Saturday, May 18, 2013
Local charity Cambridge Past, Present and Future (CambridgePPF) has created a varied calendar of events this February to help you learn new skills and get more out of the countryside. Coton Reserve will be a hive of activity as the Rangers showcase orienteering as a different way of exploring the countryside and explain how vegetation [...]
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Cambridge is a great place to live if you’re a fan of real ale, with plenty of good ale pubs, micro-breweries, and of course, towering above it all, the Cambridge Beer Festival on Jesus Green every summer. But if you can’t wait until late May, then the Cambridge Winter Ale Festival should keep you going [...]
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Around the end of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s, there was a burgeoning music scene centred around the university city of Canterbury. During this era, musicians from different backgrounds – jazz, rock and avant-garde – started playing together in innovative ways, which many regard as Ground Zero for the progressive rock scene [...]
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The atmospheric Leper Chapel off Newmarket Road is one of the most ancient buildings still standing in the city of Cambridge, and – so the story goes – one of the most haunted. It’s a fitting location then, for an evening of seasonal shivers this month, when local performer Robert Lloyd Parry welcomes the brave-hearted [...]
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Birmingham-based art rockers Peace have had a good year so far, supporting the likes of Mystery Jets and the Vaccines, releasing a well-regarded debut EP ‘Delicious’ and generally being compared in favourable terms to anyone and everyone from Vampire Weekend or Foals to Arctic Monkeys, but without really sounding like anyone but themselves. Jordan Worland [...]
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They’re back. Phil Oakey, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catterall – more commonly known collectively as The Human League – are on tour to mark a rather incredible 35 years since they first formed amid the industrial landscapes and soundscapes of late 1970s South Yorkshire. Their appropriately-titled XXXV tour reaches the Corn exchange in November, [...]
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There’s a rich array of classical music on offer in Cambridge this autumn. Andrew Burton picks out some of the highlights. The Cambridge Classical Concert Series is increasingly popular, as anyone who attended any of last year’s sell-out concerts will testify. The 2012/13 series, proudly sponsored by Elms Cambridge BMW, opens on Friday 26 October [...]
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Victor Frankenstein is an enthusiastic young science geek whose best pal in the whole world is his faithful bulldog Sparky. When Sparky heads off for the great Dog Pound In The Sky in unfortunate circumstances, Victor chooses to put his burgeoning scientific skills to the test, and attempts to harness electricity to bring his beloved [...]
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It’s been quite a meteoric year for Theme Park. Not much more than 12 months ago they played their first gig together in their current incarnation. Now look at them – the London threepiece who play upbeat, danceable, literate indie rock (that has been likened to Talking Heads), have played numerous festivals, have appeared alongside [...]
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October! More Cambridge gigs than you can shake a rhythm stick at! Here are a few to look out for… KATZENJAMMER Hyperactive Nordic women, who’ve gone down a treat at the Folk Festival and Lodestar in recent times. Thurs 25 Oct, £9 adv. Junction, Clifton Way. Katzenjammer go mad in Scandinavia… AL LEWIS Singer-songwriter from [...]
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