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EAR Interview: Renell Shaw

16 artists are being nurtured by the Southbank Centre as Emerging Artists in Residence in what they’re styling an “eclectic hub for music and performance”. Keeping you ahead of the curve, we’re getting closer to this multi-talented bunch of singer-songwriters, rappers, MCs and beatboxers, spoken …

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EAR Interview: Ayanna Witter Johnson

16 artists are being nurtured by the Southbank Centre as Emerging Artists in Residence in what they’re styling an “eclectic hub for music and performance”. Keeping you ahead of the curve, we’re getting closer to this multi-talented bunch of singer-songwriters, rappers, MCs and beatboxers, spoken …

Watch Out For These Ere EARS!

We’ve been enthusing about this talented Southbank Centre collective, picking them off one by one to profile and promote their talents via individual interviews but these guys will really be snap, crackle and popping in 09, completely taking over the Royal Festival Hall on 27 …

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EAR Interview: IronBraydz

16 artists are being nurtured by the Southbank Centre as Emerging Artists in Residence in what they’re styling an “eclectic hub for music and performance”. Keeping you ahead of the curve, we’re getting closer to this multi-talented bunch of singer-songwriters, rappers, MCs and beatboxers, spoken …

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EAR Interview: Mieko Shimizu

16 artists are being nurtured by the Southbank Centre as Emerging Artists in Residence in what they’re styling an “eclectic hub for music and performance”. Keeping you ahead of the curve, we’re getting closer to this multi-talented bunch of singer-songwriters, rappers, MCs and beatboxers, spoken …

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EAR Interview: Catherine A.D.

16 artists are being nurtured by the Southbank Centre as Emerging Artists in Residence in what they’re styling an “eclectic hub for music and performance”. Keeping you ahead of the curve, we’re getting closer to this multi-talented bunch of singer-songwriters, rappers, MCs and beatboxers, spoken …

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EAR Interview: Rizwan Ahmed

16 artists are being nurtured by the Southbank Centre as Emerging Artists in Residence in what they’re styling an “eclectic hub for music and performance”. Keeping you ahead of the curve, we’re getting closer to this multi-talented bunch of singer-songwriters, rappers, MCs and beatboxers, spoken …

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The Book Grocer

Gift-giving season is grand (books in the book grocer’s stocking [if the grinch banker doesn't steal Christmas]), but when it comes to unadulterated bibliophilia, it’s autumn that sets our hearts aflutter. With literature festivals ongoing all over the country and a rapid rollout of the …

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EAR Interview: Yemisi Blake

In 2007, a Southbank Centre project “Aftershock London” harnessed the raw energy and fresh talent of local musicians and performers to collaborate under the artistic leadership of Nitin Sawhney and stage an event at the Royal Festival Hall. The 16 artists involved are now being …

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Londonist Live: Catherine A.D. @ Bush Hall

London girl Catherine Anne Davies has had some outstanding press, so with high hopes we attended her gig at Bush Hall on Thursday night. A fair size audience, made up largely of young indie chicks and industry heads, demonstrated Catherine’s growing popularity – a singer …

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Ow-ral Grief

Londoners get quite passionate about music, it seems. But not always the right sort of passionate. A row over reggae music (too loud? wrong artists? Londonist would really like to know more about this) left one builder with a boom-boxed head and another with a …