Thursday, May 23, 2013
For a spot of out-and-out romance on Valentine’s weekend, why not join British concert pianist Warren Mailley-Smith for an evening of candlelight, bubbly and romantic piano music amid stunning surroundings. Warren was born in Earith, in Cambridgeshire, and had his first piano lessons there as a small boy of four. He visited Ely Cathedral with [...]
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Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media. The exhibition includes an original in watercolour pastel from the [...]
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A bit of an Untouchables-type scenario, although instead of Prohibition-era Chicago, this cops vs mobsters thriller is set in 1940s Los Angeles. Sean Penn plays gangster kingpin Mickey Cohen, who pretty much has the town sewn up. His nefarious earnings from substances, arms, vice and gambling are enabled by the complicity of the various cops, [...]
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Funeral For A Friend’s sixth album ‘Conduit’ is the follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed ‘Welcome Home Armageddon’, an album which saw the band approach their music with renewed vigour following the addition of new members Gav Burrough and Richard Boucher. ‘Conduit’ also features the addition of drummer Pat Lundy (previously of Rise To Remain) following [...]
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Tiptoe along the sparkling frosty path to the enchanted Neon Moon Burlesque and Cabaret Club Midnight Garden Ball. Once again The Neon Moon Burlesque and Cabaret Club allows you exclusive access to the lavish heart of wonderful Anstey Hall. Themed for your inspiration, discover the glittering spectres that appear at the thirteenth hour! Gasp at [...]
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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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Coming to the Corn Exchange at the start of February is a stage show that will have people under the age of about seven going slightly berserk with excitement. Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, as parents of younger children will probably know, is one of the most popular TV programmes for little’uns on Channel 5, [...]
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One of the bands leading the vanguard of new British jazz over recent years have been Empirical, who since 2007 have been wowing audiences with their sound, which allies a contemporary approach with distinct nods to the great heritage of jazz. This month the fourpiece are playing for Cambridge Modern Jazz Club in the inimitable [...]
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If there’s one thing above all that Cambridge is famous for at Christmas time, it surely must be the annual carol-fest that takes place in the grand setting of King’s College Chapel on Christmas Eve. As ever, the iconic building will be filled by beautiful choral voices from 15:00 when a selection of modern and [...]
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