things disco, you’ll be foaming with excitement at the line-up for the second instalment of Norwegian nu-disco pioneer Prins Thomas’s bi-monthly club residency Ekstravaganza. Like a kindly, bearded ice-cream vendor, on 28th November Thomas …
As anyone who has read his autobiography ‘Bad Vibes’ will know, Luke Haines is definitely one to harbour a grudge. In his revisionist account of the Britpop era, the former Auteurs front-man lays into everyone from Chris Evans to Justine Frischmann with equal ferocity. So …
Nina Persson looks happier now. Being lead singer with Sweden’s most successful pop export since ABBA® was evidently getting her down, and although the evaporation of mainstream interest in The Cardigans coincided with them putting out increasingly amazing albums, it was clear she wanted out. …
Trafalgar Studios’ new production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? puts the audience right in the middle of the action. In a studio space so intimate that anyone on front row would have to say “excuse me” to the actors in order to go to …
There is clearly some contemporary relevance to Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night. Indeed the pull quotes include one from an overexcited Bloomberg’s critic who takes this production (at the Arts Theatre, until 11 April) as a timely comment on the financial crisis (“a remarkable portent of …
