Saturday, May 18, 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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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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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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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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Hometown heroes Ezio are back at The Junction this month for their now-traditional December show that’s as much part of Christmas in Cambridge as panto at the Arts Theatre, carols at King’s and mass displays of office-related drunkenness along St Andrew’s Street. The band’s mainstays Ezio Lunedei and Mark ‘Booga’ Fowell have recently started planning [...]
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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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Sad, funny, intense, bizarre, fascinating… welcome to the quirky, twisted sweep of Melingo’s wry bohemian universe – a fabulous, boozy, theatrical milieu where Tolstoy, Kafka, Piaf, Brecht, Waits and Cohen might find solace and unsettled lodging. To be Melingo, one must walk the streets sniffing out poetry like a bloodhound. One must dance like a [...]
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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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Bellowhead have been called – more than once, several times in fact, and by people who know these things – the best live band in the country. And anyone who has seen them, perhaps at the Cambridge Folk Festival, will certainly attest to the fact that this eleven-strong, multi-talented musical supergroup led by John Spiers [...]
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