Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Portland Arms on Mitcham’s Corner is the scene for a night featuring four – yes four – intriguing performers on 18th of February under the collective title of Swiftsgreen Records. Lester J Allen is a Luton-born-singer-songwriter whose music is heavily autobiographical, much of it exploring his own real-life issues with mental health. Also on [...]
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Cambridge Art Salon is a relatively new addition to the city’s visual arts scene, being an art gallery situated within an old motorbike showroom on Cromwell Road that is available as an art space for all sectors of the community. They’ve already held a series of exciting exhibitions, workshops and public art sessions, and this [...]
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Quick, send for the grandparents – it’s a half-term emergency! If you’re looking for ways to keep your kids entertained during their week’s school holiday (or before) check out some of these fantastic shows taking place in Cambridge this month… BOB THE BUILDER Bob The Builder must surely be Britain’s most optimistic and cheerily efficient [...]
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The success of Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends is one of the most unlikely musical stories of the last couple of years. They’re a group of genuine Cornish blokes, who met up on a Friday night down at the quayside in the small fishing village of Port Isaac, to sing a few sea shanties and traditional [...]
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You may not be that familiar with the name Fin Greenall, but if you’ve got a pair of ears there’s a good chance you’ll have heard some of his music over the course of the last years. The word versatile doesn’t really do this west Country-born singer-songwriter justice. He started out his musical life in [...]
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Declan Donnellan is one of the UK’s most acclaimed theatre directors. His company Cheek By Jowl, which he formed with Nick Ormerod in 1981 is recognised across the world as one of the true innovators of theatre to have emerged in the last 30 years, bringing a new intensity to many of the classic plays [...]
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Julian Lloyd Webber is one of the UK’s most recognisable classical musicians. An acclaimed cellist, during his career which spans more than three decades, he has worked with everyone from the London Symphony Orchestra to Elton John. This year he becomes the musician in residence at the Corn Exchange, and will kick off his tenure [...]
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The new year at Cambridge Arts Theatre kicks off – and kicks off is a highly appropriate phrase – with one of the most celebrated voices in the world of sports commentary. John Motson (Tues 24 Jan. £12.50-£22.50), commonly known in the footballing fraternity simply as ‘Motty’ will be appearing at the Arts Theatre this [...]
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After months of hard grafting behind the graffiti sign that has formed the front of The Fountain recently, it is finally time for its grand reopening. Since starting their large refurbishment project many months ago, The Fountain has shut and opened various floors at various times to allow it to continue trading but on Wednesday [...]
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Following the success of his muscular 2009 re-imagining of Conan Doyle’s Victorian sleuth, Guy Ritchie is sticking to the formula for this entertaining sequel. This time around the bohemian scientist/crimefighting genius Holmes (Downey Jr) and moustachioed sidekick Dr Watson (Law) become embroiled with their arch-nemesis, the chillingly sociopathic Professor Moriarty (Harris) following the suspicious death [...]
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