Concerts

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Photo / Joep R. Had he lived till the present era, Elvis Presley would’ve turned 75 in January of this year. To celebrate the anniversary, Radio 2 is to host Elvis Forever, a concert in celebration of Presley’s music, in Hyde Park this September. Chris …

For locals who just can’t get enough of the former King of Pop, some good news just broke. According to AP, the huge tribute concert planned for Vienna in a few days has been cancelled due to logistical problems and shifted to London next summer. …

Forget Waterloo. The Swedish fourpiece could be making a spectacular comeback a few miles downriver, at the O2. (Good God, we’re slowly turning into a celebrity blog. Please shoot us. Shoot us now.) The Sun reckon that AEG Live, the company who booked Jacko up …

The show will go on, despite the demise of the main attraction. That’s the gist of a report over on MSNBC, which suggests we’ll see a ‘replica’ of the concerts planned for the O2 taking place in September. The cast and crew of the canceled …

Jazz Plus lunchtime music concerts take place in Victoria Embankment Gardens Do you like your jazz contemporary, al fresco, and free? Tired spending your lunchbreaks dodging noxious colleagues in Pret or standing in the Post Office queue? Then head to Victoria Embankment Gardens for some …

Image of The Foundling Museum from lizsmith’s photostream under CC license Do you work near Brunswick Square? Bored of surfing the internet in your lunchbreaks while dropping sandwich crumbs into your keyboard? Then why not get out and about in that precious hour between morning …

Moonwalk on this Don’t stop till you get enough, indeed. For the fimo-featured King of Pop will play a further 35 shows at the O2, on top of the ten already announced. The run will extend well into 2010 and practically give Jacko squatter’s rights …

Full disclosure: we weren’t always the immensely sophisticated and self-possessed adults who blog before you today. Once, some decades ago, we too had mouths full of metal; wore white Keds and hot pink socks; adorned our stone-washed denim jackets with badges that shouted “I ♥ …

If you’ve not headed off to a muddy field in Somerset but still want some live music this weekend, then fear not! There are plenty of muddy fields in London to enjoy instead. Twickenham is the place of action for Bon Jovi fans today and …