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Vieux Farka Touré, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Every now and then, if you’re very lucky, you get to witness a live performance that blows everything else away. A gig that’s so inspiring it leaves you with a lasting smile etched on your face and a burning desire to download every track the artist has ever recorded. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Vieux Farka Touré.
Shapely Ankle Preferred, By Francesca Beauman
Sunday 05 February 2012
History is just a series of dates
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The 10 best Calendars
Thursday 22 December 2011
Whether you like poetry, pop stars or polar bears, with this selection you can make 2012 the year you get organised
Laura Marling, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester<br/>Glen Campbell, BBC Radio Theatre, London
Sunday 23 October 2011
Laura Marling's cathedral gig delivers great acoustics, but her dreamy songs are not as uplifting as Glen Campbell's final tour
The Barometer: Worship; Friends; Jamie N Commons; Joker ft Buggsy, Shadz, Scarz and Double; Toy; Peace; Massive Attack vs Burial; Jodie Marie; Grimes
Friday 21 October 2011
What's hot on our playlist
Music & Me: Missing Andy
Monday 05 September 2011
Essex five-piece Missing Andy finished as runners-up in the Sky1 talent competition Must Be The Music. Comprising Alex Greaves (vocals), Rob Jones (bass), Jon Sharpe (keyboards), Steve Rolls (guitar) and Elliot Richardson (drums), they released their debut album The Greatest Show On Earth – Act I in October 2010. The band’s single “The Way We’re Made (Made In England)” reached no.38 in the UK singles chart.
Reading Festival, Little John's Farm, Reading
Sunday 04 September 2011
Jarvis Cocker and his band were among the stars of the 90s making a comeback at Reading, alongside a spectral appearance by Kurt Cobain
Laura Marling - All hail the Queen of Folk
Friday 02 September 2011
Laura Marling is the most gifted singer-songwriter working today. And with her third album, she's set for mainstream success, says Andy Gill
Don't look back in hunger: Musicians reveal their favourite foods in Rockstar Cookbook
Friday 02 September 2011
Who would have thought that bad boy musician Noel Gallagher once had a Yorkshire Tea habit? Or that Razorlight partly chose to sign with Universal because the label took them out for a better dinner than their rivals? Both feature in Love Music Love Food – the Rockstar Cookbook, published in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Brad Paisley, O2, London<br/>Death in Vegas, Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Sunday 21 August 2011
Paisley is a defiant proponent of guns'n'trucks country-and-western
Positivus Festival, Salacgriva, Latvia
Tuesday 26 July 2011
"To sit down in a muddy, wet field is quite something," says James' Tim Booth, grinning at his dutiful audience. All sat down. "We haven't had anyone sit down in 12 years." Latvia loves James. Who knew? The indie veterans played at the first Positivus five years ago to 4,000 revellers. The largest festival in the Baltics now attracts 20,000 people to this remote forest in Salacgriva (pop. 3,467), nestled next to the beach. It feels like Latitude by the sea, and the line-up is strong.
Shaky future for festivals as fans shun blasts from the past
Monday 20 June 2011
Glastonbury's acts will play this weekend to packed crowds but a raft of the country's other music festivals are floundering, as agents struggle to sell tickets for well below their asking price.
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