Music

Katzenjammer

11 Sep 2008

Katzenjammer

The Four Hands on One Piano Music & Comedy Duo.

Katzenjammer, the UK's favourite mad piano virtuosos, are back in London for the first time since their launch at the Royal Opera House! Come and join them for an unforgettable night of the world's greatest music mixed with utter nonsense, including special appearances by the Simpsons, a first division concert pianist, and just wait 'til you see what they do with a hoover!

Out of Slavery - Gala Night

28 Sep 2008

Out of Slavery

A memorable evening of music and dance celebrating the abolition of the slave trade, to raise funds for the Ghana charity Ashanti Development.

Royal Ballet dancers including Mara Galeazzi, Yuhui Choe, Thomas Whitehead and Sergei Polunin, come together with Agnes Lopez Rio, Antoine Vereecken and Neil Brown from Wayne McGregor / Random Dance, to present a rich variety of new and recent choreography, interwoven with music composed by ex-slaves and arrangements of spirituals and plantation songs, played by Robert Gibbs, Adrian Bradbury, Oliver Davies and Henry Roche.

Dennis Locorriere - The True Voice of Doctor Hook

12 Oct 2008

Dennis

DENNIS LOCORRIERE is one of the last great undimmed American heroes.
Without reservation he still has one of the finest voices around, impassioned heartbreak and lost innocence… As the lead singer of Dr Hook, one of the biggest bands across the world in the seventies and eighties, Dennis Locorriere is THAT beautiful voice instantly recognised the world over.

Mitch Benn and the Distractions

15 Oct 2008

Mitch Benn

From BBC Radio 4's 'The Now Show' and 'Crimes Against Music' and BBC1's 'The One Show', 'The Country’s leading musical satirist' (The Times) is back on tour with his band. Following the release of his latest single Sing Like An Angel.

Neil Innes and Fatso

17 Oct 2008

Neil Innes

An obesity time bomb no one should miss!

An evening of music and merriment with material drawn from Fatso, The Rutles, Rutland Weekend Television, Monty Python and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, featuring original members Neil Innes, Brian Hodgson, John Halsey, Billy Bremner and Roger Rettig.

Mike Batt

27 Oct 2008

Mike Batt

Mike Batt is one of Britain's most successful songwriters and record producers, having composed and produced both pop and classical hits for many artists from Art Garfunkel to Vanessa Mae and Cliff Richard. He is also Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, the body that represents UK’s record companies. He wrote and produced 'Bright Eyes, - Art Garfunkel's international number one single, and collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the song 'Phantom of The Opera'. He has won five Ivor Novello Awards (the UK's songwriting 'Oscar').

Eliza Carthy

1 Nov 2008

Eliza Carthy

A truly inventive and innovative singer and fiddle-player, Eliza Carthy is a gifted musical conceptualist confirming her position as, arguably, the most impressive and engaging performer of a generation.

For her new tour, Eliza is accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and Phil Alexander (Salsa Celtica) on keyboards / piano accordion. Eliza will showcase original material from her album Dreams of Breathing Underwater. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this highly original, self-penned music.